6 September 2023
N Brittain
[FYI request #23582 email]
Tēnā koe N Brittain
Your request for Official information, reference: HNZ00026516
Thank you for your email on 25 July 2023, asking for the following under the Official Information
Act 1982 (the Act):
”Could you please provide the latest available dataset of deaths where COVID-19 is officially
coded as the underlying cause by vaccination status, where this status is defined as:
- No doses
- Partial
- Primary Course
- 1 Booster
- 2 Boosters
- 3 Boosters”
Please see the table below which provides the number of deaths where Covid-19 is officially coded
as the underlying cause, and the vaccination status.
Covid-19 deaths by Vaccination status
(Data extracted 14.08.2023)
Vaccination status Count CountType
No doses
279
FRR3
Partial
33
FRR3
Primary course
246
FRR3
1 Booster
1122
FRR3
2 Boosters
327
FRR3
3 Boosters
27
FRR3
Note: Values of 6 and above are perturbed* under section 9(2)(a) of the Act, using fixed random
rounding to base 3 (FRR3). This entails rounding values to neighbouring multiples of 3. For
example, 11 may be rounded to 12 or 9. FRR3 is a best-practice confidentiality method
recommended by Stats NZ. You can find more information about this at www.data.govt.nz/toolkit/
privacy-and-security/understanding-data-confidentiality/data-confidentiality-principles-and-
methods-report/.
*
. Perturbation is the adding of random noise to data, and suppression is in reference to not
providing data that could compromise confidentiality
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Nāku iti noa, nā
Daniel Hirst
Group Manager - Intelligence
National Public Health Service
TeWhatuOra.govt.nz
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