Student loans
Sarah Allison made this Official Information request to Inland Revenue Department
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From: Sarah Allison
Dear Inland Revenue Department,
Please provide a breakdown of the number of New Zealanders who currently have a student loan about 60,000 NZD. Please group the data in 5k bands (i.e. 60,000-65,-0000 right through to 250,000+).
If possible (i.e. if both technically possible and not too demanding of staff time) please also provide a gender breakdown, ethnicity breakdown and domestic vs overseas status.
Yours faithfully,
Sarah Allison
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Inland Revenue Department
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Dear Sarah Allison,
Thank you for your request made under the Official Information Act 1982,
received on 21 May 2024.
The Ministry of Education publishes annually statistics relating to the
Student Loan Scheme, including a breakdown of the number of borrowers in
5k income bands.
This data can be found by downloading the data set on the right hand side
of the following page:
[1]https://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/publ...
The relevant table for you would be the tab “F10”, which outlines the
number of borrowers, broken down in 5k income bands and whether the
borrower is a New Zealand Based Borrower, or an Overseas Based Borrower.
At higher borrowing amounts 10K bands or more are used due to small
numbers of borrowers in these bands and the need to preserve
confidentiality.
Information on the gender borrowers identify with and ethnicity is not
held by Inland Revenue. Data on gender and ethnicity and length of time
to repay loans is captured in the data set mentioned above (tab T6, T7).
This data is extracted by the Ministry of Education from the Stats NZ
Integrated Data Infrastructure.
Can you please let me know if this information is sufficient for your
request.
Jamie Robinson (he/him)
Governance and Ministerial Services | Inland Revenue - Te Tari Taake
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Inland Revenue Department
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Kia ora Sarah,
Please see attached Inland Revenue’s response to your Official Information
Act request received 21 May 2024.
Ngâ mihi
Jamie Robinson (he/him)
Governance and Ministerial Services | Inland Revenue - Te Tari Taake
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