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Tçnâ koe Chris

Thank you for your email of 17 June 2024, asking for the following
information under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act):

Please provide machine readable datasets in csv format that shows the
total number of people by age and gender enrolled with the NZ health
system that are vaccinated with a specified number of COVID vaccine doses
from 1 Jan 2020 through to the present day as at the end of each calendar
month.
Where a person dies in a particular month then they would not be counted
in the subsequent month as being enrolled in the NZ health system – and
therefore not be included in the counts in each dataset after that month.
Please provide the dataset specified below for the people who received at
least 1 dose (including those people who eventually had more than one
dose), then another extract of the dataset for those people who have
received at least 2 doses, another for “at least 3 doses”, a 4th dataset
for “at least 4 doses” and a final dataset for those who have received 5
or more doses.
The columns of the dataset would be expected to include:
1) Date: Date at the end of the month with the earliest date being 31 Jan
2020. That is, the first year of data will give a baseline of variation by
month that subsequent years that included the vaccination programme can be
compared to and is expected to be mostly zero for each dose dataset.
2) Age: Age from birth as at the end of the month. 0 is the age up to 364
days, 1 is from 1 year to 1 year and 364 days etc. The highest age
category should be 100+
3) Gender: Male/Female/Unknown or Other
4) Number of People: Count of the population of people under the
care/enrolled in the NZ public health system who are vaccinated with the
dose number specified (eg 1+, 2+, 3+, 4+, 5+) of any of the COVID
vaccines. The number in this column will change based on the variation in
the enrolled population, the aging of the vaccinated each month and
deaths. If a subsequent dose is received the person will still be counted
(eg a 2 dose person will still be counted in the "1+" dose dataset from
the point they receive their second dose).
Once a query has been written for one month, it should be able to be rerun
for each subsequent month on a programmed loop - minimising the effort
involved.
Cell obfuscation:
a) Where a cell is <5 people please populate this with "<5" for
confidentiality. 
b) True zero cells should be shown - or at least not included in the
dataset and not marked as <5.  Please state which method has been used.

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Alex

Government Services

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Kia ora Chris,
 
Thank you for your request for information regarding Vaccine datasets on
17 June 2024. Please find attached our response to your request.
 
If you have any questions, please get in touch at
[1][email address].
 
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Ngā mihi,
 
Alex
Government Services

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Kia ora Chris,
 
Thank you for your request for information regarding Vaccine datasets on
17 June 2024. Unfortunately the data extract date/time was incorrect in
the file provided to you. The date and time should read: 01/07/24 12.46pm.
This has now been amended in the attached version. We apologise for the
error.
 
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at [1]www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or by phoning 0800 802 602.
 
Ngā mihi,
 
Alex
 
Government Services

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