December 23, 2011

Net immigration figures

Now that the election is over and the question is less urgently political, it might be safe to ask why the NZ media is so fixated on Australia.

NZ net emigration figures for  November have just been released and widely reported on.  At least, net emigration to Australia has been widely reported on.  Total net emigration last month (50 people) hasn’t made the news anywhere except New York.

I’m sure I’m not the only person moving to NZ from somewhere other than Australia who wonders why we don’t count.

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Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »