What the official record says
This Act is the Data and Statistics Act . This Act comes into force on 2022 . The purpose of this Act is to— ensure that high-quality, impartial, and objective official statistics are produced relating to New Zealand to inform the public and inform decision making; and promote consistent and collaborative practices across government in order to— enable the trusted collection and use of data for the production of official statistics and for research; and minimise the burden on those providing data for the production of official statistics and for research by avoiding unnecessary duplication of requests; and improve the quality of data collected across government, and eliminate gaps in data collected, to promote its usefulness for the production of official statistics and for research; and p