Fascinating numbers

February 1, 2010 by
Filed under: Getting to New Zealand, Hubby's Views, NZIS & Immigration issues 

Well, okay, perhaps not for a lot of people.  However, I’m one of those sick puppies (meow) who finds spreadsheets and numbers quite fascinating when they tell you something interesting.

So much to my surprise, we found at the weekend that Immigration now have a statistics page on their website.   Seems to have been there for a while too.  So kudos to INZ for releasing the information as part of open Govt.

So what can these numbers tell us?

Well for starters download the Excel files, since you can play with the numbers.  Thankfully someone at INZ knows how to use Excel and has created lots of pivot tables – yippee.  Although they’ve not created enough graphs I think.  Graphics, pictures, we need to see more coloured lines.

So, if you really want to find out how many parents, originally resident in the UK made an application for NZ residency, via the London branch in a random month anytime in the last 14 years – you can!  Download R6 – Residence applications accepted for processing.

Want to know how many of those people applying got approved or declined? – Download R2 Residence decisions by month.

Of course, it may have been too simple to put all those numbers into a single spreadsheet.  Still, the info is there.

So you can indeed see how many people applied from each coutry, broken down by month, and which stream, whether they were primary or secondary applicants, and whether they got accepted or not.  There’s loads more statistical info buried in them thar’ numbers, so I may start coming out with interesting factoids.  Personally, I’m interested to see if anyone from a ‘first world’ country managed to get into NZ via the ‘humanitarian’ stream – normally reserved for refugee’s of the non-economic variety.

Of course more really interesting stuff is buried in R8 – Residence applications on hand.  INZ talk a lot about having a large workload, lots of decisions to make etc.  Which they do.  How much of a workload is this?  Well take a look at R8, these are all the applications that people have made to come to NZ.  Whether or not INZ have even started working on the application or not.  One of the few graphis provided in the three noted sheets is below, ranging from July 2000 on the left through to January 2010 on the right.  {you can click on the image to load it full size}

applications on hand

Uncapped family sponsorship (non-Kiwi family of Kiwi citizens)  has grown steadly since 2000 from approx 3,000 to almost 7,000 per year.

Parent & Adult sibling capped family sponsorship applications have gone from ~4,500 to ~10,500 – with no change in the number of places made available.  And anyone wonders why there’s a queue?

For a big wow!, the Business/Skilled migrant stream peaked at a queue of ~51,500 applications at the end of 2002..  Dunno what happened there, but I’m sure gonna go find out.

Stay tuned for more (possibly useless) interesting factoids.

Related posts:

  1. Immigration reports x2
  2. Family Sponsorship: The 2 year wait Update.
  3. It’s not just us plebs that have trouble getting into NZ.
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2 Comments on Fascinating numbers

  1. AMy on Wed, 3rd Feb 2010 9:01 am

    2. Interesting info! Our application is somewhere in the depths of NZIS so this interested me greatly. Husband’s minor elevated ALT blood levels (so minor it was laughable to our GP) have been with a medical assessor since September 2000. Seems ridiculous, no?

    Just curious, is it just me or are some of these charts really difficult to figure out (i.e. residence applications on hand is blank). Trying to make sense of it all!

  2. Avalon on Wed, 3rd Feb 2010 8:16 pm

    3. OH MY GOD!

    I am actually speechless.

    Nearly 10 years? I really do have absolutely no idea what to say about this! Other than get a lawyer :)

    Um- no idea if it will help – but I am still allowed to give advice on health – so you can always email me for help on that – even if I cant help with the application itself. And I probably recommend a lawyer for you if you need one.

    Also, check out this post of you haven’t seen it:
    http://www.avalonsguide.com/anab/2009/11/medical-assessmentsback-to-the-grindstone/

    My brother had raised ALT because of Epilepsy Meds – and has just passed the medical.

    If you want some advice on the health care aspect – email me at
    avalon@avalonsguide.com

    Hugs

    Hxxx

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