This presentation was made by Struan Little, New-Zealand, at the 40th Annual Meeting of OECD Senior Budget Officials (SBO) held in Tallinn, Estonia, on 5-6 June 2019

1. New Zealand’s Integrated Data
Infrastructure
Presentation to OECD Senior Budget Officials
Struan Little, Deputy Secretary, Budget and Public Services
5 June 2019

2. © The Treasury
The Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI)

3. The basics of Treasury advice

4. The future cost to government of children with a
care history - building the case for change
0.0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1.0
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
Age
Custodial
sentence
Child protection
notification
Child protection
investigation
(Note: Presentation is an illustration based on real data but modified to prevent identification)
Millions ($)
Youth Justice
residental care
Average
Income
support

5. • Family Start is an intensive programme aimed at pregnant mothers
and families with pre-school aged children at risk of adverse outcomes
• Operates in selected regions only
• Expanded to 14 new areas between 2005-07
• Quasi-experimental evaluation of impacts
• Reduced overall infant mortality by 0.5 -2.6
per 1,000 children in the first year of life
Expansion to new areas announced in 2017
Understanding what works - Evaluation of
the Family Start home visiting programme

6. Future directions
• Incremental progress
• Impact evaluation is still very constrained by the lack of admin data on
who participated in most social services & programmes delivered by
NGO’s under contract to government agencies
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Number of new IDI projects
• Initially designed for
research purposes –
now evolving to be part
of the Official Stats
System (e.g. poverty
measurement, Census
2018). This poses
challenges and requires
further investrnent.