Statistics Act 1975
E261099
The Statistics Act 1975 is New Zealand legislation that establishes the framework for collecting, managing, and protecting official statistics, including the national census.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Statistics Act 1975 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2368341 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Statistics Act 1975 Context triple: [New Zealand census, legalBasis, Statistics Act 1975]
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A.
Population Registration Act
The Population Registration Act was a cornerstone apartheid law in South Africa that classified citizens by race to enforce systematic segregation and discrimination.
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B.
Public Records Act 1958
The Public Records Act 1958 is a key UK law that sets out how government records are created, managed, preserved, and made available to the public, forming the foundation of the modern public archives system.
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C.
Civil List Act 1952
The Civil List Act 1952 was a UK law that set out the public funding arrangements for the official expenses of the British monarch and certain members of the Royal Family.
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D.
Security Service Act 1989
The Security Service Act 1989 is a UK law that formally placed the Security Service (MI5) on a statutory footing, defining its functions, powers, and oversight arrangements.
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E.
Statistical Policy Directives
Statistical Policy Directives are authoritative U.S. federal guidelines that standardize how government agencies collect, produce, and disseminate official statistics.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Statistics Act 1975 Target entity description: The Statistics Act 1975 is New Zealand legislation that establishes the framework for collecting, managing, and protecting official statistics, including the national census.
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A.
Population Registration Act
The Population Registration Act was a cornerstone apartheid law in South Africa that classified citizens by race to enforce systematic segregation and discrimination.
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B.
Public Records Act 1958
The Public Records Act 1958 is a key UK law that sets out how government records are created, managed, preserved, and made available to the public, forming the foundation of the modern public archives system.
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C.
Civil List Act 1952
The Civil List Act 1952 was a UK law that set out the public funding arrangements for the official expenses of the British monarch and certain members of the Royal Family.
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D.
Security Service Act 1989
The Security Service Act 1989 is a UK law that formally placed the Security Service (MI5) on a statutory footing, defining its functions, powers, and oversight arrangements.
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E.
Statistical Policy Directives
Statistical Policy Directives are authoritative U.S. federal guidelines that standardize how government agencies collect, produce, and disseminate official statistics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Act of Parliament of New Zealand
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New Zealand statute ⓘ |
| administeredBy |
Statistics New Zealand
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surface form:
Government Statistician of New Zealand
Statistics New Zealand ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
New Zealand census
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surface form:
New Zealand census of population and dwellings
businesses in New Zealand ⓘ individuals in New Zealand ⓘ official statistics in New Zealand ⓘ |
| authorizes |
compulsory collection of information for certain official surveys
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compulsory collection of information for the census ⓘ |
| contains |
penalties for unlawful disclosure of confidential statistical information
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provisions on offences for non‑compliance with statistical requirements ⓘ |
| country | New Zealand ⓘ |
| defines | official statistics in New Zealand law ⓘ |
| designates |
Statistics New Zealand
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surface form:
Statistics New Zealand as the central statistical agency
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| enactedBy | New Zealand Parliament ⓘ |
| ensures |
independence of the Government Statistician in statistical matters
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integrity of official statistics in New Zealand ⓘ |
| establishes |
framework for official statistics in New Zealand
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powers and duties of the Government Statistician ⓘ rules for the New Zealand census ⓘ |
| governs |
New Zealand census
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collection of official statistics in New Zealand ⓘ compilation of official statistics in New Zealand ⓘ dissemination of official statistics in New Zealand ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | New Zealand ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| legalStatus | in force with amendments ⓘ |
| protects |
confidentiality of business information supplied for statistics
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privacy of individuals providing information for official statistics ⓘ |
| purpose |
to protect the confidentiality of information supplied for statistical purposes
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to provide for the collection of statistical information in New Zealand ⓘ to regulate the production and dissemination of official statistics in New Zealand ⓘ |
| regulates |
confidentiality of respondents’ information
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use of information collected for statistical purposes ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
New Zealand census
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surface form:
Census of Population and Dwellings (New Zealand)
Statistics New Zealand ⓘ
surface form:
Government Statistician (New Zealand)
Statistics New Zealand ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
census law
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data confidentiality ⓘ official information collection ⓘ statistics law ⓘ |
| typeOfLaw |
administrative law
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public law ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Statistics Act 1975 Description of subject: The Statistics Act 1975 is New Zealand legislation that establishes the framework for collecting, managing, and protecting official statistics, including the national census.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.