Analytical Standards

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Analytical Standards

Appendix 1 - A guide to applying NMDS filters

Appendix 2 - EHINZ Analytical Toolkit Glossary

Appendix 3 - Communication standards

Appendix 4A - How to tell a story using statistics

Appendix 4B - Your guide to our Plain English standard

Analytical Standards - Introduction

These Analytical Standards are used by the Environmental Health Intelligence NZ (EHINZ) team when conducting and interpreting analyses, and presenting factsheets, reports, and other outputs. It draws on the standards used by the Ministry of Health (MoH) and Statistics New Zealand (StatsNZ) and aims to use Plain English principles.

The Analytical Standards is divided into three sections covering:

1. Data aquisition

1.1 Datasets and sources

1.2 Privacy and security

2. Analysis

2.1 Data cleaning and processing

2.2 Demographic groupings

2.3 Other subgroups

2.4 Analytical toolkit

3. Presentation

3.1 Data visualisation

3.2 Writing guide