Chart of the Week

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Here to top off your Halloween hangover, some grim figures on pumpkins, lollies, and child tooth decay.<br />
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Chart of the week: pumpkins, lollies, and tooth decay

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Are unions in New Zealand dwindling? With unions trending towards older workers, they may very well be.

Chart of the Week: are unions losing the young?

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They say everyone has a book in them - even assorted Real Housewives - but how many of us actually get published? And how healthy is the industry that supports our novelists, poets and non-fiction writers? Two charts from Figure.NZ take a closer look. 

Chart of the Week: Is it time to write off book publishing?

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Under the Unitary Plan at least 400,000 new homes will be built to meet the growth of Auckland over the next 30 years. But while we wait for the Plan to take effect, let's take a look at how many dwellings are being built right now. 

Chart of the Week: The Auckland building boom, or bust?

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Are we a nation of binge drinkers? This week's charts from Figure.NZ shed some light. 

Chart of the week: It’s how we’re drinking

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Three Figure.NZ charts offer an insight into the 2011 earthquake's ongoing impact on the Garden City. 

Chart of the week: The deal with Christchurch

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Working hard or hardly working? A look at who isn't participating in the labour force, and why. 

Chart of the week: real housewives and ‘real’ work

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Is New Zealand a petrolhead nation? A glance at vehicle ownership, and how it's changing.

Chart of the week: toot toot, chugga chugga

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Three Figure.NZ charts offer a snapshot of the people who work in New Zealand restaurants and bars - and where.

Chart of the week: the hospitality game

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In the second post from our new collaboration with Figure.NZ, a glance at the proportion of women bosses in New Zealand, plus how the numbers look in higher education.

Chart of the week: how many women lead NZ businesses?

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Today the Spinoff and Figure.NZ launch a new weekly feature, in the form of a chart that tells us something about New Zealand. After extensive thought, we have decided to call it the 'Chart of the Week'. The plan: to bring more data to more people, explains Lillian Grace, Figure.NZ CEO. 

Introducing: the Chart of the Week, from Figure.NZ. And a quiz, too

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To launch the new Figure.NZ feature on the Spinoff, here's how New Zealand's biggest city has increased in population, and how it is projected to increase further.

Chart of the Week: Auckland grows more populous, and older

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When the Toitū te Tiriti hīkoi hit Auckland, Aotearoa's most multicultural and (arguably) fashionable city rose to the occasion.

Toitū te Tiriti hīkoi fits: Savage style for seasoned steezers

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Dog of the month: Georgie, who would like The Spinoff to rank peanut butters

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Anna Rawhiti-Connell reflects on the week that was.

The Weekend: In defence of Auckland’s ‘incredibly’ expensive Christmas tree

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What caused a whole French village to hallucinate?

The case of the cursed bread: An excerpt from Una Cruickshank’s The Chthonic Cycle

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New Zealander Tasha Black relays what it's like in post-revolution Bangladesh from an eight-hour traffic jam in Dhaka.

The slowest city in the world is on the brink of change

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On the most extraordinary human achievements you’ll never, ever notice, and possibly shouldn’t celebrate. 

The Nobel Prize in Not Beating Up Your Kids

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'She was so right when she wrote 'I can’t help that I need it all, the primadonna life, the rise and fall' cause sometimes it really does feel like that …'

‘Theatrical, chaotic and romantic’: Heidi Simpson’s perfect weekend playlist

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A new documentary series tells the story of a former Napier councillor accused of murder in Canada. 

In Cold Water is a must-see for true crime fans

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The Friday Poem: ‘FREE TRAMPOLINE’ by Sophie van Waardenberg

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, “activist, author, journalist and very cool legend” about her book 

, and why women have been so “massively underrepresented in public debate and positions of power and influence”.

What do the numbers look like in New Zealand?

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, a snapshot of the proportion of women bosses around the country:

How does that compare with women coming through higher education?

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Chart of the WeekAugust 29, 2016

Chart of the week: how many women lead NZ businesses?

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Chart of the WeekAugust 29, 2016

Chart of the week: how many women lead NZ businesses?

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