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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Madeleine Chapman reflects on the week that was.

The Weekend: What would you march for?

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Is there any statistical proof behind the stereotype that poets can't drive? A non-driving poet attempts to find out. 

Can poets drive? A sociocultural investigation

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A close read of three seven-lines poems by Zen teacher Richard von Sturmer.

How to read a poem: selections from Slender Volumes by Richard von Sturmer

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'I don't know what the chant in the second half of this song means, but by golly it slaps hard and feels good!'

‘By golly it slaps’: Arthur Ahbez’s perfect weekend playlist

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The Friday Poem: ‘Boyhood’ by Art Nahill

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Dolly-mania, new Murakami, and a brilliant local debut. 

The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending November 22

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A cat and mouse thriller that's worth putting your phone down for. 

Review: The Day of the Jackal is a riveting and ridiculous ride

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Treasury says the recession will be deeper and last longer than predicted.

Hold the roosters, no economic dawn yet

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Can a united front hold through to election time?

This week three parties stood together – can they withstand the storm to come?

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

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The Losi Filipo case has brought renewed attention to New Zealand’s chronic problem with binge drinking and alcohol-fuelled assault. Three Figure.NZ charts take a look at our heaviest drinkers.

Want to know more about our drinking habits? Check out 

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

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Chart of the WeekOctober 3, 2016

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

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