Definition |
Number of people hospitalised for more than one day as a result of an on-road motor vehicle crash divided by vehicle-kilometres travelled (in 100 millions). Data on hospitalisations provided to MoT by NZ Health Information Service, MoH.This series has been updated. The data published prior to 2013 included only the time spent in the first stay in hospital following the incident.All hospital stays relating to an incident are now included when determining the over 1 day threshold. |
Nature of data |
Quantitative |
Primary source | Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Health |
Custodian of data |
Ministry of Transport |
URL | Data plotted here is the number of hospitalisations shown in RD056 divided by the VKTs. VKTs are from the as-yet-unpublished 2017 version of https://transport.govt.nz/assets/Uploads/Data/NZ-Vehicle-Fleet-Graphs-2016-web3.xlsx - tabs 1.4 to 1.7, column X |
Frequency | Annually from 2001 |
Disaggregation |
By Region |
Quality of the data |
Good |
Next Update | September |