New Zealand Historical Statistics
Early Statistical Series
Statistics of New Zealand, 1853-1872
Statistics of the Colony of New Zealand, 1873 - 1906.
Statistics of the Dominion of New Zealand, 1907 - 1920.
New Zealand Official Yearbook 1893-1998
The Official Yearbook was preceeded by various Official Handbooks which can be found shelved immediately before the Official Yearbook series.
Census Reports
Statistics of official censuses of 1858, 1861, 1864 and 1867 were published in Statistics of New Zealand. From 1871 onwards, each census has been published separately.
Compilations
Statistics of New Zealand for the Crown Colony Period, 1840 - 1852.
Bloomfield, G.T. New Zealand: a handbook of historical statistics.
Includes a wide range of tables of national historical statistics, compiled between 1840 and 1975, on topics such as population, social conditions, production, transport, trade, military, justice, prices and finance. Also lists useful references.
Thorns, David and Sedgewick, Charles. Understanding Aotearoa/New Zealand: historical statistics.
Includes statistical tables from earliest times to 1996 with chapters on population data, economic data, state revenue and expenditure, social indicators, and politics and the state. Contains analysis of the trends in the data and of the historical factors influencing the construction of the data.
Butterworth, G. Te
hurihanga o te ao Māori : te ahua o te iwi Māori kua whakatatautia
/ G. Mako.
A statistical profile of Māori society from the 1950s - 1980s.
Catalogues
New Zealand Department of Statistics. Statistical publications 1840-1980 .