1. Introduction
This is the fifth annual release of the Ministry of Commerce’s Information Technology Statistics paper. It follows a special update release in October 1997 which was produced to incorporate newly released data from the 1996 Census. This paper includes:
- updated figures for IT hardware imports and exports;
- updated figures for trade in software and services and the size of the New Zealand information technology (IT) market;
- updated and revised figures for employment in segments of the IT industry;
- updated figures on the size of the Internet in New Zealand; and
- updated figures on the number of World Wide Web sites.
Also included are figures initially published in the special update from October last year for:
- those employed in the IT industry;
- those employed in the IT industry by occupation, skill level, age, sex and ethnicity;
- the number of computers in homes;
- the number of computers in New Zealand schools; and
- the number of Internet connections in schools and the number of schools that intend to connect to the Internet.
ISBN 0-478-00061-8.
This hypertext form of this paper includes the underlying data tables as well as the graphs.
1.1 Acknowledgements
The majority of the figures in this paper have been sourced from Statistics New Zealand. Other sources are credited specifically where they have been used. Some of the figures are taken from a survey of IT businesses conducted by Statistics New Zealand and jointly sponsored by the Ministry of Commerce, the Information Technology Association of New Zealand, Tradenz and Statistics New Zealand.
1.2 Defining Information Technology
As well as the traditional data processing industries, telecommunications and broadcasting are shown in many of the figures in this paper. This reflects the fact that these industries process information using technological means, and the increasingly blurred distinctions between these sectors.
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