Number of motor vehicles
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This variable indicates the number of motor vehicles available to households for private use. It is used for planning transport services.
The current data has categories of: none, one, two, and three or more. It has been suggested previously that the top category should be raised to five or more motor vehicles. Another possibility is to raise it to four or more motor vehicles.
Raising the top category would allow more precise measurement of car ownership, and the effects of this on demand for road space. Knowing the actual number of vehicles is important when looking at parking provision in urban planning.
Another issue raised previously is that this data relates to vehicles for private use, and excludes those that are for work only – yet uses of this data include measuring demand for road space and the effects of this on road congestion.
Other suggested changes for this variable include:
- collecting this information at the individual level instead of the household level and
- also collecting information on other forms of transport.
Our current recommendations relating to number of motor vehicles
- We recommend that number of motor vehicles be included in the 2018 Census.
- We welcome feedback on whether any changes are needed for this variable, such as raising the top category.
See our preliminary view of 2018 Census content (pages 59-60) for a more detailed discussion on number of motor vehicles information.
See 2013 Census information by variable for information on the number of motor vehicles variable.
Guy Marriage Sun 3 May 2015 5:27AM
Excellent comment Max
Max Dillon Coyle Sun 3 May 2015 9:03PM
Thankyou Guy, as currently the only submitter on this question I will be interested to see if my comments are taken as 100% of community feedback and initiated! :)
Must congratulate the 2018 Census team on their use of Loomio, think its a great way of not only engaging the populace but also ensuring NZ's major stats collection is as up to date and through as it should be
John Forne Mon 4 May 2015 5:47AM
Hi Max
Thanks for your suggestion and the positive feedback. Yes, we're listening :) We're really interested in hearing people's ideas and making the content of the 2018 valuable.
Keep it up!
Guy Marriage Mon 4 May 2015 5:50AM
John - do you have a link to the 2013 form where this is asked? It's obviously not on the personal / individual form - where is it?
John Forne Mon 4 May 2015 10:47AM
Thanks Guy
Sorry, the question (Q.18) about the number of motor vehicles was on the Dwelling form (not individual form)... see
http://www.stats.govt.nz/Census/2013-census/info-about-the-census/forms-guidenotes.aspx
Guy Marriage Mon 4 May 2015 10:55AM
Thanks John. Related to that - why are motor bikes at present not counted? Why not simply ask for information on all the available forms of transport at that residence - i.e. cars, bikes, motorbikes, trucks, vans etc?
Benjamin Molineaux Mon 4 May 2015 11:29PM
I would like a sub question related to having access to or owning zero motor vehicles, about the desire/wish/need/want to own or have access to one. Because I understand this question is used in deprivation cals I think having access to or owning zero PMV's is a choice for an increasing number of people; particularly in urban environments. For example, I live and work in the CBD, and don't own one, don't want one, and don't need one.
For transport planning a question linked to 0, about the desire to have a PMV, may provide insight into those people who are likely to obtain a car in the future should their situaiton change, and those that make a decision to not have one.
Guy Marriage Tue 5 May 2015 1:45AM
For the moderator - you may be interested to read the discussion on the subject over on Transport Blog relating to travel: http://transportblog.co.nz/2015/05/02/what-to-ask-at-the-next-census/
Max Dillon Coyle Tue 5 May 2015 2:53AM
Agree with Benjamin and also Guy's call to checkout the discussion on the transport blog page. Consistently the stats we collect are influenced by the prevailing policies of national and local governments, in this instance increasing the roading budget for PMV's.
Max Dillon Coyle · Fri 1 May 2015 4:49AM
Why only number of motor vehicles? Number of bicycles for transport can be an essential indicator for local bodies and government for allocation of transport budget and zoning issues.