Annual Enterprise Survey 2010

Change to Auckland councils in Local Authority data Several Auckland councils merged on 1 November 2010, which is after the AES 2010 financial year. Because of the merger many of the councils provided financial statements for a 16-month period (1 July 2009 – 31 October 2010) in the 2010 Local Authority Census (LAC), rather than the usual 12-month period. This change in reporting caused a discontinuity in the time series of the functional splits of LAC data used in the AES between the 2009 and 2010 financial years. See the 'Data quality' section of Local Authority Financial Statistics: Year ended June 2010 for further information. Changes to agricultural data The administrative data source (IR10) is the primary source used for capturing the agricultural, forestry and fishing division (ANZSIC06 division A). Therefore modelling is used to calculate additions and disposals (see point 5 in the 'Design issues' section below). The modelling of IR10 data is currently under review so additions and disposals of fixed assets have been suppressed from all agricultural tables in the AES 2010 release. en-NZ