Work-related injury claims 2018 data collection

Reference period This release contains provisional statistics for work-related claims for injuries in the 2018 calendar year. It also includes final statistics for injuries in the 2017 calendar year. Both of these are as reported by 14 April 2019. Data sources Data on claims for work-related injuries is from the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC). All claims are included under the calendar year when the injury occurred. 2018 figures are provisional; final figures for 2018 will be published in 2020. Claims for fatal work-related injuries can take up to two years to be finalised. Figures for the number of full-time equivalent (FTEs) are sourced from the Household Labour Force Survey (HLFS) and are used to calculate incidence rates. We also refer to figures from the 2013 Census and the HLFS within the release. Comparability with previous work-related claims releases Due to various updates and revisions to the work-related claims data, we advise not to compare release publications between different years. These include: Error in the work-related claims releases: 2014, 2015 and 2016 ACC Accredited Employers Programme (AEP) claim information was added into the Injury data – work-related claims releases published from 2015. In 2018, an error was found where claims made under AEP incorrectly included ‘non-accepted’ claims. The inclusion of these non-accepted claims caused the total number of claims made per year to be over counted by approximately 2.6% on average each year. This impacted the previous releases: Injury statistics - work-related claims: 2016, published 31 August 2017, Injury statistics - work-related claims: 2015, published 28 November 2016, Injury statistics - work-related claims: 2014, published 15 October 2015. The data was revised and corrected for the injury data – work related claims: 2017 release. Consequently, the trend data reported in these tables have been updated and are now different to data published since last year. As a result, we do not recommend comparing the results from Injury statistics – work-related claims: 2017 and work-related claims: 2018 with any of the previous releases. Household labour force survey redevelopment The Household Labour Force Survey (HLFS) was redeveloped in 2016. Due to the HLFS redevelopment, caution should be used when comparing rates from before the redevelopment with rates after the redevelopment. See the HLFS redevelopment effect on incidence rates item for more information. en-NZ