Benefit factsheets are available at the Territorial Local Authority level at this website http://www.msd.govt.nz/about-msd-and-our-work/publications-resources/statistics/benefit/tla-factsheets.html However, following the incorporation of the Auckland Supercity what were once TLA's in the Auckland region have become Auckland Local Boards and it seems that benefit numbers in these areas are no longer available at the listed website.

Auckland City contains a large and diverse proportion of New Zealand's population. Without benefit numbers at a finer geographic resolution it is difficult to understand any changes or the impact of social welfare policy on this level.

Including Auckland Local Board benefit factsheets in the TLA dataset would improve the continuity of this dataset and permit finer resolution analysis.