Historical public holidays back to 1980

4 July 2015 at 17:09 (9 years ago)

Hi there. It's easy to find out when public holidays were or will be observed, for 2001-2021: http://employment.govt.nz/er/holidaysandleave/publicholidays/publicholidaydates/index.asp Can you please also make available the historical observed dates of public holidays going back to 1980? Surely somebody wrote these down somewhere for employment compliance purposes, and can make them available digitally.

Dataset listing

Opening this data would solve the problem of…

For reporting of historical productivity or financial performance, it is important to know which days people weren't working and banks/sharemarkets were closed.

Currently, there is no discoverable digital source of this information back in time, beyond 2001.

Opening this data would solve this problem by…

Saving individuals and organisations the effort of asking every regional council the same question, and combing through newspapers for confirmation.

Response from
Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment

9 July 2015 at 15:14 03:14 pm (9 years ago)

Status Dataset submitted

Comments Data is not held at MBIE for the period required but an algorithm has been created that will generate national and provincial holidays following published rules. This has been used to generate data for the period 1980 - 2020 which is being prepared for release.