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Percent of New Zealand businesses by region in 2024

Usage

nz_business

Format

a simple features data frame consisting of 16 observations on 10 variables:

country

two digit country abbreviatoin "NZ"

island

the north or south island of New Zealand

region

16 regions of New Zealand

indicator

business indicator code "2024M04"

count

count of total businesses

total

total of all businesses in New Zealand

pct_business

computed as (county / total) * 100

lng

center longitude for region

lat

center latitude for region

geometry

polygons for the different named regions

Details

Outlying areas were omitted

References

Stats New Zealand. (2024). Enterprises Count (3ec6697f-2ec6-473b-ab41-a86e7de1fa9a) Dataset. https://datainfoplus.stats.govt.nz/Item/nz.govt.stats/041540ba-fc68-4497-814a-74b2cc4beffd

Massicotte P, South A (2023). rnaturalearth: World Map Data from Natural Earth. R package version 1.0.1, https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=rnaturalearth.

Examples

plot(nz_business["pct_business"], main = "Percent Business by Region")