IDI Guides

We have created a number of guides to help users to get started with the IDI and to understand some of the different types of data included in it. These are continually evolving and being added to, and if you have any specific requests for further guides, or indeed any useful information to share, please get in touch with us.

Getting started

• Getting started using the IDI
• IDI Spine
• Stats NZ Population Explorer user guide
• Identifying the New Zealand resident population in the IDI
• Loading your own data into the IDI
• Using SQL in the Datalab
• SQL code examples
• Shared Code
• Linkage error and linkage bias

Ethnicity

• Ethnicity and the IDI
• Māori descent

Geography

• Geographic information in IDI

Health

• Mental health and addiction information in the IDI
• Measuring new cardiovascular events in the IDI
• Using ACC claims data in the IDI
• Before School Check data in the IDI

Income

• Income measures in the IDI

Practicalities

• How to manually install a Stata plugin in the IDI

VHIN reports

• Recommendations to support the Health Research Council Assessing Committees