Following the decommissioning of the Productivity Commission website (productivity.govt.nz) the Treasury has released a data file that maps the productvity.govt.nz URLs of migrated web pages and files (primarily PDFs and MS Excel files) to their new URLs on the Treasury (treasury.govt.nz) website. There are 4057 URLs recorded and mapped in the data file.
The purpose of the data file release is to support researchers and other stakeholders of the Productivity Commission who may have cited the Commission's inquiry reports, submissions received, research papers and corporate documents and need to know whether or not they remain in the public domain, and if so at what new URL.
The Productivity Commission was established by the New Zealand Productivity Commission Act in December 2010 and disestablished by the New Zealand Productivity Commission Act Repeal Act 2024 in February 2024. The Treasury now redirects all productivity.govt.nz web traffic to a dedicated landing page where legacy Productivity Commission content is available: https://www.treasury.govt.nz/information-and-services/nz-economy/productivity/productivity-commission-2011-2024.
For each legacy Productivity Commission URL a presumed National Digital Heritage Archive (NDHA) snapshot URL is supplied. Not all Productivity Commission pages eg news items and blog posts or files eg images migrated to the Treasury website. The National Library catalogue entry for the NDHA snaphots of the Productivity Commission website is at https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22985457.
The Treasury web page providing context for the data release and an explanation of the data files column headers, format, scope and quaility issues is at https://www.treasury.govt.nz/publications/data/productivity-commission-website-urls-mapped-treasury-website-urls.
