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Stephen Slavo Raphael Kuzmicich, known as Steve Kuzmicich, was born on 2 November 1931 at the family home in Napier, New Zealand, the son of Stjepan Kuzmicich, an immigrant from Croatia, and Mona Smeyah who was of Danish, Lebanese and Italian descent. He attended the local Catholic convent school in Napier and completed his secondary education at St Patrick’s College after the Kuzmicich family moved to Wellington in 1939. Unable to afford a course on electrical engineering at the University of Canterbury, he studied Maths and Physics at the Victoria University of Wellington[1][2]
Kuzmicich joined the Department of Census and Statistics in 1954 and was promoted rapidly becoming Divisional Director in 1960, Assistant Government Statistician in 1964, Deputy Government Statistician in 1978 and Government Statistician in 1984.[3] He retired in December 1991.[4][5]
He began his career in the Department by developing methodology for working life tables, a method of analysing participation in the labour force pioneered by New Zealand. He was instrumental in introducing the then new technique of statistical sampling for the production of short term economic indicators and social statistics.[2][6] In the 1960s, computerisation.
became Divisional Director, responsible for machine data processing (punch card based), when the 1956 Population and Dwelling Census was still being processed. At the time the Census took four years to process on these ICT punch card machines.
- computerisation
- integrated statistical system
- marketing
Citations
edit- ^ Roberts 1999, p. 103.
- ^ a b Galvin 2018.
- ^ Lambert 1991.
- ^ Howie 1991.
- ^ Anon 1992.
- ^ Roberts 1999, p. 105.
References
edit- Roberts, H. Stanley (1999). A history of statistics in New Zealand (PDF). New Zealand Lottery Grants Board. pp. 103–111. ISBN 9780959763270 – via The New Zealand Statistical Association.
- Galvin, Vince (4 August 2018). "Obituary: Steve Kuzmicich, former Goverment [sic] Statistician". The Dominion Post/Stuff. Wellington, NZ. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
- Lambert, Max, ed. (1991). New Zealand Who’s Who 12th edition 1991. Reed Publishing. ISBN 978-0790001302 – via Knowledge Bank/Hawke's Bay Digital Archive Trust.
- Howie, Craig (11 Dec 1991). "Retiring Stats chief recalls lash of criticism". The Dominion. Wellington, NZ. p. 21. ISSN 0113-941X – via National Library of New Zealand.
- Anon (Jan–Feb 1992). "Government Statistician farewelled". Key Statistics. Department of Statistics (NZ). pp. 9–12.
Notes
edit- New Zealand Statistical Association Newsletter 62, September 2005.
- New Zealand Statistical Association Newsletter 81, June 2018
103, 105, 104, 107, 106, 109, 108, 111, 110