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child-poverty-nz from thecolab-ai/.skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add thecolab-ai/.skills/child-poverty-nz@git:20260719.1748a98

Pins git:20260719.1748a98 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: thecolab-ai/.skills
Path: skills/child-poverty-nz/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 2
Latest version: git:20260719.1748a98, committed Jul 19, 2026
First version recorded: May 31, 2026
Size: 5,253 bytes
Repository stars: 33
License: MIT

Query official New Zealand child poverty statistics from Stats NZ — the nine Child Poverty Reduction Act measures (BHC/AHC low-income lines, material hardship, severe material hardship, DEP-17 deprivation), national rates and child numbers 2007-2025 with confidence intervals, and breakdowns by region, ethnicity (Māori, Pacific, European, Asian) and disability. Use for tasks about NZ child poverty rates, kids in hardship or deprivation, poverty by region or ethnic group, annual change, or…

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Child Poverty NZ

## Overview

Read-only CLI over Stats NZ's annual Child Poverty Reduction Act (CPRA) data
releases. Each release is a public ZIP of UTF-8 CSVs (no API key, no login, no
bot challenge). The CLI auto-discovers the latest release from the Stats NZ
CSV-files index, downloads the ZIP in memory, and parses the national and
disaggregated data files with the Python standard library only.

The nine measures use codes `MEASA`–`MEASJ` (Stats NZ skips `MEASD`). The three
**primary** legislated measures are `MEASA` (income below 50% of the median
before housing costs, moving line), `MEASB` (below 50% after housing costs,
anchored line) and `MEASC` (**material hardship**, DEP-17, lacking 6+ of 17
items). `MEASI` is **severe** material hardship (lacking 9+ items) — a subset of
`MEASC` — and `MEASJ` is the combined low-income-and-hardship measure.

## When to Use

Use this when the task involves:
- NZ child poverty rates, child numbers, or annual change for any CPRA measure
- material hardship / severe hardship / DEP-17 deprivation among children
- poverty broken down by region, ethnicity (Māori, Pacific, European, Asian), or disability
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add thecolab-ai/.skills/child-poverty-nz@sha256:355c0b3a37b3dbd2

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260719.1748a98, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_si6xvsvbz4p5kek7.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_si6xvsvbz4p5kek7)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between May 31, 2026 and Jul 19, 2026, about one every 49 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260719.1748a98 latest	2026-07-19	1748a98	5,253 B	A	view · diff
git:20260531.8c658db	2026-05-31	8c658db	4,534 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

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Source

GitHub

thecolab-ai/.skills · 33 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-12 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_si6xvsvbz4p5kek7
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=thecolab-ai/.skills/child-poverty-nz
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/355c0b3a37b3dbd272ab0e084f9030566cd15d0ab11308d114142314f21070d9

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