Stand Up and be Counted! (Canterbury) Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 3/5/2013
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size: other (other)

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Geocache Description:


5th of March 2013 is Census Night in New Zealand. Census information is used for planning vital things like schools, allocation of healthcare funding, and so on. New Zealand hosts a Census every 5 years, however the last one was in 2006 due to the February 22nd Earthquake.


I've been interested in the Census since I first found out about it. I remember us sitting around the table filling it in, and I think I ran upstairs to do my own - well the questions I knew the answers too, before bringing it downstairs for help with the rest - and then I got told that I shouldn't be using pencil on an official document by my mum, and I had to re write the whole thing in pen! And last census, I also remember getting very sad at the fact that I couldn't fill in the '15 and over' section, as I was only 14! But this time round I will be filling the whole form in! :)

To solve this puzzle shouldn't be too difficult. - And the hide should be trivial once you get to GZ, though you may need a tool of some form to retrieve the nano.
You will need to use the Stats Maps tool, which is based on 2013 Census data to answer a few questions... nothing too tricky! :)


2013 Maps:
The median age of Oaklands is 44.A
Aidanfield had a median income of $3B,000
Cathedral Square had a population of 50C
The median age of Jellie Park was 3D.8
Aranui had a median income of $19,E00
Avonhead had 130F dwellings
Christchurch City has a population of 341,G69
The median age of Riccarton West is 2H.6

If you are interested, there are also other maps that you can explore, not just of population and dwellings, but also: age and sex, ethnicity, etc, here.

So the cache is not located at the posted coords, though that would be fitting, but at:

S 43 3(A).(B-3)(C-)(D)
E 172 3(E).(F)(G+1)(H)


Oh, and you can check your answers here if you think you have them right.

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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