New Zealand Living Standards 2004
Abstract
The Living Standards research is an ongoing research programme that aims to develop a comprehensive description of the living standards of New Zealanders. This description will enable governments and communities to develop evidence-based policies to address disparities between different groups of New Zealanders. Ongoing surveys will enable us to develop a detailed analysis of changes over time.
In 1999, the Super 2000 Taskforce commissioned a comprehensive survey of the living standards of older people. Three separate surveys were conducted in order to meet the objectives of the research. One survey was of older New Zealanders in general and the second was of older Māori. The third survey was a sample of working-age people. Although the Super 2000 Taskforce was disbanded in March 2000, the survey and the related streams of research were continued by the then Ministry of Social Policy (now the Ministry of Social Development).
New Zealand Living Standards 2004 not only updates the information in the series’ first report, New Zealand Living Standards 2000, but also significantly expands it by looking into a wider range of factors that can affect people’s wellbeing and living standards, such as life history, personal health and access to childcare.
Authors: Sathi Sathiyandra, Vasantha Krishnan, Davina Jones, Robert Templeton, John Jensen, Robert Hodgson, Rebekah Goldstein-Hawes and Penny Beynon - Ministry of Social Development
