New Zealand living standards: their measurement and variation, with an application to policy.
Abstract
This New Zealand paper describes the recently published Economic Living Standard Index (ELSI) scale for measuring living standards. It discusses results with major significance for social policy (including living standard distributions for vulnerable groups such as families with dependent children, beneficiaries and those on low market incomes), indicates some of the implications of these results, identifies new research questions that they raise, and comments on plans for future research to address those questions.
Authors: Matt Spittal, Sathi Sathiyandra, Vasantha Krishnan and John Jensen - Ministry of Social Development.
