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Report on Maternity 2000 & 2001

This is the second in the series of annual data analysing New Zealand maternity services. It contains information on the outcomes, availablity and utilisation of maternity…

Assessing The Progress On Poverty Reduction

This paper presents the summary results of the New Zealand Poverty Measurement Project's analysis of the incidence and severity of poverty during the 1990s, and assesses…

Strengthening Communities through Local Partnerships: Building a Collaborative Research Project

This paper reflects on the early stages of a Foundation for Research, Science and Technology social research project aimed at identifying the overall range, scope and…

New Zealand Living Standards: Their Measurement and Variation, with an Application To Policy

This paper describes the recently published ELSI scale for measuring living standards.  It discusses results with major significance for social policy (including living standard distributions for…

Raising Children in New Zealand: Family Resilience and Good Child Outcomes - a Review of the Literature

This report is the third volume in the Ministry of Social Development’s new research series Raising Children in New Zealand. The series was established as a…

Youth Transitions Report Series 2003

Government has the goal of having by 2007, all 15 to 19 year olds in work, education or training, or other activities that contribute to their…

Evaluating the February 1999 Domestic Purposes Benefit and Widows Benefit Reforms: Summary of key findings

This paper reports on the findings of the evaluation and monitoring strategy that focused on policy reforms for Domestic Purposes Benefit (DPB) and Widows Benefit (WB)…

The Social Report 2002

The Social Report 2002 Update is the second stage in the programme of social monitoring initiated by The Social Report 2001. It aims to provide up-to-date…

Raising Children in New Zealand: Exploring Good Outcomes for Young People

As part of its family dynamics/family effectiveness research programme, the Ministry of Social Development commissioned research in 2000 to explore the views of families, young people…

Building Strength: Youth Development Literature Review

A review of research on how to achieve good outcomes for young people in their families, peer groups, schools, careers and communities (published in June 2002…