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Building a science curriculum with an effective nature of science component

This report is one of a series written for the Ministry of Education as part of the Curriculum support for science strand of the Science in…

How prepared are New Zealanders for a natural disaster? Results from the 2010 General Social Survey

This report outlines preparations New Zealand households have made for a natural disaster, using information from the 2010 New Zealand General Social Survey (NZGSS). It follows…

Finding the crowding index that works best for New Zealand: Applying different crowding indexes to Census of Population and Dwellings data for 1986–2006 (Stats NZ WP 11-04)

This study aimed to determine which household crowding measure worked best in the New Zealand context. The issue of crowded households has concerned researchers in New…

Learning More about Support Staff in Schools: Results from Surveys of Principals & Support Staff Members

This research report presents results from surveys of principals and school support staff members carried out in late 2010 in a random sample of schools.It complements…

Evaluation of the 'tips for autism' professional learning and development programme

In June 2007, the Ministry of Education contracted a team from Massey University to evaluate ‘tips for autism’ – a professional development programme for people who…

External research income earned by New Zealand universities

This fact sheet uses information collected as part of Statistics New Zealand's Research and Development Survey to analyse trends in the source of university external research…

Do people with doctoral degrees get jobs in NZ post study?

This study uses an integrated dataset maintained by Statistics New Zealand to analyse what percentage of a cohort of recent domestic doctoral graduates was employed in…

What do men and women earn after their tertiary education?

This paper looks at the relationship between young peoples’ tertiary education qualifications and their employment and earnings once they finish their tertiary study. It has a…

Sampling errors for the six degrees of separation (Stats NZ WP 12-03)

Sampling errors for the six degrees of separation arose from a study in Statistics New Zealand of a large network, similar to the acquaintance graph. This…

Measuring business births and deaths in quarterly job-flow data: Using the Linked Employer-Employee Dataset (Stats NZ WP 11-03)

This paper’s purpose is to develop a suitable method to identify the contribution that start-up businesses (business births) make to total job creation in the New…