Literacy, language and numeracy: connecting research to practice in the tertiary sector Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2010 Around 40% of adults in Aotearoa, New Zealand have literacy and numeracy skills below a level needed to use and understand the increasingly difficult texts and…
Health and Pacific People in New Zealand Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2010 Health and Pacific Peoples in New Zealand is the third report in the Pacific Progress series. It presents findings on Pacific peoples’ health outcomes, discusses the socio-economic…
NEMP Writing, Reading and Mathematics Report 2010 Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2010 In 2010 the National Education Monitoring Project (NEMP) examined what a nationally representative sample of New Zealand students in year 4 and year 8 know and…
How can tertiary education deliver better value to the economy? Last Publication Date: 01 Dec 2010 This paper asks how tertiary education can deliver better value to the economy. It is based on a presentation given at the New Zealand conference of…
Scoping support for New Zealand Sign Language users accessing the Curriculum Part I: An international literature review Last Publication Date: 01 Dec 2010 This literature review has focused on the needs of those deaf children for whom visual communication through a Sign Language is beneficial for their educational development.…
Petition estimators and their variance (Stats NZ WP 10-04) Last Publication Date: 01 Dec 2010 Petition estimators and their variance reviews the statistical and mathematical aspects of determining how many registered electors have signed a petition authorised under the New Zealand…
Exogenous versus endogenous rates of return: The user cost of capital in Statistics New Zealand's multifactor productivity measures (Stats NZ WP 10-03) Last Publication Date: 01 Dec 2010 In 2003, Statistics New Zealand received funding under the Government’s growth and innovation framework (GIF) to develop official productivity measures for the New Zealand economy. In…
Scoping support for New Zealand Sign Language users accessing the curriculum Part II: A New Zealand Overview Last Publication Date: 01 Dec 2010 Language instruction to children with hearing loss requires the highest level of competency at the earliest age levels in order to optimize neural plasticity providing the…
Outputs and outcomes of the government’s tertiary education expenditure 2005-2009 Last Publication Date: 01 Nov 2010 This report synthesises the inputs, outputs and outcomes of the government’s tertiary education expenditure over the period 2005 to 2009 in eight key funds. In total,…
Chasing shadows – Comparing sex ratios in census, estimated resident, and Linked Employer-Employee data populations (Stats NZ WP 10-02) Last Publication Date: 01 Nov 2010 Changes in sex ratios observed in census and population estimates have drawn the attention of demographers and media in recent years and are articulated in the…