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Parent and caregivers perceptions and attitudes towards children's physical activity and physical education: Results of a NZ primary schools physical activity project

A pilot physical activity project was trialled in 15 primary schools in Christchurch and Auckland, New Zealand, with the aim to increase the quality and quantity…

NEMP Writing, Reading and Mathematics Report 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…

Health and Pacific People in New Zealand

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…

Scoping support for New Zealand Sign Language users accessing the curriculum Part II: A New Zealand Overview

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…

Scoping support for New Zealand Sign Language users accessing the Curriculum Part I: An international literature review

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.…

How can tertiary education deliver better value to the economy?

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…

Petition estimators and their variance (Stats NZ WP 10-04)

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)

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…

Outputs and outcomes of the government’s tertiary education expenditure 2005-2009

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)

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…