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Schoolchildren in paid employment: a summary of research findings

This paper summarises the state of knowledge surrounding New Zealand schoolchildren in employment to early 2010. It brings together formative publications from earlier in the decade,…

Ageing and violent crime in New Zealand (Stats NZ WP 10-01)

In this paper we answer three questions about demographic change and violent crime in New Zealand: How has the age-sex profile of violent offending been changing?…

Sole parenting in New Zealand

The Ministry of Social Development led a cross-agency and cross-sector research programme that looked at changes in the rate of sole parenthood, sole parent employment and…

Annual measures of job creation and destruction in New Zealand

Job creation and destruction statistics at the aggregate level reflect the net result of the thousands of businesses in the New Zealand economy changing their specific…

Education and Pacific People In New Zealand

The second report in the Pacific Progress series, Education and Pacific peoples in New Zealandlooks at Pacific peoples’ experience of the education system and the most important…

Immigration Selection and the Returns to Human Capital in NZ and Australia

Choosing whether to live in New Zealand or in Australia is a decision that both international migrants and the citizens of both countries often need to…

Employer-funded education and training: who receives it?

This paper analyses the level and distribution of employer-funded education and training that employees receive, using data collected by Statistics New Zealand in the first quarter…

New Zealand housing report 2009/10: structure pressures and issues

This first New Zealand Housing Report provides a broad overview of housing market conditions in the building and housing sector. It is the first document to…

Criminalisation of Cartel Behaviour

This paper considers the case for criminalisation of hard-core cartel behaviour. Two frameworks are applied for considering the issue: retributive justice and deterrence (so as to…

Optimised geographies for data reporting: Zone design tools for census output geographies (Stats NZ WP 09-01)

This paper explores methods that might be used to construct new geographies for data reporting that are in some sense optimised. The objective of the paper…