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Young people’s perceptions of their parents’ attitudes and rules about smoking: In Fact

Young people’s perceptions of parental attitudes and rules about smoking are associated with youth smoking, and these perceptions may be an even stronger influence on youth…

Parental monitoring and substance use among Pacific youth: In Fact

Parents have a significant influence on the societal norms, values and behaviour learned by their children. Permissive parental rule setting and monitoring has been shown to…

Gambling Career Trajectories: Methodology Report

This research was undertaken to understand how risky gambling behaviours, gambling-related harm, and related life situations change over time. HPA will use the findings to help…

Attitudes towards drinking alcohol during pregnancy - Fact Sheet

This fact sheet is an analysis of data about alcohol and pregnancy collected in HPA’s 2013 Attitudes and Behaviour towards Alcohol Survey (ABAS). ABAS is an…

Science Advice to Government Conference

The first Science Advice to Governments conference took place in Auckland New Zealand on August 28-29, 2014. The meeting was co-hosted by the Office of Sir…

International Students in Non-Compliant Employment

This report outlines what is known about the extent to which international students are working in non-compliant employment, possible reasons why that is occurring and a…

Housing Pathways research series

The overall goal of the research is to develop an evidence base about how housing pathways and life circumstances influence outcomes for Housing New Zealand Corporation…

The Big Conversation Reader 2014

This reader was published for The Big Conversation in June 2014 by Creative New Zealand, Morris Hargreaves and The Audience Connection. It is intended to enrich…

Asian Aucklanders and the arts: Attitudes, attendance and participation in 2014

Auckland’s Asian population is increasing very rapidly, with one-quarter of Aucklanders identifying with an Asian ethnicity. Two-thirds of New Zealand’s Asia population lives in the Auckland…

Student Safety in Schools: Recruiting and Managing Staff

This report presents the findings of ERO's 2013 evaluation of how schools ensure student safety when recruiting and managing staff.