He Oranga Poutama: What have we learned? A report on the developmental evaluation of He Oranga Poutama Last Publication Date: 01 Mar 2013 He Oranga Poutama (HOP) is a Sport NZ (formerly SPARC) initiative that supports Māori wellbeing through sport and recreation. In 2009, the programme evolved from a…
Staying the course: school leavers completing their first one-year non-degree qualification Last Publication Date: 01 Mar 2013 This study looks at the performance of young tertiary students studying in their first one-year non-degree qualification. Performance is measured as to how likely it is…
Workforce participation of older workers as an element of New Zealand’s Retirement Income Framework: A Review of Existing Knowledge and Data Last Publication Date: 01 Mar 2013 As elsewhere, New Zealand faces major challenges in successfully managing the trend known as ‘population ageing’ (Jackson, 2007), illustrated at Figures 1 and 2. Although structurally…
Housing Assets: A Paper for the 2013 Review of Retirement Income Last Publication Date: 01 Mar 2013 This paper explores the connections between housing assets and retirement incomes. Older people’s high rates of home ownership today and rising house prices from about the…
Crown Research Institutes: Results of the 2011/12 audits Last Publication Date: 01 Mar 2013 Science and innovation are important to New Zealand's economic growth. The two high-level (government priority) outcomes that the science and innovation sector contributes to are "growing…
Special Report: Unintentional suffocation, foreign body inhalation and strangulation Last Publication Date: 01 Mar 2013 Suffocation, foreign body inhalation and strangulation are well-recognised causes of death in the paediatric age group. Data from the United States and United Kingdom show a…
Audience Research: Delayers of Infant Immunisation Last Publication Date: 26 Feb 2013 In November 2011, the new immunisation health target seeking to improve immunisation timeliness of young infants was introduced. The target is 95 percent of all eight-month-olds…
Mental Health and Addiction: Service use 2009/10 Last Publication Date: 13 Feb 2013 This publication provides information on the care (service) provided between July 2009 and June 2010 (2009/10) by district health boards and non-government organisations to people with…
Mobility Trial Evaluation Report Last Publication Date: 01 Feb 2013 The introduction of mobile devices and applications to frontline Police officers represents a transformational change for New Zealand Police. Providing frontline officers with innovative, state of…
Literacy and Numeracy Professional Development: Research Findings Last Publication Date: 01 Feb 2013 The purpose of this research was to find out the extent to which tertiary education organisations (TEOs) are embedding literacy and numeracy into their practices; how…