The Employment and Retirement Transitions of New Zealanders Aged in their 60s: Evidence from LEED Last Publication Date: 01 May 2008 This study describes the employment patterns and work-to-retirement transitions of New Zealanders who were who were born between 1 April 1936 and 31 March 1940 and…
Seen and Heard: Children's Media Use, Exposure, and Response Last Publication Date: 01 May 2008 With greater access to a variety of media devices and media content, there is a need for new research that updates the information collected during 1999/2000,…
Maternity Services Consumer Satisfaction Survey 2007 Last Publication Date: 01 May 2008 In 2007 the Ministry of Health commissioned a survey of approximately 3,000 women who had recently given birth to evaluate their level of satisfaction with the…
How does achievement at school affect achievement in tertiary education? Last Publication Date: 01 May 2008 This report explores the relationship between academic achievement at secondary school and first-year achievement in tertiary education. The analysis uses a measure known as 'expected percentile'…
Advanced trade, technical and professional qualifications – identifying demand Last Publication Date: 01 May 2008 Demand for people in the workplace with advanced skills is increasing. Having more people with advanced qualifications is one part of the solution. This report finds…
Research par excellence: The factors associated with higher research quality in New Zealand tertiary education organisations Last Publication Date: 01 May 2008 This report applies statistical modelling to the results of the 2006 Performance-Based Research Fund Quality Evaluation to identify the staff characteristics associated with higher research quality.
Outcomes of Early Childhood Education: Literature Review Last Publication Date: 01 May 2008 This literature review was commissioned by the Ministry of Education to provide policy makers with a synthesis of research that analyses the impact of early childhood…
Why are there so many short jobs in LEED? An analysis of job tenure using LEED Last Publication Date: 28 Apr 2008 The main objective of this paper is to investigate the use of earnings spells in LEED as a measure of job tenure. The paper was motivated…
Housing, Economic Change and the Governance of Metropolitan Areas Last Publication Date: 01 Apr 2008 This paper considers how large cities have been adapting policies for homes and neighbourhoods in ways that are of relevance to the Auckland Metropolitan Area. The…
Settlement Patterns and the Geographic Mobility of Recent Migrants to New Zealand Last Publication Date: 01 Apr 2008 Twenty-three percent of New Zealand’s population is foreign-born and forty percent of migrants have arrived in the past ten years. Newly arriving migrants tend to settle…
