Reconviction and reimprisonment rates for released prisoners Last Publication Date: 01 May 2002 There is considerable interest in reoffending by released prisoners. This paper presents information on the prior and post conviction histories of the 22,340 inmates released from…
A focus on employment retention - A meta analysis of three pilot programmes designed to support benefit recipients to take-up and retain employment Last Publication Date: 01 Mar 2002 The barriers associated with employment retention, for people moving off benefit and into paid work, are well documented in the New Zealand1 and international literature and are often…
Experience and suitability of job applicants: two policy issues from a survey of employers Last Publication Date: 01 Mar 2002 A survey of Christchurch employers advertising job vacancies in January 2001 found that far more positions required experience in a similar job than required a specific…
An analysis of New Zealand's Business Demography Database Last Publication Date: 01 Mar 2002 Longitudinal employer information for a linked employer-employee dataset in New Zealand will likely come from the business demography database maintained by Statistics New Zealand. The success…
A fous on employment retention: A meta analysis of three pilot programmes designed to support benefit recipients to take-up and retain employment Last Publication Date: 01 Mar 2002 The barriers associated with employment retention, for people moving off benefit and into paid work, are well documented in the New Zealand and international literature and…
Change in the distribution of income of the working age population 1976-96 Last Publication Date: 01 Mar 2002 Census data are used to analyse changes in the distribution of income among the working-age population (15 to 59 years) between 1976 and 1996. The income…
Pacific peoples and tertiary education: Issues of participation Last Publication Date: 25 Feb 2002 This research focused on the participation patterns of Pacific students in tertiary education and barriers to their participation. It has three parts: a literature review on…
Literature Review on Pacific Education Issues Last Publication Date: 31 Jan 2002 This Literature Review on Pasifika Education Issues was commissioned to provide valuable information about those issues for Pacific education which have been researched, and those which…
Commonsense, trust and science: How patterns of beliefs and attitudes to science pose challenges for effective communication Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2002 Report on an investigation into what the public thinks, knows, and feels about science. The research involved a telephone survey of 800 members of the New Zealand public, and small-scale…
PISA 2000: The New Zealand context Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2002 The New Zealand context to the PISA 2000 study is the focus of this report, published in August 2002. The performance of sub-groups of 15-year-olds is…