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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Pathway to Prioritisation

In 2013, the NHC published Strategic Overview: Respiratory Disease in New Zealand which highlighted COPD as an area of high materiality in terms of health gain…

Evaluation of the Defendant Centred Courtroom pilot

The Defendant Centred Courtroom (DCC) pilot trialed a reconfigured District Court courtroom where defendants who are not in custody sit or stand beside their counsel at…

Temporary Migrants as Vulnerable Workers: A Literature Review

Although New Zealand has long depended on immigrant settlers to supplement the national supply of labour, there has been a substantial increase recently in the number…

Inquiry into property investments

In November 2012, I announced that my Office would carry out an inquiry into property investments by Delta Utility Services Limited (Delta), a council-controlled trading organisation…

Privacy survey 2014

The Individual Privacy & Personal Information poll was a telephone survey by UMR of 750 New Zealanders 18 years of age and older, conducted from 22…

Meeting longitudinal information needs

The aim of the paper Options for meeting longitudinal information needs: A preliminary investigation is to identify the main future requirements for longitudinal data for research and…

The prices of goods and services in New Zealand: An international comparison

This paper analyses the latest (2005) data available from the World Bank’s International Comparison Program (ICP). It assesses the extent to which the prices of goods…

Et Tū Ake! Stand tall and proud

This paper looks at improving the economic independence of women with low or no qualifications; women who are not in education, training or employment; and Māori and Pacific…

Snapshot Study: WiFi in Schools

This report, commissioned by the Ministry of Health, presents the results of measurements of exposures to radiofrequency (RF) fields from WiFi in two New Zealand schools,…

Extramural students’ participation and achievement: Trends, patterns and highlights

This report presents a view of extramural (or distance education) students’ participation and achievement in tertiary education from 2004 to 2011. It compares participation and completion…