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…
The Evaluation of the Settlement Services Pilots Last Publication Date: 01 Feb 2002 This report 'The Evaluation of the Settlement Services Pilots' describes an evaluation of pilot projects that were set up to provide for the settlement needs of…
Evaluating the February 1999 Domestic Purposes Benefit and Widows Benefit Reforms: Summary of key findings Last Publication Date: 01 Feb 2002 This paper reports on the findings of the evaluation and monitoring strategy that focused on policy reforms for Domestic Purposes Benefit (DPB) and Widows Benefit (WB)…
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…
Medication Issues in counties Manukau Mental Health Services Last Publication Date: 31 Jan 2002 A 2001 study (Abas, Vanderpyl et al. 2001) identified medication problems as a major reason for admission into hospital. In response, this 2004 study examined stakeholder…
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…
The impact of employment policy interventions Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2002 This paper estimates the impact of different categories of employment policy interventions on subsequent outcomes for jobseekers. We generate a range of estimates to help us…
The unemployment spells of registered job seekers Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2002 This paper estimates the impact of different categories of employment policy interventions on subsequent outcomes for jobseekers. We generate a range of estimates to help us…