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Economic and Social Statistics Unit

Goals:

To establish long term sustainable research programmes based on economic and social statistics, and
To develop evidence-based projects and surveys on both regional and national issues

Structure:
Head of Unit:
Advisory Group:

Prof. Charles Crothers
Prof. Brian Easton
Dr. Scott Fargher
Prof. Phil McDermott
Prof. Simon Milne
Maureen Reid
Prof. Ian Shirley (Chair)

Background Briefing Papers:

Effects of Recession (pdf 284kb 11 pages)

New Zealand Social Sciences Graduands 2006 (pdf 148kb 2 pages)

Leigh: A community of fishers? (pdf 2.6Mbs 93pages)
Appendices (pdf 224kb)

The Interrelations between Objective and Subjective Measures of Satisfaction in New Zealand: a review (pdf 548kb 16 pages)

Comments on Richardson's Report on Central Business to the Royal Commission on the governance of Auckland (pdf 452kb 26 pages)

Key Auckland Institutions (Word doc 96kb)
A description of the roles of key agencies in the Auckland Region

Auckland at Mid-Century (Word doc 36kb)
A summary of ARC long-term projections

Key Auckland Goals and Concerns (Word doc 40kb)
A compilation of Council goals.

Attitudes to Auckland (Word doc 116kb)

Social Indicators for Web 9 July 07 (Word doc 244kb)

Recent Land Use Changes in Rural New Zealand: broad and more detailed statistics (Word doc 208kb)

Scholarly References on Auckland (Word doc 148kb)

Recent (2005-2008) Social Science-Relevant Books on New Zealand (Word doc 48kb)

Auckland Attitudes and Views

ESSU in support of the New Zealand Herald's interest in the local authority elections is pleased to place comparable results from Digipoll surveys carried out in each of the four Auckland cities. These each have sample sizes of about 400.

Auckland Attitudes (Word doc 111kb)

Auckland NZ Herald Polls (Word doc 36kb)

References

New Zealand Herald:
Brian Rudman: lucky numbers on ballot papers one way to get voters interested (5th Oct)
Fresh Ideas on funding find favour (Oct 2)
The Manukau Mayoral Race: What are the Issues? (Oct 1)
Banks leads race for Mayoralty (Sept 22)
Wood races ahead of rivals despite airport row (Sept 27)
Five Term Mayor coasts ahead in Candidate Poll (Sept 26)
Manukau Mayoral Race: Len Brown leading field -poll (Sept 25)

Contact:
Charles Crothers: 09-921-9999 ext. 8468 or click here

Prof. Charles Crothers

Prof. Brian Easton

Dr. Scott Fargher

Prof. Phil McDermott

Prof. Ian Shirley

Maureen Reid

Prof. Simon Milne