Statistics to Enhance Community Capability

Statistics NZ outlines in this article (and others) what it sees as its contribution to "Making Statistics Available to Enhance Community Capability."

'Community capability' includes

• the ability of the community to fend for itself - to participate in our society and economic structure and meet the needs of organisations and individual members of the community, and
• the ability of a community and its individual members to understand their environment, on a local, regional, national or international scale. 

The article argues that communities need statistical information to:

• plan what they need for the community in their current situation, and
• evaluate the impact of interventions and changes over time.

The Statistics NZ website also has interesting articles on:

• 2001 Maori Language Survey and Disability Survey
• A Profile of Persons Not in the Labour Force
• A series of Census Snapshots on Children, Cultural Diversity, Maori, Pacific Peoples
• Cultural Experiences Survey
• Employment & Income of Pacific Peoples in NZ
• Ethnic Differentials in Induced Abortions in NZ
• Gaming in NZ
• Gender and Unpaid Work: Findings from the Time Use Survey
• Measuring Unpaid Work in NZ
• New Zealand's Children
• NZ Time Use Survey 1999
• Pacific Profiles 2001 Highlights
• People Born Overseas
• Population Ageing in NZ
• Time Use - Time for Culture