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Healthy Rivers project - comment on employment and vibrant resilient communities indicators

TR 2018/39

Report: TR 2018/39

Author: Dr William (Bill) Cochrane, Dr Mathew Roskruge

About this report

This report was commissioned by the Technical Leaders Group for the Healthy Rivers Wai Ora Project Report No. HR/TLG/2015-2016/6.4

The purpose of this report is to provide a review of the community resilience and labour market indicators proposed for use in monitoring the impact of the Healthy Rivers project on the communities and individuals of the Waikato river catchment.

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Healthy Rivers project - comment on employment and vibrant resilient communities indicators Baseline Report [PDF, 894 KB]

Contents
1 Introduction
2 Data sources
2.1 Survey data
2.2 Administrative data
3 Proposes social indicators
3.1 Community health and resilience
3.2 Employment/Labour Market
4 General Comments
4.1 The use of the New Zealand Deprivation Index (NZdep)
4.2 The importance of providing time series context for measures
4.3 The relative size of the projected impacts and the nature of risk
5 Conclusion