Publications

Te Ao Māori perspectives of what works to support wellbeing in the first thousand days

Wellbeing during the first year of COVID-19

Children and debt to government

Children and debt insights Te Atatū - Insights Brief: Children and debt to government draws evidence from examination of debt to government to examine the impact of debt on families with children.

Public and private debt

Public and private debt provides insights into the nature of public and private debt in Aotearoa New Zealand.  Small case studies and anecdotes have previously highlighted patterns between public debt (debt owed to government) and private debt (debt…

Persistence of debt to government

The persistence of debt of government examines the existing range to debt types people owe to government, the types of debt and the length of time the people have had debt to government. 

COVID-19 vaccine uptake for disabled people - Vaccine analysis

The Ministry of Health asked the Social Wellbeing Agency look at the take up of vaccinations for disabled people using the Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI).  This required us firstly to create a disability indicator.

Academic perspectives on wellbeing

The Social Wellbeing Agency has published a summary of existing evidence on the relationship between aspects of parental, family, and whānau wellbeing and child wellbeing in early childhood, with a focus on the first 1000 days of a child's life.…

Identifying effective responses to the COVID-19 pandemic

Our report, Identifying effective policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, summarises a number of COVID-19 policies alongside reported case rates in New Zealand and 49 similar countries.

Case study: Community-led support in response to COVID-19

South Seas Healthcare Trust is Otara’s largest Pacific health provider, delivering a range of clinic, community and social services in South Auckland. The Pacific community was disproportionately impacted in the COVID-19 Delta outbreak in 2021, and S…

What about the menz?

In 2018-19, the Social Wellbeing Agency worked with The Southern Initiative to explore the benefits of combining data, science, and lived experience – specifically looking at contributing to child, youth and family wellbeing in South Auckland.