Publications

Social Investment Fund Quick Guides

Case study: using administrative data to better understand deaths and near misses

Accelerating Dataset Assembly

The Social Wellbeing Agency has developed the Dataset Assembly Tool to standardise and automate dataset assembly This tool simplifies the process of combining data from a wider range of difference sources together in a single dataset. Using the tool…

Measuring changes in people’s wellbeing

To measure changes in wellbeing associated social services, we’ve developed an analytical method that links administrative and survey data. In the first instance, we’ve used this method to measure the wellbeing impacts of social housing in New Zealan…

Modelling Insights – timelines of people’s lived experience

To make social sector insights more accessible, we’ve developed a technique for producing representative timelines of people’s interactions with social services, throughout their lives. Drawing on cross-sector data, this technique enhances our abilit…

Data research tool – the Social Investment Analytical Layer

Statistics NZ’s Integrated Data Infrastructure holds anonymised data from government agencies and NGOs across New Zealand, making it an important asset for social sector analysis. We’ve developed data tables which arrange the data into consistent for…