Monitoring and Measuring

The Ministry produces the Social Report - an indicator report that monitors the social well-being of New Zealanders across 10 domains.  The particular sections of the report to focus on in relation to cultural well-being are the Cultural Identity and Leisure and Recreation outcomes.

Links to 15 regional profiles.

The Council has led a process to find out what we as a community wish for Christchurch now and in the future. Individuals as well as many groups and organisations will need to work together to achieve these outcomes. A group of outcome measures or indicators has been developed to track our progress towards the outcomes we want.

Progress report on future outcomes for Taranaki.

Matamata Piako Heritgae Indicators

Indicators for Tangata Whenua

Many governments are striving to improve the way they measure progress and plan for change from an integrated ‘whole-of-government', sustainable development perspective.  Central to this is the development of meaningful indicators. Identifying appropriate indicators of economic, social, environmental, cultural and democratic progress across local government boundaries, as part of a national system of sustainability indicators, is a challenging task and requires social-scientific and technical expertise.

The indicators listed here were selected from over 200 initial indicators identified by the monitoring and reporting community outcomes (MARCO) team as potentially suitable to measure the regional community outcomes (see www.choosingfutures.co.nz).

This excel spreadsheet contains a range of cultural well-being indicators developed by local authorities.  It was first published by the Ministry in 2006.

The Clutha District Directions Community Outcomes Report 2008 provides a general overview of how we are performing as a district and shows general trends and states at the current point in time.

The Quality of Life report provides a comprehensive assessment of quality of life in 12 New Zealand cities.

The purpose of the report is to provide information that contributes to the understanding of social, economic and environmental conditions which can be used to describe and quantify the quality of life of those living in New Zealand’s major urban areas.

Cultural Indicators for New Zealand, 2009 is one report in a series produced by the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, as part of the Cultural Statistics Programme. The aim of the programme is to improve the range and quality of statistical information about the cultural sector - for the development of cultural policy by both central and local government, for monitoring the sector’s progress and performance, and for future planning.

Introduction