Cultural » Strong & Tolerant

People are important. All members of our community are empowered to participate in decision-making and to contribute to society. We celebrate diversity and welcome newcomers, while recognising the special role of tangata whenua.

What is Strong & Tolerant?

Having a population rich in heritage, cultures and languages provides enormous social, cultural and economic benefits.  The arts are important for adding to community strength and identity, and are recognised for enabling communication across a range of different groups within society. Voting is a way that people can participate in decision-making, to be fairly represented and to seek redress for discrimination. 

Strong and tolerant community is made up of 12 indicators that were selected to measure progress towards the strong and tolerant community outcome definition (shown above). Please see below for the raw data available over the 2001 to 2010 study period for each of the strong and tolerant community indicators.

As with the social well-being GPI, the the available indicator data that forms part of the stong and tolerant community outcome area was used to calculate individual index values for each indicator for each year over the 2001 to 2010 study period. The graph below shows the average of these individual index values, and represents the strong and tolerant community outcome GPI for the Wellington region from 2001-2010.

 

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Cultural well-being (and strong and tolerant community) GPI, 2001-2010

What this means

From 2001 to 2010 there have been encouraging increases in the number of registered heritage places, overall positive perception of cultural diversity and the perception that the public understands council decision making and the ethnic diversity.

However, there have been decreases in voter participation, the percentage of children enrolled in Māori language education and a decrease in the percentage of the population that can have an everyday conversation in the Māori language. 

Did you know?

The GPI counts crime, pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, natural resource depletion and soil loss, as costs, not gains, to the economy.

12 Indicators are being used to track Strong & Tolerant in the Wellington region

Click on each indicator below to access further information

Perception of social support » Overview

This indicator measures if people have someone to turn to for help and support during difficult times. If people have support they feel more safe and secure. This indicator portrays a sense of social cohesion in society and the contribution this social cohesion makes to a person’s well-being.

Resident’s perception of availability of support, 2001-2011

Findings

 

  • In 2010, 97.9% of respondents in the Wellington region adult population had someone to turn to for support in a time of need.
  • This is similar to the percentage for the population of the participating eight big cities.
  • There has been little change in resident’s perception of availability of support from 2008 to 2010.

Perception of social support » Technical Information

Indicator Definition

The percentage of respondents in the Wellington region that thought they had someone to turn to for help if they were faced with a serious illness, injury, or needed emotional support at a difficult time.

Data Source

Quality of life survey

Last updated 22 August 2012

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