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). Data relating to each individual indicator (for the 2001 to 2016 period) is provided via the menu below. The index that measures change in the strong and tolerant community outcome (pictured below) shows the composite average of the individual indicators.

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Cultural well-being (and strong and tolerant community), 2001-2016

What this means

The strong and tolerant community outcome of the WR-GPI was highest in 2001, it has declined till 2012. The index has exhibited small increases between 2013 to 2014 with a small drop in the last two years. 

 

Major contributors to the negative trend in the outcome between 2001 and 2012 were declining average voter turnout at local elections, enrolment in Māori language education and the percentage of the population who can have an everyday conversation in te reo Māori.  

 

The overall decline in the strong and tolerant community outcome was partly offset by rising trends amongst the percentage of the population identifying with the Māori, Pacific or Asian ethnic groups and the number of registered heritage places in the region. Enrolment in Māori language education has increased between 2012 & 2015.

Did you know?

Natural disasters (and the cost of cleaning up after them) actually create an increase in GDP, thus counting natural disasters as a benefit to our economy. From a GPI perspective, natural disasters would be a decline in our well-being

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

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Heritage places

Why is this indicator important?

Retaining cultural capital requires preservation of cultural resources so they can be passed on to future generations. New Zealand’s heritage places provide a link to past generations and support understanding of our history and cultural origins.

Registered heritage places, 2009-2016

Findings

  • In 2016, 595 places in the Wellington region were on the New Zealand Heritage list.
  • The number of historic places on the list increased by 2% from 585 in 2009 to 595 in 2016.

Heritage places

Definition and data details

Indicator Definition

The number of heritage listings on the New Zeland Historic Places Trust Register.

Data Source

New Zealand Historic Places Trust

Last updated April 2017

Data only available from 2009. Methodology altered since 2011 WR-GPI publication.  Indicators are updated in April and November each year; for those indicators where new data or survey results have become available.

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