Social » Connected Community
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What is Connected Community?
A region that is well-connected in terms of enabling resident’s access to private and public transport, and technology such as the internet, contributes to their overall well-being. Access to private and public transport increases people’s ability to get to employment, education and medical services, as well as access to the wider community within and outside the region.
Connected community is made up of 10 indicators that were selected to measure progress towards the connected community outcome definition (shown above). Please see below for the raw data available over the 2001 to 2010 study period for each of the connected community indicators.
As with the social well-being GPI, the available indicator data that forms part of the connected 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 connected community GPI for the Wellington region from 2001-2010.
Connected community GPI, 2001-2010
What this means
Over the 2001 to 2010 time period, the connected community GPI was found to be highest in 2009 and lowest in 2001. While the connected community GPI has seen some fluctuations over the study period, increases have generally been observed each year. Overall the connected community GPI has increased 10.6 % from 2001 to 2010.
The majority of connected community indicators have increased over the study period, with the percentage of households with access to broadband making the biggest contribution. Other increases of note were public transport boardings per capita and active mode share of total household travel. Peak AM/PM congestion rate index showed the only decrease over the 2001 to 2010 period.
Did you know?
The GPI counts our health-care costs created by smoking, not exercising, eating poorly and becoming obese, as costs, not gains, to the economy.
10 Indicators are being used to track Connected Community in the Wellington region
Click on each indicator below to access further information
Broadband access
Why is this indicator important?
Broadband is a high-speed connection to the internet and enables people, business and government fast access to ICT services and information. This can enhance people’s social and educational outcomes, employment prospects and other aspects of well-being; as well as contributing to the production and sale of goods and services in the economy.
Percentage of households with access to broadband, 2001-2011
Findings
- In 2009, 68.5% of households in the Wellington region had broadband, an increase from 38.1% in 2001.
- The percentage of households with broadband access also increased for New Zealand over this time (33.0% in 2001 to 63.1% in 2006).
- The percentage of households with broadband access is higher in the Wellington region than for New Zealand overall.
Broadband access
Definition and data details
Indicator Definition
The number of households with access to broadband expressed as a function of the total number of households.
Data Source
Statistics New Zealand: ICT Survey
Last updated 25 July 2012
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