Social » Quality Lifestyle
Living in the Wellington region is enjoyable, and people feel safe. A variety of healthy and affordable lifestyles can be pursued. Our art, sport, recreation and entertainment scenes are enjoyed by all community members – and attract visitors.
What is Quality Lifestyle?
A peaceful, harmonious and secure society is a vital and profound social asset that directly benefits the economy and the quality of life of its citizens. Therefore, if people’s perceptions of their overall quality of life are high then this tends to relate positively to their personal well-being. Lack of affordable housing can result in parts of the population living in crowded and inadequate housing which can impact on health and other social outcomes.
Quality lifestyle is made up of 13 indicators that were selected to measure progress towards the quality lifestlye community outcome definition (shown above). Please see below for the raw data available over the 2001 to 2010 study period for each of the quality lifestyle community indicators.
As with the social well-being GPI, the available indicator data that forms part of the quality lifestyle 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 quality lifestyle community GPI for the Wellington region from 2001-2010.
Quality lifestyle GPI, 2001-2010
What this means
Over the 2001 to 2010 time period, the quality lifestyle GPI was found to be highest in 2005 and lowest in 2002 and 2003. Other than some slight changes from 2003 to 2006 the quality lifestyle GPI has remained relatively unchanged and is 0.5% lower in 2010 than it was in 2001.
Visitor guest nights experienced the largest increase in index values over the study period, whereas the number of households on Housing New Zealand waiting lists and recorded offences for crimes against the person, experienced the largest decreases.
Did you know?
The GPI counts crime, pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, natural resource depletion and soil loss, as costs, not gains, to the economy.
13 Indicators are being used to track Quality Lifestyle in the Wellington region
Click on each indicator below to access further information
Living in deprivation » Overview
Addressing disadvantage is a key sustainability challenge. Persons and households experiencing low incomes, low levels of education and under-employment are less likely than others to have access to affordable housing, and to have the ability to secure a good quality of life for themselves and their families, now and in the future.
Percentage of the population living in deprivation, 2001-2011
Findings
- In 2006, 25.2% of the Wellington region population were living in deprivation (areas with decile ratings of 8, 9 or 10).
- The proportion of the population living in deprivation in the Wellington region has increased from 23.3% in 2001 to 25.2% in 2006.
- In both 2001 and 2006 the proportion of the New Zealand population living in deprivation was higher than that in the Wellington region. However, the proportion of the New Zealand population living in deprivation has decreased between 2001 and 2006 whereas it has increased in the Wellington region.
Living in deprivation » Technical Information
Indicator Definition
The number of people living in areas rated deciles 8, 9 or 10 (most deprived) on the NZ Deprivation Index (a measure of relative socio-economic deprivation) expressed as a function of the resident population.
Data Source
University of Otago: Department of Public Health
Last updated 26 July 2012
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