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?
A GPI is an attempt to measure whether a nation’s or a region's growth, increased production of goods, and expanding services have actually resulted in the improvement of the well-being of the people in the region.
13 Indicators are being used to track Quality Lifestyle in the Wellington region
Click on each indicator below to access further information
Crime against people
Why is this indicator important?
Crime, and fear of crime, impacts negatively on the community in terms of personal security, the attractiveness of an area for recreation and on general amenity. The incidence of crime is both a cause and symptom of low quality of life, and is associated with poverty, exclusion and the need for support services.
Recorded offences for crimes against the person per 10,000 people, 2001-2011
Findings
- In 2011, recorded offences against the person in the Wellington region were 130 per 10,000 people.
- Recorded offence rates in the Wellington region remained relatively unchanged between 2001 and 2004, gradually increased from 2005 to 2009 and then have decreased over the last couple of years.
- Recorded offences against the person were generally slightly higher in the Wellington region than in New Zealand overall from 2001 to 2009, but this trend has reversed over the last two years.
Crime against people
Definition and data details
Indicator Definition
The number of recorded crimes in the categories homicide and related; acts intended to cause injury; sexual assault and related; dangerous or negligent acts endangering persons; abduction, harassment and related against a person expressed as a rate per 10,000 people.
Data Source
Statistics New Zealand: Recorded offences
Last updated 26 July 2012
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