Social » Regional Foundations

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What is Regional Foundations?

There are some services which are foundations of modern society, and their availability and reliability is critical to the whole community. Many of these services have a major impact on health outcomes, quality of life, the ability of the region to effectively serve an increasing population and the economic viability of the region.

Regional foundations is made up of 5 indicators that were selected to measure progress towards the regional foundations community outcome definition (shown above). Please see below for the raw data available over the 2001 to 2010 study period for each of the regional foundations community indicators.

As with the social well-being GPI, the the available indicator data that forms part of the regional foundations 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 regional foundations community outcome GPI for the Wellington region from 2001-2010.

Reikorangi water plant

Regional foundations GPI, 2001-2010

What this means

Over the 2001 to 2010 time period, the regional foundations GPI was found to be highest in 2001 and lowest in 2010. The regional foundations GPI decreased rapidly between 2001 and 2006, but has remained relatively unchanged since this time. Overall, the regional foundations GPI has decreased by 11.6% from 2001 to 2010. The largest change was an 80% decrease in the values for water allocation compared to total water resource over the study period.

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

4 Indicators are being used to track Regional Foundations in the Wellington region

Click on each indicator below to access further information

Perception of public transport reliability

Why is this indicator important?

Perceptions of the reliability of various forms of transport for getting around the region can impact on people’s travel opportunities and choices. Reliability is also a measure for how well public transport infrastructure can cope with current and future demand.

Average percentage of residents rating the bus and train network as reliable, 2001-2011

Findings

  • In 2011, an average of 44.0% of Wellington region residents thought that the train and bus network was reliable.
  • Over the last few years there has been a slight decrease in the percentage of residents rating the public transport network as reliable.

Perception of public transport reliability

Definition and data details

Indicator Definition

The average percentage of respondents in the Wellington region that rated the bus and train network as reliable.

Data Source

Metlink Annual Public Transport Customer Satisfaction Monitor

Last updated 4 September 2012

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