Using census data to examine changes in wellbeing for Samoan, Cook Island, Tongan and Niuean households

Abstract
In recent years a number of publications have examined changes in wellbeing for
the overall population in New Zealand. These reports have each made a
contribution to understanding the impacts on and changes within different
population groups in the past 20 or so years. However, primarily due to data
constraints, relatively little analysis of the impact of these changes has been done
on specific sub-groups of the population. This paper demonstrates how Census
data can be used to examine changes in wellbeing for population sub-groups. It
uses indicators derived from Census data to describe changes in wellbeing for
Samoan, Cook Island, Tongan and Niuean households of different types over the
period 1981--2006.