Families

Statistics about families include information about numbers and make-up of different kinds of families.

Information releases

• Subnational Family and Household Projections
  This information release, published every two to three years, contains the projected number of families and households in regions and territorial authority areas within New Zealand by family type and household type, based on different combinations of fertility, mortality, migration, and living arrangement type assumptions.
• New Zealand General Social Survey
  The New Zealand General Social Survey (NZGSS) provides information on the well-being of New Zealanders aged 15 years and over.  It covers a wide range of social and economic outcomes, and shows how these outcomes are distributed across different groups within the New Zealand population. 
• Survey of Family, Income, and Employment 
  The Survey of Family, Income, and Employment (SoFIE) collected information on respondents' work, family and household circumstances, income, and net worth.

Data

• Subnational Family and Household Projections additional tables

Reports and articles

• Caring for children: Findings from the 2009/10 Time Use Survey (April 2013)
• Kei te pēwhea tō whānau? Exploring whānau using the Māori Social Survey (published 2012) 
  Describes how the Māori Social Survey 2013 (Te Kupenga) will study whānau and whānau well-being.
• Vulnerable children and families: Some findings from the New Zealand General Social Survey
• Parents supporting children who do not live with them 
• The potential for new family statistics from the Household Labour Force Survey
• Young People 1986–2006: Study, work, and income
• Young People 1986–2006: Relationship Change
• Family Wellbeing Indicators Report
• Measuring Changes in Family and Whānau Wellbeing Using Census Data, 1981–2006
• Review of Official Family Statistics (published 2007)

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