Lindsay Mitchell

The just-released HLFS population estimates show that there are 642,700 people aged 65+. It's an estimate based on the last census, b...

Statistics NZ surveys on all sorts of things that are no business of government and serve no useful policy information requirements. The dat...

So much more to be said.... like, individualised savings accounts would bypass a lot of the wrangling collectivised health and social s...

A shift in thinking is gathering momentum in Australia as it should here. The same circumstances and questions apply in this country, where ...

New data shows a significant drop in substantiated findings of child abuse:  Yet there were 150,905 notifications in 2014/15 - a  3 ...

The BPS target progress results have just been published. A selection of graphs of interest to this blog: Not a lot to get ex...

Updating my artist blog , this is a large palette knife painting of South Island drovers. It's based on a photograph (with a fair dose o...

The Ombudsman has had enough . The abuse of the Official Information Act by those subject to it must stop. The Chief Ombudsman has slamme...

MSD has released a commissioned report about decentralising welfare to Tuhoe. Tūhoe is a relatively young population with high levels o...

The general gradual downward trend, continues. Over the year ending September 30, 2015, MSD says, "...the proportion of the working-a...

There was little chance of my voting elsewhere but David Seymour has guaranteed my tick for ACT in 2017 by lodging a new voluntary euthanas...

Here's Carmel Sepuloni clutching at straws again. She is reported in today's DomPost : Fewer people coming off a benefit and mov...

A Reverend has this to sa y about a landlord who is complaining about tenants taking advantage: "He can afford for them to take advan...

Apropos of nothing in particular, here is the current state of unemployment . In terms of pre-GFC it's not pretty, particular for female...

Statistics NZ released the latest Income Survey last Friday. From the tables, the following caught my eye. Asian median incomes are ris...

I had cause to make the following graph so thought I would post it here. The drop in Maori teenage birth is quite phenomenal. Though unteste...

Page two of the DomPost has a large headline: Complaints blamed on greater demand: MSD  "A staggering increase in complaints by Work...

Alan Duff has a go at Tuku Morgan, his greed and lack of a "self-regulation" button. He proceeds onto the lack of Treaty money s...

The NZCPR has an expanded version of my earlier blog post as their guest commentary this week. "New Zealand (as represented by th...

I frequently use my blog as a filing system. While I don't use 'labels', running a 'search'  for what I want inevitably ...