Child Poverty in New Zealand 2021 report

The MSD report uses Stats NZ’s new larger Household Economic Survey (HES) to provide detailed information on:

• the demographics of child poverty, with breakdowns by different household characteristics
• what it means in practice day-to-day for children who are identified as ‘poor’ by one or more of the CPRA measures – using child-specific indicators available for the first time in HES 2018-19
• how New Zealand children are faring compared with their European counterparts
• the interpretation of the high-level CPRA figures that Stats NZ publish each year.

The report is in two parts:

• Part One – Wide range of detailed findings, with a special focus on the use of child-specific hardship indicators to paint a picture of ‘life below the line’.
• Part Two – Several in-depth technical sections relating to measurement issues.

Selected Findings

This is a shortened version of Part One of the full report, with very little technical material.