This report is published as part of an ongoing research series to meet the legislative requirement for Superu to publish “an annual Families Status Report that measures and monitors the wellbeing of New Zealand families” (Families Commission Act 2003, section 8). This is the third report in this ongoing research series. This document reports on family wellbeing according to the following family or whānau types:
• couples without children living with them, further classified by whether or not the
couple were both under 50 years of age
• families with at least one child under 18 years of age, further classified by whether
one or two parents were living with them, and
• families where all the children were 18 years of age or older, further classified by
whether one or two parents were living with them.
For whānau wellbeing, we used the same categories but with the addition of ‘multiwhānau households’.
A summary of the indicator findings is presented on page 7.
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