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Quality of Life Survey 2020: Waikato results

TR 2021/07
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Report: TR 2021/07

Author: Paul Killerby (APR Consultants) and Beat Huser (Waikato Regional Council)

About this report

This report presents Waikato regional results from a survey undertaken in parallel with the 2020 Quality of Life Survey (a national partnership between nine New Zealand councils including Hamilton). It includes results at the overall Waikato region level as well as by age group, gender, and ethnic group. Trends for the period 2006 to 2020 are identified for eight survey indicators reported as part of the Waikato Progress Indicators.


Over 1,200 Waikato region residents aged 18 years and over completed the survey between 23 September and 29 November 2020, including 500 people (41%) from Hamilton city.1 Questions were asked in relation to:

  • Overall quality of life
  • Environment (built and natural)
  • Housing
  • Public Transport
  • Health and wellbeing
  • Crime and safety
  • Community, culture, and social networks
  • Climate change and sustainability (new in the 2020 survey)
  • Economic wellbeing
  • Council decision-making processes.

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Quality of Life Survey 2020: Waikato results [PDF, 2.5 MB]

Contents
Executive Summary iv
1 Introduction 1
1.1 Report overview 1
1.2 Quality of Life Survey 1
1.3 Waikato Progress Indicators 2
1.4 Waikato Progress Indicators use of Quality of Life Survey data 2
2 Methodology 4
2.1 Sub-regional samples 4
2.2 Data weighting 4
2.3 Missing data 4
2.4 Sampling error 4
2.5 Rounding 5
3 Results 6
3.1 Infographic summary 6
3.2 Waikato regional results 6
3.3 Waikato Progress Indicators results by age, gender and ethnicity 29
4 Waikato Progress Indicators local results 35
5 Results over time - 2006 to 2020 40
5.1 Changes to the quality of life measure 40
5.2 Sample demographics 2006 to 2020 41
5.3 Time series graphs 2006 to 2020 42
5.4 Comparing 2006 and 2020 Waikato regional trends 43
6 Key survey findings for the Waikato region 43
7 Next steps 50