Analysing Children’s Wellbeing in Public Housing
This project explores which factors contribute to child wellbeing outcomes; in particular, how different housing tenure types (public housing, private rental, owner-occupied) contribute to those outcomes. Growing up in New Zealand (GUiNZ) survey data will be used to conduct a quantitative analysis of children’s wellbeing when living in different housing tenure types with distinction made between children in different forms of tenure. Early waves of the survey cover aspects of children’s lives including: the home and people they live with; finances; relationships with friends and others; the area in which they live; school and pre-school; health; time management and leisure time. Children themselves are interviewed at 8 years, including quality-of-life questions and a time-use diary with information including: how and where the children spent their time, who else was there and how they were feeling during this activity. We will also investigate the use of longitudinal IDI (integrated data infrastructure) data to assess how moving into (or out of) public housing affects children’s outcomes.
Project lead Jamie Monk
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