Canterbury Wellbeing Index June 2014 PUB145.1407.00 Published in July 2014 by Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority Christchurch, New Zealand Contact Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority Private Bag 4999, Christchurch 8140 [email protected] 0800 7464 2372 toll-free www.cera.govt.nz Citation Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (2014). Canterbury Wellbeing Index June 2014. Christchurch: Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority. ISSN 2324-5158 (Print) 2324-5166 (Online) Crown copyright © This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand licence. You are free to copy, distribute, and adapt the work, as long as you attribute the work to The Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA) and abide by the other licence terms. Please note you may not use any departmental or governmental emblem, logo, or coat of arms in any way that infringes any provision of the Flags, Emblems, and Names Protection Act 1981. 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Section Summary Knowledge and skills Participation in education ............................................................................................. 1 Educational achievement: NCEA Level 2 pass rate ..................................................... 2 Economic wellbeing Employment outcomes ................................................................................................. 3 Household income ........................................................................................................ 4 Housing Housing affordability and availability ............................................................................ 5 Health Keeping well and having access to health services ..................................................... 6 Mental wellbeing ........................................................................................................... 7 Risk factors ................................................................................................................... 8 Safety Offending patterns ........................................................................................................ 9 Child abuse and neglect ............................................................................................. 10 Social Connections People participate in and attend the arts .................................................................... 11 Sports participation .................................................................................................... 12 Households are prepared for civil defence emergencies ........................................... 13 Social connectedness ................................................................................................ 14 Civil participation Civil participation ........................................................................................................ 15 People Population .................................................................................................................. 16 0800 RING CERA I 0800 7464 2372 I Fax (03) 963 6382 I www.cera.govt.nz/cwi | 1 Canterbury Wellbeing Index Interpreting changes in social recovery 2008-10 to 2013-14 The spider diagram uses ‘spokes’ to represent changes in each indicator, • the blue dotted circle represents average data prior to the September 2010 earthquake (where possible using a two year average from January 2008 to September 2010); and • the spokes represent post-earthquake data where possible using an average from 2013 to June 2014. Longer spokes represent greater change. However, there is no relationship between indicators in magnitude of change. Spokes extending out from the blue circle indicate increases, and spokes extending inwards indicate decreases. KNOWLEDG E & SK ILLS G EIN LB Youth not in EL W employment, L NCEA level 2 TA High education or achievement: EN M stress training school leavers Access to Beneficiaries mental health -14% into work services 181% 3% 49% 12% Overall E C Quality unemployment O of life N rate O M I -21% -15% C W E L Youth L unemployment B S E I S Sense of rate N E -5% -8% G N Community D E T C E N Weekly N household O Volunteering -8% 16% C income L A I C O Proportion of S renters with <$480 per Civil Defence -48% 91% week after preparedness housing costs are paid Child 27% 13% investigation Mean house prices -12% 36% G N Re- I S imprisonment Mean U O weekly rent H S A F 11% E -13% T Y Assault and Hospital property -48% -71% admissions offences -15% -52% Hazardous Winter flu drinking Adult Problems smoking accessing GP HEALTH Pre and Post FAVOURABLE By comparison to pre-quake and where possible national trends Earthquake NEUTRAL Social Recovery Either changes reflect national trends, the average has not changed or changes are otherwise ambiguous Analysis LESS FAVOURABLE By comparison to pre-quake and where possible national trends Canterbury Wellbeing Index: an overview1 Knowledge and skills Christchurch (an extra $106 per week on compared with the pre-earthquake average) and it is increasing at a faster period of the 24 months to June Despite considerable disruption to the rate than the national average. Increased 2010. Over this same period there schooling network, school leavers have demand for rental accommodation was an 18 per cent increase nationally. consistently achieved NCEA Level 2 or has come from displaced households However, looking at just the year prior above at higher rates than prior to the and workers arriving to assist with the to the earthquakes, this variance is earthquakes: 70 per cent in 2009, rebuild. As a result, fewer low-cost less significant. When comparing the 72 per cent in 2010, 75 per cent in rentals are available which is impacting twelve months to June 2010 with the 2011 and 73 per cent in 2012. on low income earners. twelve months to June 2013 there was A buoyant employment market a 10 per cent increase in notifications generated by the rebuild has led to a Health requiring further action in Canterbury drop in the rate of young people not in Physical health indicators selected compared with 12 per cent nationally. education, employment, or training to for the index show little on-going 9.2 per cent in March 2014 compared earthquake impact. Hospital admissions Social connectedness with 12.8 per cent across New Zealand. (including those for cancer) have Residents have experienced resumed a pre-earthquake pattern of significant upheaval and population Economic wellbeing increase after dropping immediately movement which has reduced Since 2011 the unemployment rate following the February 2011 earthquake. social connectedness. The proportion has lowered significantly, reaching of people reporting a strong sense Access to general practice has improved 3.3 per cent in the March 2014 quarter of community with others in their since the time of the earthquakes. which is well below the national rate neighbourhood fell from 57 per Only 8.2 per cent of residents reported (6.2 per cent). cent in 2010 to 47 per cent in April that they had been unable to get an 2014. Those reporting lower levels Young people are more likely to find appointment in 2012/13 compared with of connectedness were in temporary jobs than elsewhere in the country. 15.5 per cent in 2011/12. housing, young adults aged 18-34, Only 16.6 per cent of those aged 15-19 Both smoking and hazardous drinking people living with a physical health years were unemployed in the March rates have declined and are lower than disability, renters and those who had 2014 quarter compared with 22.3 per national rates. Smoking rates were moved since the September 2010 cent across New Zealand. For those 16.2 per cent in 2012/13 compared with earthquake. aged 20-24 years the rate dropped to 18.7 per cent nationally and hazardous 6.1 per cent (compared with 13.1 per drinking rates were 11.3 per cent cent across New Zealand). Mental wellbeing compared with 17.3 per cent nationally. In 2011 and the first six months of Greater Christchurch has had a 2012, demand for mental health 16.6 per cent increase in median Safety services remained relatively flat, but it equivalised gross weekly household Total assaults declined by 5 per cent in has increased since 2013. The overall income between 2008 and 2013, while 2013 from the pre-earthquake period proportion of people accessing mental New Zealand overall experienced an of 2008-2009. Total property offences health services increased by 12 per 8.1 per cent increase over this period. declined by 16 per cent. Despite cent in the eight months to August For low income earners living in rental fluctuations between 2010 and 2013, 2013 from the eight months to August accommodation, their income has there was a 2 per cent reduction in 2010. In particular, specialist mental increased at a higher rate than their dwelling assaults, compared with a health services for those aged 0-17 housing costs. The proportion of renting 6 per cent decline nationally. years and psychiatric emergency services have experienced increased households with a gross income of less Canterbury's re-imprisonment rate demand. than $480 per week after rental housing declined from 27.4 per cent in 2011 costs are paid dropped from 39 per to 24.1 in 2013 compared with a By April 2014, 22 per cent of the cent in 2011 to 19 per cent in 2013. decrease from 27.1 per cent to 26.7 per population were reporting high levels cent nationally during this period. This of stress (compared with 18 per cent Housing decline may reflect