Two Decades of Change in New Zealand: From Birth to Death V. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.Two Decades of Change in New Zealand: From Birth to Death V

207 pages. This book presents trends of change in everyday life, at home and in the communi ty, at school and at work. It uses a lifestyle framework to cover all stages of life from infancy to retirement. As well as by age, it provides analyses by gend er and ethnicity to highlight differences between the experiences of groups with in society. Significant trends which are tracked include changes in household co mposition and living arrangements, legal and social marital status, home ownersh ip, working patterns of parents, household and personal incomes, paid and unpaid work, life-long education, health status and hospital use. All this information is presented in a clear and accessible form, with numerous graphs and illustrat ive tables. As well as analysing the trends and commenting on their policy impli cations, the book also directs readers to other source of information, in hard c opy and electronic form. It will be of use to policy-makers at all levels, to re searchers and planners, to teachers, nurses, social workers and other profession als, as well as to students at secondary and tertiary levels. This is the fifth volume in the social monitoring series begun by the New Zealand Planning Council in 1985. It presents information from five census dates - 1981, 1986, 1991, 199 6 and 2001 - spanning two decades. As with the previous From Birth to Death repo rts, the strength of this new work is its integrated approach. Rarely is so much information on the lives of ordinary New Zealanders brought together in so hand y a form.…