Use of Survey Data for Industry, Research and Economic Policy: Selected Papers Presented at the 24th CIRET Conference, Wellington, New Zealand 1999

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Oppenlander
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Industry Research

Understanding the general practice nursing workforce in New Zealand: an overview of characteristics 2015–19

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
Sarah L. Hewitt ◽  
Nicolette F. Sheridan ◽  
Karen Hoare ◽  
Jane E. Mills
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
General Practice ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Nursing Workforce ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Role Confusion

Limited knowledge about the nursing workforce in New Zealand general practice inhibits the optimal use of nurses in this increasingly complex setting. Using workforce survey data published biennially by the Nursing Council of New Zealand, this study describes the characteristics of nurses in general practice and contrasts them with the greater nursing workforce, including consideration of changes in the profiles between 2015 and 2019. The findings suggest the general practice nursing workforce is older, less diverse, more predominately New Zealand trained and very much more likely to work part-time than other nurses. There is evidence that nurses in general practice are increasingly primary health care focused, as they take on expanded roles and responsibilities. However, ambiguity about terminology and the inability to track individuals in the data are limitations of this study. Therefore, it was not possible to identify and describe cohorts of nurses in general practice by important characteristics, such as prescribing authority, regionality and rurality. A greater national focus on defining and tracking this pivotal workforce is called for to overcome role confusion and better facilitate the use of nursing scopes of practice.

scholarly journals News, renewed: Towards a sustainable business model for online journalism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Alexander Colin Clark
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Business Model ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Consumer Preference ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
Online Journalism ◽  
News Websites ◽  
Conversion Rates ◽  
The Usa

<p>The News, Renewed project was established to pursue the following core objectives: 1) To identify the most promising business model for funding online journalism, through academic research. 2) To enable implementation of the most promising monetisation strategy, through the development of a technology enterprise.  From March to April 2014, Alex Clark conducted an online survey completed by 416 consumers, assessing willingness to pay for ten online monetisation strategies.  Strategies assessed include: payment-per-article, a payment-to-remove advertising, crowdfunding, donations, a mobile application, a ‘freemium’ model (charging only for premium content), a standalone subscription to a single news website, a national package of all news websites in New Zealand, a global package of all news websites in the world, as well as a multimedia package containing news, music, television and movies.  Survey data revealed that strategies embracing global bundling were most popular with respondents. While only one respondent (0.24%) said they would ‘definitely’ pay for a standalone subscription at $10 per month (NZD), 23 respondents (5.4%) said they’d definitely pay for a global news package, and 46 (10.8%) said they’d definitely pay for a news and multimedia package. Consumer preference for global bundling remained strong when viewing survey data through other analytical lenses, such as an aggregate of ‘probably’ and ‘definitely’ responses, as well as estimated conversion rates calculated using Predicted Purchase Intent values.  Upon completion of the survey, Alex worked with two developers to create PressPass, a platform focused on enabling the implementation of a bundling strategy by the journalism community. Once a prototype had been developed, Alex met with leading news organisations within New Zealand and the USA to share his findings and seek feedback about his proposed solution. In New Zealand, he met with NZME, TVNZ and MediaWorks. In the USA, he met with the New York Times, The Economist and National Geographic.  The News, Renewed thesis analyses the qualitative and quantitative findings from Alex’s consumer survey, while also providing qualitative insights from his interviews with industry leaders. The thesis has been submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Master of Advanced Technology Enterprise at Victoria University of Wellington.</p>

US union revival, minority unionism and inter-union conflict

2013 ◽  
Vol 56 (5) ◽  
pp. 653-671 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Harcourt ◽  
Helen Lam ◽  
Geoffrey Wood
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Minority Representation ◽  
Collective Voice ◽  
Legislative Change ◽  
Union Representation ◽  
Union Support ◽  
Union Decline ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Union Competition

One option for reversing US union decline, requiring no legislative change, would involve re-legitimizing non-majority or minority union representation, allowing unions to organize without running the gauntlet of union certification. Such minority representation, applicable only to workplaces without majority union support on a members-only basis, could run in parallel with the existing system of exclusive representation in workplaces where majority support is achieved. The increased representation in the currently unrepresented workplaces would inevitably promote workers’ collective voice and contribute to union revival. However, minority unionism has been criticized for breeding union competition because it is non-exclusive. In this paper, the nature and extent of inter-union conflict under minority unionism are re-examined, using survey data from unions in New Zealand which already has non-exclusive, minority union representation. The low levels and consequences of conflict suggest that the benefits of minority unionism far outweigh any potentially unfavourable effects.

The Knowledge Economy in New Zealand

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.M. Kirk ◽  
D.M. Bibby
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
Technology Sector ◽  
Bus Stop ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Industry Research ◽  
Industrial Sectors ◽  
Market Focus ◽  
Key Steps

Emanating from its ‘last bus stop on the planet’ remoteness, New Zealand has traditionally faced significant barriers to the development of its export base. In the new knowledge-based economies, many of these barriers no longer apply. In order to take advantage of this new global environment and turn around its declining economic performance, New Zealand must take a number of key steps. The authors propose an approach that will enable the country to develop a knowledge-based advanced technology sector that will: specialize in niche products; be flexible and responsive; have a range of products and services across a number of industrial sectors; and have a global market focus. In proposing this solution, they focus on the respective roles of government, industry, research providers and education providers, and make recommendations accordingly.

Risk functions for frequency of alcohol-related negative consequences: New Zealand survey data

Addiction ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 95 (12) ◽  
pp. 1821-1832 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan Wyllie ◽  
Jia-Fang Zhang ◽  
Sally Casswell
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Risk Functions

scholarly journals On the Bright Side: Covid-19, A Perverse Once-in-One-Hundred Year Opportunity

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-58
Author(s):  
Nigel Haworth
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Employment Relations ◽  
Political Imagination ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Partners ◽  
Major Transformation ◽  
Bright Side

The Covid-19 pandemic, challenging as it is, provides an opportunity to rethink employment relations arrangements in New Zealand in a broader context of economic policy change, in circumstances which echo the challenges of the 1930s. Major transformation will require a combination of political imagination and will, novel economic policy initiatives, and strong commitment from the social partners.

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