This year's report comprises 10 outcome domains and 43 indicators, an expansion on the 2003 report which contained nine outcome domains and 38 indicators.

The most significant change to The Social Report 2004 is the introduction of a new leisure and recreation outcome domain. This change was signalled in last year's social report and is the outcome of stakeholder consultation on the content of The Social Report 2001. Up until this year, we have been unable to include this outcome domain in the report because of data limitations.

In total, nine new indicators have been included in this year's report, two of which are in the leisure and recreation outcome domain. Four indicators from last year's report have been deleted. The introduction of these indicators represents the availability of new data sources and the development of better indicators from existing data sources over the past year, and is part of the ongoing process of refining and improving the indicators used in the social report. The table below summarises these changes.

Table AP1.1 Summary of new and deleted indicators in The Social Report 2004

Outcome domains/section	New indicators	Deleted indicators
Paid Work	Average hourly earnings. Satisfaction with work/life balance. Proportion of the population who are satisfied with their work-life balance.	Proportion of the employed population working long-hours. This indicator has been replaced by the "satisfaction with work/life balance" indicator.
Civil and Political Rights	Absence of corruption. Corruption Perceptions Index (Transparency International) score out of 10.
Culture and Identity	Language retention. The proportion of the resident population who can speak the 'first language' (excluding English) for ethnic groups (other than Māori) that have an established resident population in New Zealand.	Māori and Pacific children receiving Māori medium and Pacific medium education. This indicator had been used as a proxy measure of the extent to which people are able to retain and pass their culture and values on to future generations. It has been replaced by the "language retention" indicator.
Leisure and Recreation (new outcome domain)	Satisfaction with leisure. The proportion of people who are satisfied with their leisure. Participation in sport and active leisure.
Social Connectedness	Trust in others. Proportion of the adult population reporting that people can always be trusted or can usually be trusted. Loneliness. Proportion of the population experiencing loneliness always, often or some of the time. Contact between young people and their parents. Proportion of young people who agree that most weeks they get enough time to spend with Mum and/or Dad.	Unpaid work outside the home. The estimated economic value of unpaid work is captured in the Market Income indicator in the Economic Standard of Living domain. Membership of and involvement in groups. We have no time series data for this indicator.

There have been very minor changes to the indicators in the health domain, with two indicators renamed to better reflect what they actually measure, but no actual changes to specific indicators. Independent life expectancy has been renamed health expectancy, and what was dependent disability has been renamed disability requiring assistance.

These changes build on the following changes that were introduced in last year's social report:

• the renaming of the Human Rights domain to Civil and Political Rights. This is because economic, social and cultural rights are already captured within other domains
• the renaming of the Culture and Identity domain to Cultural Identity. Feedback received in 2001 was that this domain incorrectly conflated cultural activities with identity and belonging
• the renaming of the Environment domain to Physical Environment to better reflect the impact of both the built and the natural environment on people's wellbeing.

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