Social wellbeing in New Zealand, relative to Australia

Interpreting "Social wellbeing in New Zealand, relative to Australia"

This figure shows social wellbeing in New Zealand relative to Australia for 23 outcomes. The circle represents the Australian outcome for each indicator, and the spokes represent New Zealand’s outcome, relative to Australia’s. Where a spoke falls outside the circle, New Zealand’s outcome is better than Australia’s. Where the spoke falls inside the circle, outcomes in New Zealand are worse than in Australia. For each outcome, the most recent data has been used where possible. The majority of the data comes from between 2005 and 2007, but the population with low incomes and income inequality data comes from 2004, and the assault mortality data comes from 2001(New Zealand) and 2003 (Australia). SOME CAUTION IS REQUIRED WITH THIS DATA: international comparisons are difficult to interpret because of the different methods countries use to collect, classify and record social data. There are some important limitations on this style of presentation. In particular we cannot directly compare the size of disparities for different indicators.