Indicators Aotearoa

Ngā Tūtohu Aotearoa – Indicators Aotearoa New Zealand provides more than 100 indicators that aim to help all of us monitor progress around our social, economic, and environmental wellbeing.

Loneliness NZ worked with the Indicators Aotearoa team on the inclusion of loneliness within the New Zealand wellbeing indicators.

Social connection indicators

There are three social connections indicators within Indicators Aotearoa. They are:

Loneliness (i.e. the percentage of people aged 15 years and older who reported feeling lonely at least some of the time in the last four weeks);
Social support (i.e. the percentage of people aged 15 years and older who reported it would be easy/very easy to ask someone they know for a place to stay if they urgently needed one); and
Contact with family/whānau and friends (i.e. the percentage of New Zealanders aged 15 years and over who had face-to-face contact with family or friends in the last four weeks).

The loneliness indicator can be found on the Indicators Aotearoa website under: Indicators => Social => Social Connections => Loneliness.