Material Hardship Lead Indicators Dashboard
19 February 2025.
Reducing child material hardship is a Portfolio Target for the Child Poverty Reduction portfolio. Statistics New Zealand publishes rates of child material hardship annually. As the data that informs these rates is collected via a survey, there is a lag in the data being available.
The Ministry of Social Development provides the Minister for Child Poverty Reduction with a quarterly dashboard that provides more up-to-date information about a range of ‘lead indicators’ that are related to child material hardship.
The lead indicators help the Government and officials to understand how material hardship rates may change.
Dashboard:
