New Zealand fails to measure value of unpaid care work, unlike Australia
New Zealand's data collection methods leave unpaid care and volunteering invisible to government planning and policy-making.
New Zealand lacks comprehensive information about unpaid care work and volunteering, creating a blind spot in government data. Australia has developed ways to measure and value this work, enabling better forecasting for care services, parental leave policy, and support for carers. Without similar data, New Zealand cannot effectively design policies or target support to those doing unpaid care work, while paradoxically counting economic activity like oil spill cleanups as boosts to the economy.
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Australia values unpaid care work – NZ’s is hiding in a black hole
Comment: Without information the Aussies have access to we cannot forecast demand for paid care services, design fair parental leave and flexible work policies, or target support to carers The post Australia values unpaid care work – NZ’s is hiding…
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Relying on ‘Temu census’ discounts value of unpaid work
Caring and volunteering is invisible to govt data administrators – yet they count an oil spill as a boost to the economy because of the cleanup spending The post Relying on ‘Temu census’ discounts value of unpaid work appeared first…