NZ Ahead
The NZ Institute has launched today the NZahead report card. It grades NZ in 17 areas, and will be tracking how we do over time with some targets for 2015. A very worthwhile initiative.
The initial grades are:
- Life Expectancy B
- Unemployment C
- Inequality D
- Assault Mortality D
- Suicide C
- GDP per capita C
- Household Wealth D
- Labour Productivity D
- Innovation and Business Sophistication D
- Educational Achievement B
- Agriculture and Forestry Land per capita B
- Water Quality C
- CO2 concentration in the atmosphere D
- CO2e emissions per capita D
- Invasive Species C
- Net migration of Citizens C
- Overall NZI Grade C, with Effort a B-
Each grade, has an associated page with graphs on related indicators, background on why it is important etc.
It is interactive also. You can get to vote on how important a criteria should be overall, and also give your own overall grade.