COMPASS projects

Current projects

• A Modelling Tool to Improve the Policy Response on Issues Concerning Children and Young People
  A computer-based prototype simulation model as a decision-support tool for policy-making in the early life course
  
• Updating Socioeconomic Status and Wellbeing - NZSEI-06
  We have developed the NZSEI-06, an occupation-based measure of socio-economic status derived using data from the 2006 New Zealand Census.
• Improving Health Systems Performance: Enhancing Hospital Outcomes
  Assessment of the performance of the hospital sector through progressive waves of structural, professional and managerial change
• The Balance of Care in an Ageing Society (BCASO)
  Modelling and quantifying a range of policy scenarios on the future shape of the health sector

Completed projects

• Modelling residential segregation: an empirical and simulation-based study
  Using computer simulation as a new methodological approach to modelling residential segregation and measuring the variables of interest
• Modelling social change in New Zealand: Social Simulation Applied to a Census 'test-bed' (MoSC)
  Computer-based simulation techniques applied to census data on cohabitation to test a model of New Zealand’s social structure in the period 1981–2001Changing Pacific household composition and wellbeing, 1981 to 2006
  An analysis of changes in Pacific families and Pacific household composition over a 25 year period
• Developing a hub for e-Social Science in New Zealand
  Linking the GRID with emergent social data technologies and networks
• Family Whanau and Wellbeing Project (FWWP)
  Development of ways to examine and monitor the social and economic determinants of family and whanau wellbeing and how these have changed over the 1981 to 2006 period
• Generating synthetic data sets using non-confidential published tables and confidentialised unit record data sets
  Investigation of methods for creating large synthetic data sets using both publicly available published tables and confidentialised microdata
• Homogamy in New Zealand?
  Investigating patterns in family/whanau formation, social interaction and social stratification
  
• Hospital Restructuring: Patient Outcomes and Nursing Workforce Implications
  Evaluation of the impact of various reforms in the 1990s on the hospital sector
• National Primary Medical Care Survey (NatMedCa)
  Describing consultations between primary health care providers and their patients
• New Zealand Quality of Healthcare Study (NZQHS)
  Identification of the occurrence, causation, impact and preventability of injury to patients due to health care management
• Primary care in an ageing society: a modelling approach (PCASO)
  A computer-based model of the primary care system in New Zealand in its social context testing propositions about its functioning and development under different scenarios of demographic ageing
• Socioeconomic Status and Wellbeing
  Refining the NZSEI and applying it to the analysis of the socioeconomic patterning of wellbeing

Student projects at COMPASS

Find out more about past projects.