Material Hardship

High number of Pasifika children experience material hardship

For the year ended June 2020, one in four Pasifika children lived in households experiencing material hardship.

That is a similar reading to the report ended June 2019 where almost one in four Māori children (23.3 percent) lived in households that are doing without six or more of the 17 material basic needs, and the rate was higher for Pacific children at 28.6 percent.

Stats NZ describes material hardship as the "number of households missing out on more than 6 of the 17 basic things most people would regard as essentials.