Welcome to the website of the

Population Association of New Zealand (PANZ)
Te Roopu Whaka Waihanga Iwi O Aotearoa

PANZ is a professional association that incorporates a wide range of interests in relation to the study and understanding of population issues, in New Zealand and globally. Membership is open to anyone who is interested in demographic and population related issues and study.  

Latest News:

Statistics NZ Jacoby Prize Winner 2006/07  

The Statistics New Zealand Jacoby Prize is awarded annually by PANZ for the best essay on a population topic written during a course of university study. The 2006/07 Jacoby Prize has been awarded to Catherine Schroder from the School of Geography and Earth Sciences at Victoria University, for her paper titled ‘Place Attachment in New Zealand’.

Catherine was presented with her prize by Geoff Bascand, Government Statistician at the 2007 PANZ conference in July. Read the Abstract.

The full essay will be reproduced in the next New Zealand Population Review.

PANZ Biennial Conference 2007

PANZ hosts biennial national conferences on population issues. The most recent conference was held on the 3rd and 4th July 2007 at Te Papa in Wellington. The title of the conference was “Looking Into the Future : People, Diversity and Social Outcomes”. The conference programme and presentation abstracts are available on the conference part of the web site.

The conference, its international and other guest speakers and the low registration fees charged are possible because of sponsorship from Statistics NZ, Ministry of Social Development, Ministry of Education, Te Puni Kokiri (Ministry of Maori Development) and Department of Labour. PANZ is grateful to these organisations for their continuing support.