24 May 13 – Nearly 40% of New Zealanders would disapprove of any Reserve Bank move to require home buyers to have a minimum 20% deposit, a HorizonPoll survey finds. 36.6% would approve if a deposit requirement were imposed by the Reserve Bank using a new tool in order to help deal with high housing demand and...
22 Apr 13 – New Zealanders strongly oppose testing psychoactive substances like party pills on animals. A Horizon Resarch survey finds: Only 14.8% of adult New Zealanders surveyed support allowing animal testing on psychoactive substances, like party pills, if it produces the best results An overwhelming...
16 Apr 13 – Overall 79% of New Zealanders, regardless of their political alignment, believe a bill restricting rights to protest at sea should now go back to a Parliamentary Select Committee for more thorough scrutiny and public submissions or be dropped. The Crown Minerals (Permitting and Crown Land)...
26 Mar 13 – New Zealand adults at this stage intend to definitely invest about $4.4 billion in state owned enterprise shares being offered for sale, or likely sale, by the Government. Further sales could be made to a significant group of adults who say they are “interested” in buying SOE shares, in...
25 Mar 13 – Only 9 per cent of New Zealanders believe that NZ Superannuation alone will give them an adequate income in retirement according to Horizon Research survey results* released by the Financial Services Council. Another 65 per cent of New Zealanders disagree, 10 per cent are unsure and 15 per cent are...
18 Mar 13 – Jobs, tribal unity and housing are the most important issues facing Ngāpuhi, the biggest iwi of Aotearoa, according to a new Horizon Research survey. It also finds that that Ngāpuhi overwhelmingly hope that the coming Te Tiriti o Waitangi settlement will provide education support, improved health,...
18 Feb 13 – In New Zealand serious illness is 2.6 more times more likely to strike than a serious accident putting an earner off work for six months or more. The accident victim will get 80% of income from Accident Compensation. The illness victim without income protection will have their household income...
13 Feb 13 – Market research to forecast patronage on the proposed SkyPath across Auckland Harbour Bridge reveals high demand from Aucklanders for recreational trips. Horizon Research reported that over a million recreational trips could be expected to be taken by Aucklanders in the first year, and 450,000 to a...
10 Jan 13 – 12% of Kiwis 18 years of age or over will look to change jobs in the next twelve months, according to a recent HorizonPoll, and one in twenty will look to go overseas to work. Horizon Research has been listening to New Zealanders’ personal view of their employment prospects over multiple...
1 Jan 13 – A HorizonPoll survey of what Kiwis think will happen with the economy in 2013 finds people positive about agriculture, exporting and research and development. But they expect a decline in manufacturing, employment and household incomes. Adults nationwide were asked to give their view of whether the...
20 Dec 12 – There will be a nett rise in jobs created during the next year, according to a new HorizonPoll survey. 23.8% of adults in work think the organisations employing them will increase staff in the next 12 months, 16.6% will decrease staff and 43.9% will keep number the same. The outlook is more...
2 Dec 12 – National and Labour have enjoyed significant increases in support among eligible voters. There would be a knife edge choice between potential National and Labour led coalitions if an election were held now. New Zealand First, with control of the cross benches, would determine what happened in...
29 Nov 12 – 1.308 million will spread their present shopping in December right up to Christmas Eve. They will be joined by another 311,000 who say they’re going to leave present buying until the last few days before Christmas. According to a new survey by Horizon Research, the adult shoppers will...
21 Nov 12 – 80% think their councils have lost focus and 56% support Government moves to redefine their role. These are among the main findings of a Horizon Research survey of 956 adults nationwide in August, 2012. Commissioned by the New Zealand Centre for Infrastructure Development and weighted to represent...
13 Nov 12 – A new Horizon Research survey of more than 2000 New Zealand homeowners indicates there is a strong desire to use solar energy. The September 21-October 9 survey of 2,040 home owners nationwide finds 8% of respondents, or about 4% of the country's 1.74 million dwellings, has solar power or solar hot...
25 Sep 12 – National and Labour have both lost support among the 18+ population as a whole in the latest Horizon Research poll. News of job losses and illegal intelligence gathering do not appear to have driven any statistically significant changes in voting overnight, with a 1% move away from National and 1%...
10 Sep 12 – Horizon Research has released its Maori Viewpoint 2012 report, tracking the views of Maori nationwide on issues ranging from their personal household financial position to their iwis' performance. Maori are sending clear signals to their iwi and other policy makers on what they think are the most...
30 Aug 12 – Google has the most visited web site in New Zealand. A Horizon Research poll on the websites Kiwi’s use most presented the usual suspects and a few surprises. Of the 3055, 18+ New Zealanders who participated in the survey 81% follow the world trend and use Google, making its search engine the...
28 Aug 12 – New research has been released on how businesses view charities. The HorizonPoll research, conducted for Inspiring Communities with the support of Internal Affairs - Charities (formerly the Charities Commission) and the Sustainable Business Council, reveals what drives businesses to support...
24 Aug 12 – Changes to the Emissions Trading Scheme have gone into Parliament as a new poll shows that New Zealanders are evenly split over whether we should even have a price on carbon. Carbon News reports that Climate Change Minister Tim Groser introduced his Climate Change Response (Emissions Trading and...
20 Aug 12 – New Zealanders are willing to put their hands in their pockets to encourage clean industries and technologies. The survey, of 2829 New Zealanders aged 18-plus, taken between July 5 and 16, 2012, asked recipients about their attitude toward incentives to encourage technologies such as marine energy...
10 Aug 12 – New Zealanders want the Government and business to do more about climate change – but most of all we want other countries to do something. A HorizonPoll for Carbon News shows that 67.5 per cent of respondents want business to do more to address global warming. Just 12.4 per cent of...
3 Aug 12 – The number of New Zealanders who think climate change is an urgent and immediate problem has slumped, according to a new poll. A HorizonPoll for Carbon News, finds that just over half of adult New Zealanders consider it urgent or a “problem for now”. But four years ago, three out of...
25 Jul 12 – A majority of residents will support low level variable tolls on Auckland's motorways if this reduces congestion and helps fund major transport projects, according to a Horizon Research survey just released. The survey of 1,016 Aucklanders was commissioned by the New Zealand Council for...
10 Jul 12 – While 90% of Maori don’t think state energy assets should be sold off until the Waitangi Tribunal reports on the issue, less than half believe Maori own water in the country’s rivers and lakes and should be able to attach a value to it. 44.4% of Maori believe, in general, that Maori own...
9 Jul 12 – Nearly 90% of Maori want the Government to wait for the outcome of a special Waitangi Tribunal hearing before selling up to 49% of shares in three state energy companies which own hydro dams. Only 4.7% want share sales to proceed with a settlement made later, according to a survey being conducted...
6 Jun 12 – 6 June 2012 National’s party vote support among the total adult population has slipped a further 1.5% in the past month. A HorizonPoll survey of 2,814 New Zealanders aged 18+, conducted between May 18 and June 6, 2012, finds National with 26.6% support. This is down from 28.1% in April-May...
12 May 12 – In the lead-up to Mother’s Day, TomTom shares the road trip realities of 5,000 mums from around the world. An independent study reveals that it takes on average just 27 minutes for children to get bored on long car journeys. Of those countries surveyed, children in Australia get bored the...
10 May 12 – National’s 18+ population support has fallen 4.21% compared with the last general election. Labour’s has risen 4.63% but is still below the 25% it had when it lost the 2008 general election to National. In the April/May 2012 HorizonPoll of 2,506 people aged 18+, New Zealand First holds...
6 May 12 – 71.5% of New Zealanders think media people who accept cash or other benefits from a non-media organisation are less credible when doing their news work. 66.6% of NewstalkZB listeners think this way. The radio station’s breakfast presenter, Mike Hosking, has reportedly stood earn up to $48,000...
6 Mar 12 – Rugby is New Zealand’s most watched sport, but fishing has more than five times more people participating. Rugby is watched by 68% of adult New Zealanders, with 5% playing it. However, 26% are going fishing (while 28% watch). The top four most watched sports in the country are Rugby (68% of...
1 Feb 12 – Horizon Research Limited has acquired the ShapeNZ research service from the Sustainable Business Council (SBC). The SBC launched ShapeNZ in 2006 to allow the public to have a say on major policy issues, recruiting a 14,000 member panel representing the adult population. Horizon’s Principal,...
18 Jan 12 – New Zealand business decision makers are more likely to have used marijuana than the rest of the adult population. Twice as many have tried cocaine at least once in their lives, according to a nationwide survey conducted by Horizon Research. However, overall more adults than decision makers have...
9 Dec 11 – David Shearer has twice as much public support to be Labour leader than David Cuncliffe. 35.4% of adult New Zealanders would prefer Shearer as Labour leader, 16.9% Cunliffe. Shearer is also seen to better represent the sort of things respondents believe in and to have an edge in several leadership...
27 Nov 11 – Horizon’s final pre-election survey found 56% of the votes cast would be to not change the Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) voting system. The official preliminary referendum result is 55.76% of votes cast support keeping MMP. In the second part of the referendum, in which voters were asked to...
24 Nov 11 – Here are Horizon's predictions for the 2011 General Election. We've waited until the last minute to post them, so as to take into account the latest polls by Horizon, Reid Research, Colmar Brunton, DigiPoll and other polling companies. Polling the electorate during an intense election campaign is...
23 Nov 11 – Pure Advantage, the organisation championing a move to a green growth economy, says the latest polling by independent research company Horizon shows there is widespread public support for New Zealand to secure its share of the $6 trillion global opportunity that green growth promises by 2050. The...
20 Nov 11 – There have been some significant changes during the election campaign in the way Labour Leader Phil Goff and National leader John Key are making people feel. Emotion is believed to play an important role in driving voter choice. Nov-11 Goff Key Key relative to Goff Angry 11.10% 21.90% 10.80% Afraid...
20 Nov 11 – The country is highly polarised over the unauthorised recording of a meeting between the Prime Minister, John Key, and the Act party’s Epsom candidate, John Banks. 53% say that neither Mr Key nor Mr Banks, as parties to the conversation, should authorise the public release of the recording....
19 Nov 11 – The country is now evenly split on which main party is preferred to lead a coalition government if one is required after Saturday’s general election. A 5.5% preference lead for National has closed completely since October 29. 41.5% now want a Labour-led government, 41.1% a National-led one. ...
8 Nov 11 – National and Labour's campaign performances between November 1and 5 are rated almost neck and neck. A RadioLIVE-HorizonPoll of 1636 respondents nationwide finds the parties' campaigns rating just 2% apart. Labour’s election campaign rates best with 50.5% saying it is good to excellent....
2 Nov 11 – The first nationwide post-leaders’ debate party vote poll shows significant changes in support for National and Labour. A RadioLIVE-HorizonPoll yesterday of 1,147 registered electors who intend to vote at the November general election, shows: National down 3.6% to 35.7% of decided voters and...
31 Oct 11 – Act support is sliding and the new Conservative party’s support rising in the latest RadioLIVE-HorizonPoll. When the results for both decided voters and undecided voters with a preference are considered, the current National-led coalition would have 61 seats in a 122 seat Parliament. A...
29 Oct 11 – The first poll of the 2011 election campaign shows 42.1% of voters would prefer a National-led government after the November 26 general election. A Labour-led government is preferred by 36.6% (a 5.5% gap). However, 21.3% are undecided. The RadioLIVE-HorizonPoll of 887 voters between Tuesday and...
23 Oct 11 – 83% back the All Blacks, 57% will be in front of telly, up to 112,000 downtown - and 65% say do it again The All Blacks go onto Eden Park tonight with 83% of New Zealanders thinking they will win. Fine weather in Auckland could see between 80,000 and 112,000 fans descend on three downtown Auckland...
27 Sep 11 – New Zealanders are as united in their support of the All Blacks as they are opposed to battery cages. A comprehensive opinion poll, released today by animal advocacy group SAFE, reveals a consensus across all sectors of the population that battery hen cages should be banned, with 85 per cent of New...
25 Sep 11 – 74% of New Zealanders want the Electoral Commission to send them more information about alternative voting systems to MMP before casting their votes on electoral reform in just 10 weeks’ time. Some 38.6% of 2,571 voters polled by Horizon Research say they will vote to keep MMP, 33% will vote...
21 Sep 11 – Going overseas to find skilled trades people is one solution to current shortages, but the head of one of New Zealand’s largest employers says there is another to be found right at home. Mike Huddleston, Chief Executive of AWF Group, says a nationwide AWF Group-Horizon Workforce Survey...
3 Sep 11 – Fairfax’s Stuff web site is the most used media one in New Zealand. A July-August 2011 nationwide HorizonPoll finds Stuff is being visited each month by 52% of New Zealanders aged 18 plus. This indicates it is attracting an audience of about 1.66 million adult New Zealanders who say they have...
24 Jul 11 – More New Zealanders support than oppose a capital gains tax. The first nationwide poll conducted since the policy announcement finds 40.9% support Labour’s capital gains tax (CGT) proposal , 34.1% oppose, 17.9% are neutral and 7.1% don’t know. The HorizonPoll survey of 1201 people on...
12 Jun 11 – HorizonPoll’s party vote research is seen as going to tell a better story between now and the November general election. In this TVNZ Media7 broadcast, political economist Keith Rankin, who teaches Economics and Statistics in Unitec's Department of Accounting and Finance, says other polls are...
28 May 11 – The Electoral Commission might be well advised to see if some research companies are excluding up to 30% of respondents before they publish party vote poll results. The commission in 2008 allocated $3.2 million to political parties to fund election broadcasting. One of its criteria to allocate the...
22 May 11 – The first nationwide post-Budget HorizonPoll shows the Government would not get a mandate to make changes to KiwiSaver, sell up to 49% of state-owned energy company shares or reduce its shareholding in Air New Zealand. It would get a mandate to make changes to the Working for Families scheme. Some...
16 May 11 – A new poll shows New Zealanders head into Budget week thinking the country is generally off on the wrong track – but with individuals rating National as being much better than Labour to advance their own economic interests. A Horizon Research survey of 1,864 people nationwide finds 48.4% of...
24 Apr 11 – Only 1.6% of New Zealanders support a new law’s provision requiring people to prove their innocence, or face penalties of up to $15,000 and internet disconnection, if accused of breaching copyright when transferring files. Some 89% think authorities should have to prove a person has illegally...
1 Apr 11 – Maori Party co-leader leader Pita Sharples’ 7,540 majority in the Tamaki Makaurau electorate appears to have eroded to about 1,140. An Horizon Research Maori Panel poll shows Sharples would get 47.8% of candidate votes in the largely Auckland-centred Tamaki Makaurau electorate while his new...
20 Mar 11 – The current governing coalition would stay in power according to a new HorizonPoll. The National led coalition would secure 46.2% of the party vote. A Labour-Green-New Zealand First coalition would have 40.6%. Some 8.2% remain undecided. National’s vote has lifted 2.6% since the February 222...
10 Mar 11 – Some 11.5% of Maori support Te Tai Tokerau MP Hone Harawira seeking re-election as a member of a new Maori or left wing party. This according to a nationwide poll of 1,047 Maori since Tuesday by the new specialist Horizon Research Maori Panel. The poll finds he would enjoy more than twice as much...
9 Mar 11 – More than 1,300 have joined HorizonPoll's new Maori Panel in less than 48 hours. Of these 1,050 had completed the first Maori Panel survey, covering issues ranging from the financial position of their households, to how well they feel consulted on iwi issues, if they are personally seeing the...
7 Mar 11 – Horizon Research today launches a major new panel to research the views of Maori nationwide. We're aiming to make sure Maori are heard, and have some influence. We are responding to those who make big decisions affecting Maori treaty settlements, investments and policy issues. They’ve asked...
23 Jan 11 – ACCUSATIONS THAT New Zealand is one of the worst performers in the developed world when it comes to the income gap between rich and poor have been validated by a Sunday Star-Times survey. Conducted by Horizon Research, it shows the burgeoning gap between the haves and have-nots is frothing over...
16 Jan 11 – Business decision-makers believe New Zealand is not headed for a double-dip recession, a poll commissioned by the Sunday Star-Times shows. Almost half (49.6%) of those with key decision-making roles in business say they do not believe the country will go back into recession, auguring if not a...
9 Jan 11 – Here is the summary table of results on how political leaders make New Zealanders feel. This table covers results across all politicians surveyed. Download Document...
9 Jan 11 – The Sunday Star Times-HorizonPoll for the first time publishes how some of the main political leaders make New Zealanders feel. The Sunday Star Times reports this morning that Labour leader Phil Goff makes us feel nervous, Act's Rodney Hide makes us angry, and Prime Minister John Key makes us...
7 Jan 11 – HorizonPoll has launched its first survey for 2011 - covering what people expect to happen to them and the country this year. The Mood of The Nation survey seeks views and feelings on what it's like living in New Zealand right now, and how the year ahead will be for individuals and the country: how...
6 Jan 11 – The number of shares in a new co-operative being applied for by strong wool growers appears to be matching Horizon Research findings. The Wool Partners Co-operative has announced it has raised $35 million - just more than half its $65 million target. It says this is despite efforts by the Wool...
31 Dec 10 – Over 70 percent of wool growers will not be applying for shares in the Wool Partners Co-operative float, according to an independent survey by Horizon Research that was commissioned by the New Zealand Council of Wool Exporters. The HorizonPoll internet survey of 618 respondents was conducted...
6 Dec 10 – The HorizonPoll which shows New Zealand First may determine which of the main parties governs after the next election also shows National’s vote is higher than at the 2008 election. HorizonPoll says people interpreting the poll should bear in mind it expresses results as a percentage of the...
26 Nov 10 – Eight out of 10 New Zealanders support a proposed law which will require people to provide information to police or face penalties of up to $40,000 or a year in jail. Although only 29.5% have heard of the Search and Surveillance Bill now before Parliament, 79.5% support its provisions to require...
23 Nov 10 – A majority of New Zealanders support the deal the Government did with Warner Bros to keep Hobbit film production in New Zealand. However, a majority don’t want a similar deal done again. A new nationwide HorizonPoll finds 56.4% support for the agreement the Government made with United States...
17 Nov 10 – This new HorizonPoll nationwide survey covers new law proposed by the Government to help police investigate serious crime. We seek your views on some important issues: proposals to increase police powers; the deal done to keep the Hobbit films' production in New Zealand; how our main political...
8 Oct 10 – TSB bank scores the highest “excellent” rating among those who have dealings with it. Some 43.6% rate their dealings with TSB as excellent. Second is Kiwibank with 35%. Last of seven main banks surveyed by HorizonPoll is Westpac with a 28.4% excellent rating, though it had most...
28 Sep 10 – Bob Parker has a 19% lead over Jim Anderton as preferred Mayor of Christchurch, according to HorizonPoll. Parker attracts 46% of voters, Anderton 27% in the special poll of 321 Christchurch City residents between September 23 and 26. Weighted, the survey has a maximum margin of error of +/- 5.5%....
28 Sep 10 – People in Canterbury have rated the performance of people and orgaisations during the earthqaukes disaster. Emergency services received high praise for their efforts, with 94 per cent rating the Fire Service response as very good or excellent, The Press newspaper reports this morning in its...
28 Sep 10 – Getting water, sewerage and other basic services restored is the task most Canterbury residents want the Government and councils to focus on. The Second highest priority should be re housing, and rehabilitating the housing, of those whose homes are worst affected by the September 4 earthquake and...
27 Sep 10 – Cantabrians are optimistic about an early return to normality after this month's massive earthquake, an online poll shows. Chrstchurch's The Press newspaper reports this morning that an HorizonPoll survey of 358 people has found 65 per cent believe their lives will return to normal within a year of...
27 Sep 10 – Nearly 80% of people in Canterbury are describing the level of hardship they’re experiencing as a result of the earthquakes as stressful. Ten per cent say it is very stressful, according to a new HorizonPoll survey. 26% report it is stressful, 41% slightly stressful. Only 20% say...
26 Sep 10 – HorizonPoll reveals majority of people yet to vote in Auckland’s first super city elections don’t know when to return ballot papers. Fifty one per cent don’t know voting closes at noon, Saturday October 9, 2010. More than 56% don’t know voting papers need to be posted by 5pm...
21 Sep 10 – National has an 8% lead over Labour in the latest HorizonPoll voting intentions survey covering 3,673 New Zealanders. National has 30% of voters (3% down on its 2008 share of all adult New Zealanders). Labour has 22% (3% down on its 2008 share of all adult New Zealanders). ACT has 2% (down from...
19 Sep 10 – The country is evenly split over the Government’s handling of the economy: 29% disapprove, 28% approve. An HorizonPoll survey of 3,655 New Zealanders shows 35% neither approve nor disapprove, while 8% don’t know. Weighted to represent the national population, the August 24 to September...
28 Aug 10 – Trade Me rates as the country’s most visited web site in the past 30 days. An HorizonPoll of 3179 New Zealanders nationwide between August 23 and 28 shows 83% have visited or used Trade Me. Online banking comes second with 73% and Facebook third with 71%. Among media sites Stuff (the Fairfax...
24 Aug 10 – An independent Savings Working Group announced today by the Government has a wide brief to consider how New Zealand can improve its national savings, Finance Minister Bill English says. "Improving the level of national savings is the next step in the Government's programme for tilting the economy...
23 Aug 10 – Which sport has most people watching? And which has most participating? The question is being put to HorizonPoll panel members in this survey You're welcome to join the panel and be heard right now....
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