The NZAVS 2026 Newsletter – The New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study

I, like tens of thousands of NZers, fill in the NZ Attitudes and Values survey each year. This is their annual newsletter, and it covers some of the results of the survey from last year.

Things like video game usage at different ages (men more than woman at young ages, women more than men in the later years), social media usage (women more than men, young more than old), alcohol consumption (younger drink less, older drink more), hours spent working each week (men more than women at all ages, with some interesting bumps), hours spent doing chores (women more than men at all ages, generally more the older you are), thoughts on AI regulation (women support more than men, but all ages support more than against), attitudes towards self, negative thoughts, etc (generally better as you age), trust in police (meh), and trust in politicians (across gender and ages, no one trusts them).

Plus a bunch of other things. It's full of graphs so hard to summarise.

I thought it was interesting so I thought I'd share.