takes more than just sending aunty to collect the forms
A leading Māori demographer says Statistics New Zealand needs to adopt a wider whānau approach to improve collection of census data from and about Māori and Pacific populations.
Professor Tahu Kukutai from Waikato University’s Te Ngira Institute for Population Research says Stats NZ learned a lot from the troubled 2018 Census, where responses fell to 83 per cent.
The 2023 census is tracking even worse as it operates in a low trust environment with a lot of disinformation in the community.
As of last week, one in five people had not completed their forms. For people of Māori and Pacific descent, that figure is two in five.
Link to article: Collecting Māori census data takes more than just sending aunty to collect the forms - NZ Herald
