Timeframe
2014–2016
Funding
Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu
COMPASS staff
Roy Lay-Yee
Martin von Randow
Gerard Cotterell
Collaborators
Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu
Robin Macintosh
Description
Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu keeps a detailed database of registered members and their demographics, but was at this time aware that some of their distributions did not match population estimates, especially age. A significant number of parents were not registering their children with the iwi organisation, for whatever reason. In lieu of conducting a survey of members, we examined census data starting in 1991 when the question on iwi was first asked, and reported on changes in demographic distributions and aspects of wellbeing through to the 2013 Census. These outputs were partly informed by our earlier work on wellbeing indicators as part of the Family, Whānau & Wellbeing Project.
We examined the entire Ngāi Tahu population and also the subset that was living in the area described as the iwi’s rohe. Finally, we used the StatsNZ Longitudinal Census to identify people of Ngāi Tahu iwi in the earlier censuses of 1981 and 1986, and added these to the comparisons across time.