Te Ao Mārama: Disability Perspectives of Tāngata Whaikaha Māori

Timeframe

2019–2022

Funding

Health Research Council of New Zealand

COMPASS staff

Barry Milne
Martin von Randow

Collaborators

University of Auckland
Linda Waimarie Nikora
Andrew Sporle

University of Otago
Tristram Ingham
Bernadette Jones
Meredith Perry
Paula Thérèse King

Description

This project was led by Dr Bernadette Jones at the Department of Medicine, University of Otago Wellington. The main focus was a large scale quantitative survey of a sample of 70,000 people of Māori descent from the New Zealand Electoral Rolls. Questions focused on the experience of Māori culture along with the main interest, lived experience of disability. This included a list of terms / kupu that people might use to describe themselves, considering their limitations, along with all of the elements of the Washington Group Short Set (and some additional items), which we could use as a more formal measure of disability.