June 23, 2021
Data to help drive iwi progress
Statistics Minister Meka Whaitiri has relaunched Te Whata, an online repository for Māori data.
The tool was developed by the Digital Iwi Leaders Group and Stats NZ, who have been working together under the Mana Ōrite relationship agreement to address some of the shortcomings of the 2018 census in collecting Māori data.
Ms Whaitiri says it contains not just Census data and updated estimates but data held by other government agencies, and iwi can feed in their own data to make it useful to them.
"Simply put, it's giving iwi their own data so they can make really informed decisions, whether it's in the social space, whether it's in the economic space. Many of our iwi are multi-million dollar organisations investing in their own people and investing in other things. It's critical they have a good baseline of information and this Te Whata tool will enable them to do that," she says.
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