Stats NZ hosted it’s final Raraunga Ara Rau session for 2023. You can read about the event here.
Standards that will become mandatory for government departments have been selected for Māori business, ethnicity, Māori descent and iwi. Read more about what standards have been selected and next steps here.
About this guidance
This guidance is intended to be high-level, introducing basic concepts to stimulate further investigation and thinking. There are various pieces of work underway to…
A co-designed Māori data governance model offers the NZ government the opportunity to develop an approach to data governance that reflects te ao Māori needs and interests in data.
Ngā Tikanga Paihere aligns with the Data Stewardship Framework, guiding good data practice and building public trust and confidence. Currently, it is used alongside the 5 safes framework to help evaluate applications to microdata at Stats NZ.
In 2019, Stats NZ on behalf of the GCDS contracted Bell Gully to write a report outlining the benefits, risks, and mitigations of storing iwi and Māori data in the Cloud.
To address the inequities suffered by Māori and other minorities, research must include strong participation with the community of focus and meet the data related obligations of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and human rights considerations.
This report seeks to strengthen the Māori-Crown relationship by building understanding of Māori perspectives on data storage. It also aims to inform discussions and guide government agencies in their decision-making about storing data.
New videos by Stats NZ brings panellists together to examine and debate Māori perspectives about the way we collect, share, and use data.
We describe the process for mandating data standards, including the groups involved in mandating standards, the proposed topics and candidates, how you can engage with the process, why it was changed, and compliance with the previous standards.