He Pukenga Korero, Vol 2, No 1 (1996)

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Whaihua Tatau

E D Fitzgerald, M H Durie, T E Black, A E Durie, I S Christensen, J T Taiapa

Abstract


Ko ngā mōhiotanga ka hua i ngā mahi rangahau i ngā
āhuatanga e pa ana ki te iwi Māori, hei tūāpapa mō te
ahu whakamua. Ko wai mā te iwi Māori, tokohia ngā
Māori, he aha ngā āhuatanga ohanga, ngā āhuatanga
noho, me ngā āhuatanga ahurea. Koianei ngā pātai me
mātua whakautu i mua i te whakatū kaupapa e ahu
whakamua ai te iwi Māori.
Ahakoa te nui o te pārongo kua kohia mai mō te
iwi Māori, kei te uaua tonu te whakaatu tōtika i te iwi
Māori. He matatini ngā āhuatanga o te iwi Māori arā,
ō rātou wāhi noho, te tuakiri ahurea, ngā āhutanga-a-
noho, a-ohanga hoki, katoa ēnei ka pā atu ki te whakatū
i tētahi anga tīpako mō te iwi Māori.
I konei, ka āta tirohia ētahi o ngā tikanga kua mahia
kētia hei huarahi tīpako i te iwi Māori, me te tōtika o
aua tikanga. Kātahi ka whakaatuhia te 'Whaihua
Tatau', tētahi tikanga tīpako hou, me tōna
whakamahinga i roto i te kaupapa rangahau whāroa i
ngā kāinga Māori, a Te Hoe Nuku Roa.

Policies for Māori advancement require reliable
information based on actual Māori experience. Who
is Māori, what are their economic, social and cultural
characteristics, what are the range of aspirations, are
questions which need to be answered before policies
and programmes designed to address Māori needs can
be adequately developed.
Although much information has been collated
about Māori there are continuing difficulties in
reporting on representative Māori samples. Māori
diversity, in terms of geography, cultural identity,
socio-economic circumstances and lifestyles are key
considerations which must be taken into account in
the construction of sampling frames for Māori. This
paper considers some of the approaches that have been
adopted for sampling Māori populations and examines
issues of efficiency and representivity. A new sampling
method, Whaihua Tatau, is described and its
application to a longitudinal study of Māori
households, Te Hoe Nuku Roa, is discussed.

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