Recognition and indigenizing official statistics: Reflections from Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia

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dc.contributor.authorKukutai, Tahuen_NZ
dc.contributor.authorWalter, Maggieen_NZ
dc.date.accessioned2017-07-10T00:13:58Z
dc.date.available2015en_NZ
dc.date.available2017-07-10T00:13:58Z
dc.date.issued2015en_NZ
dc.description.abstractIn First World colonised nations such as Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia, population statistics form the evidentiary base for how Indigenous peoples are known and `managed' through state policy approaches. Yet, population statistics are not a neutral counting. Decisions of what and how to count reflect particular assumptions about Indigenous identity, ways of life and wellbeing. More often than not, the requirements and priorities of government take precedence over the informational needs and priorities of Indigenous communities. Whereas National Statistics Offices (NSOs) once rendered Indigenous peoples invisible in official statistics through non-recognition, the more pressing problem in the 21st century is that of misrecognition. In seeking to move beyond statistical misrecognition, we propose a set of guiding principles for bringing government reporting frameworks and Indigenous concepts of identity and wellbeing into closer proximity. We argue that a principled approach to collecting, disseminating and analysing Indigenous data not only avoids misrecognising Indigenous peoples but enhances the functionality of official statistics for Indigenous peoples and NSOs alike.
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dc.identifier.citationKukutai, T., & Walter, M. (2015). Recognition and indigenizing official statistics: Reflections from Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia. Statistical Journal of the IAOS, 31(2), 317–326. https://doi.org/10.3233/sji-150896en
dc.identifier.doi10.3233/sji-150896en_NZ
dc.identifier.eissn1875-9254en_NZ
dc.identifier.issn1874-7655en_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10289/11157
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherIOS Press
dc.relation.isPartOfStatistical Journal of the IAOSen_NZ
dc.rights© 2015 – IOS Press and the authors. This article is published with Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License.
dc.subjectIndigenou
dc.subjectofficial statistics
dc.subjectwellbeing
dc.subjectNew Zealand
dc.subjectAustralia
dc.subjectMaori
dc.subjectAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
dc.titleRecognition and indigenizing official statistics: Reflections from Aotearoa New Zealand and Australiaen_NZ
dc.typeJournal Article
pubs.begin-page317
pubs.elements-id121582
pubs.end-page326
pubs.issue2en_NZ
pubs.notesQA: http://www.iospress.nl/ios_news/statistical-leadership-the-statistical-journal-of-the-iaos-celebrates-the-international-year-of-statistics/en_NZ
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pubs.volume31en_NZ
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