Workshop 3

Question 1

How is ethnicity defined

Answer 1

Ethnicity is the ethnic group or groups that people identify with or feel they belong to

Question 2

What are the three types of ethnicity output

Answer 2

Prioritised Output, Total Response Output, Sole/combination output

Question 3

Prioritised Output

Answer 3

Allocated to a single ethnic group using priority system

Question 4

Pros of Prioritised Output

Answer 4

• Data is easy to work with
• Sum of ethnic groups is total NZ pop
• Smaller ethnic groups aren’t swamped by NZ European ethnic group

Question 5

Cons of Prioritised Output

Answer 5

• causes bias in resulting stats
• over-represents some groups
• goes against self identification principle

Question 6

Total Response Output

Answer 6

Individual who indicate more than one ethnic group are counted more than once

Question 7

Pros of Total Response Output

Answer 7

• Represents all those who identify in any given ethnic group
• Doesn’t change the responses people give

Question 8

Cons of Total Response Output

Answer 8

• Sum of ethnic group populations “counts” will exceed total NZ population
• Difficulties in distribution of funding based on population numbers
• Difficulties in monitoring changes in ethnic composition of population

Question 9

Sole/Combination Outputs

Answer 9

Classified under the 9 groups

Question 10

Pros of Sole/Combination Outputs

Answer 10

• Does not change the responses that people give and reflects population diversity
• Actual population size
• Most flexible approach

Question 11

Cons of Sole/Combination Outputs

Answer 11

• New and untried
• Fail to include some ethnic groups
• Maori misidentified (record multiple ethnic groups)
• Managing data is complicated