NZ Deprivation Index – looking at deprivation from another angle

Penny - Population expert

Based in New Zealand, Penny primarily looks after our Kiwi clients but also lends her expertise to the Australian context. Penny has extensive experience as a Communication Manager in Local Government and has a degree in Business and Communications. She also brings a breadth of generalist management experience in fields as varied as research, civil defence, project and event management, marketing and training. Penny’s knowledge combined with the .id tools help clients work with their communities to empower grass roots decision-making, advocacy and grant applications, and focus on strengthening council-community relationships. Penny has a rural property and enjoys growing and eating food and wine, which she runs, walks, bikes or swims off, when she’s not in the art studio.

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  1. Kia Ora Penny. Just found this. I was the architect of the Māori dimension of Te Kupenga from it’s inception, and I’ve just taken it around NZ back to the iwi, researchers and communities. Te Kupenga does in fact measure “material hardship” within the Māori population – as defined by poverty expert, Bryan Perry, and assessed by the Economic Living Standards Index tool. It also collects household income, personal income, labour market status, and data on housing problems. It also collects comprehensive data on social wellbeing – from unpaid work (helping others) to social connectedness, to self assessed whānau wellbeing, to institutional trust, and civic engagement. The challenge with the first release was what to hit out with first. Culture won, hands down, because its new, fresh, real and what iwi and Māori have been asking for. Keep an eye out in August when we release the CURF which will enable researchers and analysts to mine the data for all its richness. Ngā mihi. Atawhai

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