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A tool enabling users to explore how the number and type of Māori electorates change with changes in both the Census population counts and Māori electoral roll enrolment.
The number of electorates in New Zealand is determined by a calculation based on two sources of information — the results from the most recent Census of Population and Dwellings and the proportion of individuals of Māori descent aged over 18 years who have chosen to be listed on the Māori electoral roll.
This tool enables users to explore how the number and type of electorates change with changes in both the Census population counts and the Māori electoral roll enrolment.
Consequently, this tool provides estimates of electorate numbers that are as accurate as possible, but the definitive answer is only possible with access to information that is not publicly available. However, it provides an effective tool to explore the sensitivity of the number and types of electorates to changes in population counts and electoral enrolment.
Funded by: iNZight Analytics
The Māori Electorate Explorer is currently being updated with more recent information.
A quick guide to understanding political polling in New Zealand, this booklet outlines how polls work, aspects of polls that speak to their quality, including sample size, error, and sampling methods, and how polls relate to actual party representation in parliament.
Funded by: iNZight Analytics
Public opinion polling is an important tool for understanding how a population feels about a particular issue, or which political parties they would vote for. But which details about a poll matter, and why?
This guide offers a brief overview of what information to look out for about a poll, and why this information should be transparent. It outlines how polls work, aspects of polls that speak to their quality, including sample size, error, and sampling methods, and how polls relate to actual party representation in parliament. Journalists reporting on a poll should report information on each of these features as they give important information to evaluate the reliability of the poll results.
If you’d like more information about each of these points, and political polling in the New Zealand context, please consult the accompanying detailed guide, accessible at https://inzight.co.nz/apps/polling-guide.
IDI Search is a web app that allows researchers to search for variables that are available in the IDI and, in some cases, metadata about these variables. The app uses data from IDI variables and Data Dictionaries shared with us by Stats NZ. The data are stored in a database which can then be searched using the web app.
Funded by: Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment Endeavour Fund
Grant number: 62506 ENDRP
This project was initially funded by an MBIE Endeavour Fund grant, with further development carried out by iNZight Analytics. Ongoing resourcing from 2025 is provided by Stats NZ.
Managing director Andrew Sporle was part of the initial COVID-19 pandemic modelling team with Te Pūnaha Matatini with a particular focus on equity. He helped to create an early tool that looked at regional outcomes by age and ethnicity if the pandemic continued without public health interventions. The team won the 2020 Prime Minister's Science prize for their work.
Since then Andrew has been involved with further COVID-19 projects, including a project that aims create a population based contagion model for New Zealand (led by Dr Dion O'Neale).
Andrew has also been involved in ESR work exploring genetic subtypes, resulting in the first paper to identify on plane transmission of COVID, and a second workstream demonstrating that the most effective vaccine rollout strategy for Aotearoa was one that prioritised the needs of Māori and Pasifika.
Recently, Andrew has been involved in work around improving access to Māori data from the Ministry of Health.