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Item YOUNG NEW ZEALANDERS AND FINANCIAL RESILIENCE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY UPDATE(Fin-Ed Centre, 2021-02-01) Matthews C; Reyers M; Wood P; Stangl JThis report covers an interim update to the 20-year longitudinal study into how young New Zealanders learn about personal finance. The main longitudinal study, conducted at five-early intervals, launched in 2012 and comprised a cohort of New Zealanders aged 18 to 22 years, at that time. The second stage of the study took place in 2017 and the third stage will take place in 2022. Overall, the Longitudinal Study endeavours to understand issues related to the financial knowledge and financial education experience, both formal and informal, of the participants. Planned interim updates, such as this, enable on-going contact with the participants as well as providing a periodic snapshot of their financial knowledge progression and financial wellbeing. The study previously undertook interim updates in 2014, 2016 and 2019.Item The COVID 19 domestic vaccine pass: Implications for Māori(National Institute of Demographic and Economic Analysis, University of Waikato, Aotearoa New Zealand, 2021-11-01) Kukutai T; Clark V; Mika J; Muru-Lanning M; Pouwhare R; Sterling R; Teague V; Watts D; Cassim SThe New Zealand government has introduced a COVID-19 domestic vaccine pass to be used in conjunction with the COVID-19 Protection Framework. The Framework is likely to be activated soon after Cabinet meets on 29 November 2021. The pass will be necessary to access places and events that require proof of vaccination under the Framework. This brief does not argue for or against the introduction of a domestic vaccine pass, but rather discusses key issues that it raises for Māori, and suggests actions to address them. We see four key issues: • the lack of Māori involvement, as a Tiriti partner, on either the design or implementation of the COVID-19 domestic vaccine pass; • disproportionate restriction on Māori mobility due to lower Māori vaccination rates; • privacy and data security concerns; • uneven implementation that could increase discrimination against Māori and other groups considered to pose a risk to others’ safety. To respond to these issues we recommend that the implementation of the pass be designed in partnership with Māori and comply with Māori data sovereignty requirements. As Tiriti partners, Māori should expect that the pass will keep their communities safe, while providing opportunities to enact manaakitanga in the matrix of care, and the mana to manage their own affairs.Item Developing a Māori theory of value: Report prepared for Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga(Te Au Rangahau, 2021-03-31) Dell KM; Newth J; Mika J; Houkamau CAThis report sets out the findings and outcomes of the Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga (NPM) funded platform research project entitled ‘Developing a Māori theory of value,’ which was completed between 1 October 2018 and 31 March 2021. The original end date of 30 September 2020 was extended by way of variation due to the impact of Covid-19. The purpose of the project was to develop a Māori theory of value for the Māori economy.Item The wellbeing of Māori pre and post Covid-19 lockdown in Aotearoa / New Zealand(University of Auckland, 2021-06-11) Houkamau CA; Dell KM; Newth J; Mika J; Sibley C; Keelan T; Dunn TThe first MIFAS survey was open between September and December 2017, and round two went out between April and November 2020. Round 2 MIFAS data collection occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic in Aotearoa New Zealand. Round two MIFAS respondents were experiencing a variety of lockdown levels at the time they were completing their surveys. During the highest lockdown level (Level 4), New Zealanders were asked not to leave their homes other than for essential personal movement. New Zealanders were asked to form “bubbles” and stay within them (small groups of people, typically close family members, who would be the only people in close contact for the period of lockdown). Except for essential services, including hospitals, essential health clinics, supermarkets and pharmacies, all businesses were closed, as were schools and universities, and childcare facilities. During Level 3, people were instructed to stay home other than for essential personal movement, including to go to work or school if they have to, or for local recreation. When outside of the home, physical distancing was required (i.e. distanced one metre from other people) in schools and workplaces. People were allowed to expand their contacts to reconnect with close family/whānau and bring in caregivers or support isolated people. In Levels 1–2, restrictions loosened; however, life was still not normal, and people were asked to exercise social distancing and caution. To explore the mental, relational, psychological, and spiritual wellbeing of Māori during and after the COVID-19 lockdowns in Aotearoa, the MIFAS team took the opportunity to include a range of open-ended survey items in the MIFAS survey to provide respondents with the opportunity to tell us how they were feeling and what they were experiencing during and after the lockdown. The MIFAS open-ended items included the following four questions. 1. Please indicate here how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted you and your whānau. 2. How do you think the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic should change us as a society? 3. Who has supported you to stay safe and well during the level 3 and 4 “lockdown” period in New Zealand? 4. What support do you think Māori families will need once the level 4 lockdown requirements have been lifted?” A total of 3,116 Māori responded with completed surveys and answered some (or all) of the open- ended questions. The data gathered includes details of what was happening in people’s homes and lives over this unprecedented time in our history. Some surveys were completed during level 4 lockdown, and others responded once this was lifted, and during levels 3, 2 and 1. It is very clear from their answers that many families found these restrictions incredibly challenging. Yet, others found lockdown a regenerating time for themselves and their whānau. To analyse the data, all responses to the 3116 surveys were manually typed into excel spreadsheets (except from the online survey responses which were directly cut and pasted from their online responses into the excel format). Respondents’ unique numerical identifiers were retained with each answer (to ensure each answer was kept traceable to the correct survey) however like with all MIFAS data analyses all personal information was separated from the surveys before research assistants received any data. This means there was no way that research assistants, or indeed anyone in the MIFAS research team, could see the names or details of who wrote each comment. This report provides a snapshot of their responses to each of the four open ended questions above.