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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.Item Te Rangahau o Te Tuakiri Māori me ngā Waiaro ā-Pūtea The Māori Identity and Financial Attitudes Study | MIFAS: Selected descriptive statistics wave 1(University of Auckland, 2020-12-06) Mika JHow does cultural identity matter for Māori economic decision-making? Te Rangahau oTe Tuakiri Māori me Nga Waiaro a-Pütea | The Māori Identity and Financial AttitudesStudy (MIFAS) aims to address this question. The MIFAS is the first large-scale (n = 7,019)nationwide study of Māori aged 18 and over that aims to correlate personal cultural beliefsand practices to economic choices. This report presents selected analyses from the first waveof data collection for MIFAS. It has been designed it to be accessible and easy to read as asupplement to academic publications. 1 The purpose of the document is to promote discussionand inform deeper data analyses. All statistical analyses in this report were conducted by Dr.Joaquín Bahamondes with support and comments from the co-authors. The initial wave of the MIFAS collected data from Māori aged 18 and over who completed a pen-and-paper questionnaire in 2017. The original MIFAS survey contained over 340 items including measures of perceptions of business success, individualism versus collectivism, materialism; attitudes towards sustainability and money; access to social capital; feelings of inclusion within Aotearoa New Zealand society; utilisation of financial products and services provided by iwi organisations versus mainstream financial institutions; financial literacy; career aspirations; political orientations; and levels of stress and other measures of health and well-being. The MIFAS research group (responsible for strategic oversight, design and day-to-day maintenance of the study) now includes; Associate Professor Carla Houkamau (Primary Investigator, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Auckland), Professor Chris Sibley (School of Psychology, University of Auckland), Dr Kiri Dell (Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Auckland), Dr Jamie Newth (Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Auckland) and Dr Jason Mika (School of Management, Massey University). The MIFAS group are most grateful to the participants in this research who have given their valuable time and energy to be part of the study. We also acknowledge the role of our close colleague and friend, Associate Professor Mānuka Hēnare (now retired). Mānuka played an important role in the early days of the MIFAS, by supporting the development of the survey and also helping interpret it. We also acknowledge support from our funders. The Royal Society of New Zealand, who awarded the Marsden Fund Grant which allowed us to start the MIFAS. The specific grant was titled, “How great can we be? Identity leaders of the Māori economic renaissance” (15-UOA-316). Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga (NPM) (New Zealand's Māori Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE) funded by the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) and hosted by The University of Auckland) supported the second round of the MIFAS survey which was sent to 5,300 Māori in July-August 2020. As noted earlier, with a data set this size, phases of interrelated data analyses are required. We have barely started to “scratch the surface”, and the data analyses process is still ongoing. Data from this study will continue to be shared as continue to deepen our understanding of how cultural identity matters for Māori economic development. Ngā mihi, Carla Houkamau, Kiri Dell, Jamie Newth, Jason Mika and Chris Sibley