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Research

Research Strategy

For policy to consider New Zealand's growing and diverse communities, it needs to be informed and substantiated by supporting data and research. In response to this, the OEA has developed a Research Strategy is to identify key research areas, priorities, relationships and opportunities for research on the ethnic sector.

The purpose of the OEA Research Strategy would be:

• To promote and facilitate the collection of robust ethnicity data and information on the ethnic sector and its needs, for more effective policy and service development by government.

The OEA is seeking to lead the development of an ethnic sector research agenda in collaboration with academics and other agencies.

To do this OEA has so far:

• carried out a stocktake of previous research on the Ethnic sector in New Zealand to identify gaps; and
• facilitated an Academic Research Forum for researchers to discuss the data gap, coordination of future research and possible focuses.

Internal

OEA Policy has a Research and Evaluation Strategy for internal work which includes monitoring of Language Line use and annual surveys of community stakeholders concerning the OEA advisory services.

The OEA Research Programme

Improving Policy-Related Research and Analysis about and with Ethnic Communities

OEA is contracting research through funding granted from the Cross-Departmental Research Pool (CDRP). The audit of EPP implementation revealed that the major challenge for government agencies is the lack of policy-related ethnicity data. OEA was successful with a proposal to the CDRP to carry out a scoping study that will identify gaps in New Zealand ethnicity data, appropriate data collection methodologies, and guidelines for approaching ethnicity as a variable in the research and policy context. This is part of the OEA Research Strategy to address the lack of quality ethnicity data and evidence-based policy.

The OEA Indicators Project

To develop a robust set of indicators to measure key issues related to the ethnic sector. This project is being conducted in partnership with Massey University.

Mapping Exercise – Christchurch

OEA Christchurch is carrying out a stocktake in conjunction with MSD: Family and Community Services and the Christchurch City Council. The mapping exercise seeks to identify all ethnic associations, their roles, capabilities and capacity-building needs, in the Christchurch city region. This will involve interviewing members from over 130 ethnic associations.

Diversity Forum - Researchers Workshop 2006

OEA co-facilitated the session

Quality of Life Survey

OEA requested that DIA Research and Evaluation anaylse the Quality of Life Survey by ethnicity.

ACC research - working with Asian communities

NYPD

Ethnic Diversity in New Zealand

• A Statistical Profile: A 1999 report on main population groups in the Ethnic Sector, prepared for the Ethnic Affairs Service, based on information from the Census of Population and Dwellings, 1996.

These documents are in pdf format. You need to have the Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. You can download a free version from the Adobe site.

Longitudinal Immigration Survey New Zealand (LisNZ)

• Longitudinal Immigration Survey NZ(LisNZ): Migrants who have made this country ‘home’ are important to New Zealand’s heritage, culture and economy. The Department of Labour and Statistics New Zealand are finding out about new migrants’ settlement experiences – both good and bad. By telling their stories, migrants will help the Government, and those agencies providing services to migrants, identify how to make settling in New Zealand more successful for future migrants. The information will also be used to help assess the impacts of immigration on New Zealand’s society and economy. Therefore the main aim of the survey is to provide reliable data about migrants' initial settlement experiences in New Zealand, and the outcomes of immigration policies. This information will be used to improve immigration selection and settlement policies.