CEWH submission on proposed data collection approach and content for the census

Without a Tiriti informed gendered lens, women’s homelessness, and more specifically wāhine Māori, will remain largely invisible in general housing policy.

In the absence of other publicly available gender-disaggregated data on housing, Census data has proven critical.

Moving away from the traditional Census approach and relying on incomplete administrative datasets as the primary source of information risks producing misleading statistics that obscure the true scale and nature of homelessness in Aotearoa and further diminish the visibility of wāhine Māori within the data system.

Read our submission here.