Te Hoe Nuku Roa

He reo no Io i rängona whïtikia te moana,
Tera te whenua kua tohia mo koutou kei te uru
Ko Io taketake hei whetu mo te pö
Ko Tangaroa hei arahi mai i runga o
te Moana-nui-ä-Kiwa
TE HOE NUKU ROA e.

Introduction

In 1992 staff of the Department of Mäori Studies, Massey University, in response to pressure from tribes and other Mäori groups, recognised the need for a longitudinal study of Mäori households which would enable cultural, economic and personal factors to be correlated. Three years funding from the Public Good Science Fund enabled the study, known as Best Outcomes for Maori Te Hoe Nuku Roa, to begin in July 1994 and by 2004 had completed three rounds of interviews with over 550 households.

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