About the Māori health workforce data

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About the Māori health workforce data

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The Ministry of Health is responsible for monitoring the number of Māori in the regulated health workforce. The New Zealand Health Information Service (NZHIS), which is part of the Ministry of Health, undertakes this activity.

Sources of workforce data
The data in this section is from workforce surveys of the regulated health workforce. Each year, the governing board of each health profession sends the survey with the invoice for an annual practising certificate or annual licence to everyone who has requested a certificate or licence

This report contains data about health professionals who were active in their professions in New Zealand. For a health professional to be defined as ‘active’ they must:

hold a current annual practicing certificate or annual license
have reported in their respective workforce survey that they are working in their profession in New Zealand.

Any professional who answered at least one question in the survey about their employment setting, their work type or the hours they worked has been included in the data for that person’s professional group.

In some occupations, survey data was not available for all years. This information will be updated each year as the data become available from the New Zealand Health Information Service.

Ethnicity
The data presented compares Māori with non-Māori. For data from surveys, prioritized ethnicity was used. A person was classified as Māori if any one of their recorded ethnicities was Māori. So for Māori, prioritised and total response output was the same. All other people were recorded as non-Māori.

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