Date/Time
Date(s) - Mon 14 September
9:40 - 14:30
Location
Statistics New Zealand, 8 Willis St, Wellington
Compass Research Centre are running their 20th annual COMPASS Colloquium.
Please click below to register to attend. They have capacity for 60 people to attend in person, so do make sure you get your name on the list. They will also be livestreaming the event via Teams for those that cannot make it to Wellington.
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See the planned presentations for the day below.
9:40–10:00: Morning tea (catered)
10:00–10:20: Introduction to COMPASS
Professor Barry Milne, Director, COMPASS Research Centre
10:20–10:30: History and Background of the COMPASS Colloquium
Andrew Sporle, iNZight Analytics Director
10:30–11:00: Long-Term Consequences of Perinatal Depression
Dr Stephanie D’Souza, COMPASS Senior Lecturer
Perinatal depression affects 11.9–26.3% of mothers, but its longer-term consequences remain poorly understood. Using data from the Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI), Dr D’Souza examines long-term health, socioeconomic, and family outcomes among mothers with and without perinatal depression, and women with depression outside the perinatal period. Perinatal depression was associated with poorer long-term health and family outcomes and a distinct pattern of outcomes compared with non‑perinatal depression, highlighting the need for sustained maternal mental health support.
11:00–11:30: Identifying “Justice Gaps” for Tamariki, Rangatahi, and Wāhine in Aotearoa New Zealand
Dr Lisa Underwood, COMPASS Senior Research Fellow
In response to a request from the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, this research project is exploring inequities in how the criminal justice system responds to wāhine and the impact this has on their children. The IDI part of the project asks: which communities are affected by disproportionate levels of incarceration?; how do criminal justice outcomes for women compare to those for men?; and what is the impact of incarceration on women and their children? We focus here on the education outcomes of children whose parents have been managed by the Department of Corrections.
11:30–12:00: Childhood and Adolescent Health Predictors of Adult ME/CFS and Long COVID
Dr Natalia Boven, COMPASS Research Fellow
Myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and Long COVID are complex multisystem illnesses. Dr Boven uses data from the IDI to test whether childhood and adolescent health conditions involving immune dysfunction are associated with greater risk of ME/CFS and/or high primary care service use following COVID-19 infection (a proxy measure of Long COVID) in young adults, using IDI data. Dr Boven provides an overview of key findings, discuss potential implications for diagnosis and prevention of ME/CFS and Long COVID, and outline important data limitations.
12:00–12:30: Harnessing the Integrated Data Infrastructure for Intergenerational Social Mobility Research
Dr Nicole Satherley, iNZight Analytics Research Lead
Intergenerational social mobility describes the association between children’s socioeconomic outcomes and those of their parents. Understanding the factors associated with upward and downward mobility is important for addressing social issues such as persistent socioeconomic disadvantage. This research project develops methods for intergenerational research in the IDI, documents patterns in mobility, and examines factors associated with upward and downward mobility. Here Dr Satherley covers methods and results of joining parent‑child data, national and ethnic sub‑population data coverage, and findings from preliminary models of intergenerational mobility.
12:30–13:20: Lunch (catered)
13:20–13:50: Disadvantage and Despair: Evidence from the IDI and the Dunedin Study
Professor Barry Milne, COMPASS Director
Neighbourhood disadvantage has been associated with deaths of despair (deaths from suicides, drug and alcohol deaths). These associations could result from selection effects, whereby at-risk individuals are more likely to live in deprived areas, or result from the concentration of social and environmental risks elevating risk for deaths of despair. This study used data from the IDI and from the Dunedin Study to test whether associations between neighbourhood disadvantage and deaths of despair (and a preceding ‘syndrome of despair’) are best explained by selection effects or through other mechanisms.
13:50–14:30: Twenty Years of COMPASS Research & Colloquia
Martin von Randow, COMPASS Data Manager & Professor Barry Milne, COMPASS Director
To mark the occasion of this, their 20th annual colloquium, COMPASS celebrates the history of COMPASS from its origins in the early 2000s. They discuss common project streams and methodologies, extra‑curricular activities such as short courses and data archives, and stories of COMPASS’s long history of working with Stats NZ. THey also look back and highlight presentations and stories from some of the 19 previous colloquia.