Charlotte (investigator)
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first heard Mar 2014
last heard Mar 2014
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Yeah, the figure of one million Maasai is reported all over the place.
I spoke to Ernestina Coast, an associate professor of population studies at the London School of Economics, and she traced the number back to a report from 1998, but it didn't give any evidence for where that number comes from.
Yes, there were around 840,000 people who identified themselves as Maasai in Kenya's census of 2009.
Unfortunately, in Tanzania, the census doesn't ask for ethnic group or tribe, so we don't have a figure for them.
Ernestina explains why.
Some even doubt the Kenya number.
I spoke to Kakuta, founder of the Maasai Association.
He says because of a Maasai tradition of not telling people how many children a family has, not all Maasai will be counted in the census.
The data comes from a survey from 2012 looking at the literacy and numeracy skills of 15 to 64-year-olds.
I asked Dr Bruce Caldwell from the Australian Bureau of Statistics if it was fair to say half of Tasmanians are innumerate and illiterate.
And he said... No, it is not.
The research was actually part of a larger international survey run by the OECD.
So I asked its senior analyst, William Thorne, if it was fair to say that half of Tasmanians cannot read or write properly.
The survey ranked participants in five levels of competency, one being the lowest, five the highest.
Some have argued that ideally people should be at level three to be able to cope in a modern economy.
On that basis, half of Tasmanians did not reach that level.
But according to Bruce and William, that doesn't mean you're illiterate.
Even people at level one can read a newspaper.
Thanks, Charlotte.
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