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Ethnicity
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Description
the ethnic group(s) that people identify with or feel they belong to. It is a measure of cultural affiliation rather than race, ancestry, nationality, or citizenship.
See New Zealand Standard Classification of Ethnicity 2005 for more information.
This release uses level 1 of the ‘total response’ classification. Respondents determined their own ethnic groups and could identify with more than one.
Total response counts the number of responses for each ethnic group, not the number of people. This means that people who told us they belonged to more than one ethnic group would be counted in each of those ethnic groups.
For confidentiality and analytical reasons, we’ve used the four major ethnic groups: European, Māori, Pacific peoples, and Asian.
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