Glossary

Dependent child: defined in the 1996 Census as a person who is aged under 18 and who is not in full-time employment.

Employed: includes all people aged 15 and over in employment for pay, profit or payment in kind, or those people who worked unpaid in a family business.

Extended family: a group of related people who usually reside together and consists of: a family nucleus and one or more other related people, or two or more related family nuclei, with or without other related people.

Family nucleus: consists of two or more people, who are members of the same household, and who comprise either a couple, or at least one parent role/child relationship, or both. The term 'family' is used as an abbreviation of 'family nucleus'.

Full-time employment: 30 hours or more of work per week.

Household: a private permanent dwelling consisting of either one person who usually resides alone or two or more people who usually reside together and share facilities. This may include non-family households such as flats, as well as couples without children. It does not include people living in establishments such as hotels, hostels or other institutions, caravans or tents, or people who are not New Zealand residents.

Household income: the average amount of money coming into the household before tax from all household members. This includes wages and salaries, welfare payments, interest, and dividends.

Labour force: all persons aged 15 and over who regularly work for one or more hours per week for financial gain, or as an unpaid worker in a family business. Also included are people who are unemployed, actively seeking and available to work either full-time or part-time.

Labour force participation rate: the percentage of the population aged 15 and over who are either employed or unemployed and actively seeking work, during the week prior to the census.

Main urban area: has a minimum population of 30,000.

Māori ethnic group: people who identify in the census as either Māori only or Māori and at least one other ethnicity (that is, sole Māori plus mixed Māori).

Māori household: a household is defined as Māori if the occupier (identified by the household members) identifies Māori as one of his or her ethnic groups. This means that a Māori household may include non-Māori members, and a non-Māori household may include Māori members.

Minor urban area: has a population ranging from 1,000 to 9,999 people.

Part-time employment: fewer than 30 hours of work per week.

Post-compulsory education and training (PCET): includes formal tertiary programmes leading to a recognized qualification, as provided by colleges of education, polytechnics, universities, wānanga and private training establishments (PTEs). It also includes other training programmes provided through training opportunities programmes (TOPs).

Real median income: median income which has been adjusted for inflation.

Rural areas: areas that are not specifically designated as 'urban' and have a population of under 1,000 people. Includes rural centres, inlets, and islands which are outside urban areas.

Secondary urban area: has a population ranging from 10,000 to 29,999 people.

Self-employed: people who work in their own business without employees and people who employ others and are known as employers.

Total fertility rate (TFR): in a particular year indicates the average number of children a woman would expect to have during her lifetime if she was exposed to the age-specific fertility rates for that year.

Unemployed: people who are not working in a paid job, business, farm or profession at census date, but have actively looked for either full-time or part-time work in the preceding four weeks and would have started work in the week preceding the census had a job been available.

Unemployment rate: the number of unemployed people expressed as a percentage of the labour force.

Women: in this report, the term 'women' includes females of all ages unless otherwise stated.

Working age population: those people aged 15 and over who are usually resident in New Zealand, and who are not in institutions.

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