Unpaid Work (Census 96) 1996

A full list of the definitions and terms used in the 1996 Census of Population and Dwellings is contained in the report An Introduction to the Census of Population and Dwellings. Refer to Statistics New Zealand for a complete list of concepts, definitions and classifications.

Absentee
Access to a telephone
Adult child
Age
Area
Area of usual residence
Area unit
Available for work
Census night address
Child
Cigarette smoking behaviour
City
A city is a territorial authority area which has a minimum population of 50,000, is predominately urban in character, is a distinct entity and a major centre of activity within its parent region.
Community board
Constituency
Country of birth
Couple
De facto marriage
De facto population
The de facto population is the population enumerated according to its actual place of residence at a given time. Visitors from overseas, who were in New Zealand on census night, are included in the de facto population. Thus the de facto population is different from the resident population, which refers to people who usually live in New Zealand.
Dependent child
District
Duration of residence in New Zealand
Dwelling
Dwelling address
Dwelling status
Economic family
Electoral boundaries
Electoral districts
Ethnicity
Extended family
Familial relationship
Family nucleus
Family type
Fertility
Foster child
A foster child is a person who receives parental care from a person(s) other than the child's natural, step or adopted parent(s) or guardian(s). A foster child can be related to his or her foster parent(s).
Highest school qualification
Hours of unpaid work outside the home
Hours worked in employment
Household
A household consists of either one person who usually resides alone or two or more people who usually reside together and share facilities (such as eating facilities, cooking facilities, bathroom and toilet facilities, a living area).
Household characteristics
Household composition
Income (total income)
Industry
Industry is the type of activity undertaken by the organisation, enterprise, business or unit of economic activity within which a person is employed. Any individual business can be assigned an appropriate industry category on the basis of its predominant activity, which is its main income-producing activity.
Inlets and harbours, oceanic waters and islands
Internal migration
Iwi
Job search methods
Labour force
Labour force participation rate
Labour force status
Language
Living arrangements
Looked for paid work
Main means of travel to work
Mäori descent
Marital status
Means of cooking in a dwelling
Means of heating dwelling
Means of water heating in a dwelling
Meshblocks
Motor vehicles
New Zealand
Never married
Non-private dwelling
A non-private dwelling is one in which a number of generally unrelated people (either individuals or families) live. Such dwellings are available to the public and include institutions and group-living quarters. Examples of non-private dwellings are hotels, motels, hospitals, prisons, school hostels, motor camps, boarding houses, ships and trains. Non-private establishments usually have common cooking and dining facilities. Lounge room and dormitories can also be shared by the occupants. Refer definition of Dwelling.
Number of children
Number of inmates or guest occupants
Number of inmates or guest occupants refers to the number of people who are inmates in prisons, penal institutions or police lock-ups and stations, and the number of people who are residents or guests in hospitals, hotels, motel complexes, private hotels, guest houses, boarding houses, rooming houses, motor camps and the like (for example, shearing quarters, work camps) on census night.
Number of occupants
Number of rooms/bedrooms
Occupation
Occupied dwelling
Occupier/reference person
Overseas visitor population
Parent role
Partner
Permanent private dwelling
Place of residence
Population resident in New Zealand
Population usually resident in area
Post school qualifications
Private dwelling
Regional councils
Registered marriage
Religious affiliation
Remarried
Rent paid
Resident population
Rural areas
Rural centres
Same-sex partners
Sector of landlord
Separated
To be separated a person must be permanently living apart from his or her legal spouse with or without a legal separation order or agreement. To be permanently living apart, a person must not usually reside with his or her legal husband or wife.
Sex
Statistical areas
Status in employment
Stepchild
Temporarily absent (household and family statistics)
For the purposes of household and family statistics, a person is temporarily absent from a dwelling if he or she is not there on census night and the occupier/reference person in the dwelling considers that person to be a usually resident household member.

Temporary private dwelling
Tenure of dwelling
Territorial authority
Total fertility rate
Total household income
Total population
Unemployed and seeking work
Unoccupied dwelling
Unpaid work
Urban areas
Usual residence
Usual residence five years ago
Visitor
Wards
Weekly rent
Widowed
Workplace address
Year of arrival in New Zealand
Years lived at usual residence