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
Community board
Constituency
Country of birth
Couple
De facto marriage
De facto population
Dependent child
District
District refers to a territorial authority that is neither wholly urban nor wholly rural and which is under the jurisdiction of a district council.
Duration of residence in New Zealand
Dwelling
Dwelling address
Dwelling address consists of the distinguishing details of the physical location of a dwelling for the purposes of the data collection and can include street number, name, and type; suburb or rural locality; and city, town or district.

Dwelling status
Economic family
Electoral boundaries
Electoral districts
Ethnicity
Extended family
Familial relationship
Family nucleus
Family type
Fertility
Foster child
Highest school qualification
Hours of unpaid work outside the home
Hours worked in employment
Household
Household characteristics
Household composition
Income (total income)
Industry
Inlets and harbours, oceanic waters and islands
Internal migration
Iwi
The iwi is the focal economic and political unit of the traditional Mäori descent- and kinship-based hierarchy of:

· waka (founding canoe)
· iwi (tribe)
· hapu (sub-tribe)
· whanau (family).
Job search methods
Labour force
Labour force participation rate
Labour force status
Language
Living arrangements
The relationships (marital, familial, and non-familial) the respondent has to all the people with whom he or she usually resides.

Living arrangements response categories:

· legal husband or wife
· partner or de facto, girlfriend or boyfriend
· mother
· father
· sons(s)
· daughter(s)
· sister(s)
· brother(s)
· other persons (such as flatmates)
· none of these.
Looked for paid work
Main means of travel to work
Mäori descent
Marital status
Means of cooking in a dwelling
Means of cooking in a dwelling refers to the types of fuel or energy used for cooking in a dwelling.
Means of heating dwelling
Means of water heating in a dwelling
Meshblocks
Motor vehicles
New Zealand
Never married
Never married means a person who has never been registered as married.
Non-private dwelling
Number of children
Number of children is a count of all children usually resident in the dwelling. It includes both adult and dependent children.

Number of inmates or guest occupants
Number of occupants
Number of rooms/bedrooms
Occupation
Occupied dwelling
Occupier/reference person
Overseas visitor population
The overseas visitor population is defined as those people whose usual residence is overseas, but excludes those people whose usual residence is overseas and who are:

· working in New Zealand
· looking for work in New Zealand
· non-New Zealand diplomats or members of their staff
· members of non-New Zealand armed forces stationed in New Zealand.
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
Sector of landlord is the section of the economy which best describes the owner of the dwelling (as selected by the respondent from the options listed in the question).
Separated
Sex
Statistical areas
Status in employment
Stepchild
Temporarily absent (household and family statistics)
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
Years at usual residence is the length of time in completed years (ignoring temporary absences) that a respondent has lived at their current usual residence.