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 refers to surface area and is expressed in terms of either square kilometres (1 sq km = 0.3861 sq. miles) or hectares (1 hectare = 2.471 acres). Figures quoted in the 1996 Census statistical tables are based on the official surface areas of regions, territorial authorities, statistical areas, and urban areas prevailing at the census date, as calculated by Land Information New Zealand. Unless specifically stated they include any water areas located within territorial authority boundaries.
Area of usual residence
Area unit
Available for work
Census night address
Census night address refers to the physical address where the respondent was on census night.
Child
Cigarette smoking behaviour
City
Community board
Community boards administer the affairs of communities with populations of not less than 1,500 within rural, urban or metropolitan districts of a territorial authority.
Constituency
Country of birth
Couple
De facto marriage
De facto population
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
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
Job search methods
Job search methods refers to the methods used to look for paid work in the four weeks prior to the census.

Response categories:

· looked at job advertisements in the newspapers
· wrote, phoned or applied in person to an employer
· contacted the Department of Labour’s New Zealand Employment Service to look for a job
· contacted friends or relatives for help in finding a job
· contacted career advisers or vocational guidance officers
· other method(s), for instance: contacted other employment agency, placed an ad about a job, took steps to set up own business.
Labour force
Labour force participation rate
The labour force participation rate is the percentage of the population aged 15 years or over who were either employed or unemployed and seeking work, during the week prior to the census.
Labour force status
Language
A person’s ability to speak and understand spoken or sign 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
Number of children
Number of inmates or guest occupants
Number of occupants
Number of rooms/bedrooms
Occupation
Occupied dwelling
A dwelling is defined as occupied if it is:

· occupied at midnight on census night or
· occupied at any time during the 12 hours following midnight on census night unless the occupant(s) completed a questionnaire at another dwelling during this period.

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
Resident population refers to all people counted during a census who usually live in New Zealand excluding people who usually live overseas and New Zealand residents overseas.
Rural areas
Rural centres
Same-sex partners
Sector of landlord
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
Year of arrival in New Zealand is the year that a respondent who was born outside New Zealand first arrived in New Zealand as a permanent or long-term resident.
Years lived at usual residence