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
Duration of residence in New Zealand
Dwelling
Dwelling address
Dwelling status
Economic family
Electoral boundaries
Electoral districts
Ethnicity
Extended family
An extended family is a group of related people who usually live together in the same household 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.
Familial relationship
Family nucleus
Family type
Family type differentiates family nuclei according to the presence or absence of couples, parents and children.
Fertility
Foster child
Highest school qualification
Hours of unpaid work outside the home
Hours worked in employment
Household
Household characteristics
Household composition
Household composition differentiates households according to the relationships between people in those households.
Income (total income)
Industry
Inlets and harbours, oceanic waters and islands
Internal migration
Internal migration is the movement of population within the national boundaries of a country, resulting from changes of usual residence.

Internal migration relates to people usually resident in New Zealand aged five years or more at the 1996 Census who were not living in the same subject area five years prior to the census. Excluded are persons who did not specify a usual New Zealand address for census night 1996 or five years earlier (1991) and were classified as having "no fixed abode", or had an "overseas" or "not specified New Zealand" address.
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
A person is said to have New Zealand Mäori descent if they consider they have Mäori ancestors, no matter how distant.
Marital status
Means of cooking in a dwelling
Means of heating dwelling
Means of water heating in a dwelling
Meshblocks
Motor vehicles
The number of motor vehicles available for use by household members on census night. Included are vehicles which are privately owned, hired, borrowed, leased or supplied by an employer, and vehicles that are temporarily under repair. Business vehicles if available for private use are also included.

Included are cars, station wagons, vans, trucks, utility vehicles, four-wheel drive vehicles and other vehicles used on public roads, but excluded are caravans, motorcycles, scooters, vehicles used only for business and farm vehicles such as tractors.

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
Occupier/reference person
Overseas visitor population
Parent role
Partner
A partner is a person to whom another person is legally married or with whom they are living in a defacto relationship.

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
A person who is currently legally married and has previously been legally married and subsequently divorced or widowed is said to be remarried.
Rent paid
Resident population
Rural areas
Rural centres
Rural centres have statistical boundaries (being an area unit) but have no legal status. They are rural centres with a population of 300 to 999 in a reasonably compact area which service their surrounding rural areas (district territory). Examples are Ruatoria, Waitoa and Cust.
Same-sex partners
Sector of landlord
Separated
Sex
Statistical areas
Statistical areas are broad geographic regions which do not conform to any legal or administrative boundaries, nor do they have any pre-determined population size. There are 13 statistical areas many of which conform to the old provincial districts. These areas include islands outside regions but part of 'geographic New Zealand'.

The major importance of statistical areas is in historical comparability of data from these 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
A widowed person is a person who has not remarried following the death of his or her legal husband or wife.
Workplace address
Year of arrival in New Zealand
Years lived at usual residence