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
A couple consists of two people who usually reside together and are legally married, or two people who are living together as partners. Couples can be either opposite-sex, or same sex.
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
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
Labour force status is the position of all people aged 15 and over in relation to the labour market.
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 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
An occupation is a set of jobs which involve the performance of a common set of tasks. It refers to the job, trade, profession or type of work in which a person is employed for financial reward or as an unpaid worker in a family business.

Occupations are grouped together by a similar skill requirement rather than by the similarity of the type of work performed. The skill requirement of an occupation is measured by the skill level and the skill specialisation of the tasks and duties performed.

The occupation classification used - the New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations (NZSCO-95) - is based on the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO-88), modified to suit New Zealand conditions.

Information for this topic is derived from the question which asks people to state their present occupation and the tasks or duties they spend the most time on. Statistics are available for occupation major groups, sub-major groups, minor groups, unit groups and groups. It is possible to cross-classify data from NZSCO-95 with data from NZSCO-90 and NZSCO-68 and thus obtain comparable data between the 1996 and previous censuses.
Occupied dwelling
Occupier/reference person
In private dwellings, the occupier/reference person can be any responsible person. Therefore, in private dwellings, the occupier/reference person could be the person (or the partner of the person) who:

· owns the household accommodation, or
· is legally responsible for the rent of the accommodation, or
· has the private accommodation by virtue of his or her employment, or
· has the private accommodation by virtue of some relationship to an owner who is not usually resident, or
· any other responsible person.

In non-private dwellings, the occupier/reference person (for the census) is the owner, manager, or person who is in charge on census night.

In practice, in the 1996 Census, the occupier/reference person is the person who completed the dwelling questionnaire.
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
A post school qualification is an award for educational attainment which is the result of formally recognised learning. The qualification is awarded by:

· a "secondary school" or "educational institution" as defined by the Education Act 1990,
· any other organisation assessed under the auspices of the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA)
· the publicly recognised New Zealand authority of a profession, academic discipline or trade
· the recognised overseas authority of a profession, academic discipline or trade.

Private dwelling
Regional councils
Registered marriage
Religious affiliation
Remarried
Rent paid
Resident population
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
Years lived at usual residence