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
Area units are aggregations of meshblocks. They are non-administrative areas intermediate between meshblocks and territorial authorities. Area units must either define, or aggregate to urban areas, rural areas, statistical areas, territorial authorities and regional councils.

The maximum total population of an area unit is approximately 5,000. Each area unit is a single geographic entity with a unique name.
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
Dwelling status refers to the occupancy status of a dwelling on census night; occupied or unoccupied.
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
Labour force
Labour force participation rate
Labour force status
Language
Living arrangements
Looked for paid work
Looked for paid work includes undertaking some of the following in the four weeks prior to the census:

· looked at job advertisements in the newspapers,
· wrote, phoned or applied in person to an employer,
· contacted the Department of Labour’s NZ 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.
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
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
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
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
A visitor to a dwelling is a person who is present in a dwelling on census night but who does not usually reside in that dwelling.
Wards
Weekly rent
Widowed
Workplace address
Year of arrival in New Zealand
Years lived at usual residence