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
The de facto population is the population enumerated according to its actual place of residence at a given time. Visitors from overseas, who were in New Zealand on census night, are included in the de facto population. Thus the de facto population is different from the resident population, which refers to people who usually live in New Zealand.
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
Labour force
Labour force participation rate
Labour force status
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
The meshblock is the smallest geographic area used by Statistics New Zealand in the collection and processing of data. The meshblock is the building block for aggregation into larger areas such as area units, territorial authorities, regional councils, and electoral districts.

Meshblocks vary in both population and area size - from an extensive tract of sparsely populated rural land to a city block. When the New Zealand-wide system of standard meshblocks was established in 1976, meshblocks in urban areas generally contained an average of 150-200 persons while rural meshblocks generally had fewer (100-150 on average). Subsequent division of meshblocks and changes in population patterns have resulted in meshblock population counts having a considerable range.

At the 1996 Census there were 36,808 meshblocks.

Meshblocks can be categorised into: land, island, mainland, water, inland water, inlet, oceanic, and other.
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
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
There are 16 regional councils (Gisborne, Tasman and Marlborough Districts; and Nelson City are all unitary authorities. As such they are districts with the power of regional authorities.) These 16 cover every territorial authority in New Zealand with the exception of the Chatham Islands District.

Generally, regional councils contain complete territorial authorities. The geographical boundaries of the regions conform as far as practical to the boundaries of one or more water catchments. In determining regions, consideration was also given to regional communities of interest, natural resource management, land use planning, port facilities and environmental matters.
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)
For the purposes of household and family statistics, a person is temporarily absent from a dwelling if he or she is not there on census night and the occupier/reference person in the dwelling considers that person to be a usually resident household member.

Temporary private dwelling
Tenure of dwelling
Tenure of dwelling refers to the nature of occupancy of occupied private dwellings including whether or not the usual resident(s) make a payment for that occupancy. It does not include the tenure of the land on which the dwelling is situated.
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