Kapiti Coast District

This section provides people and indicator data for Kapiti Coast District.

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People data for Kapiti Coast District
Ethnicity by age, proportion in the area and sex: Census 2006, Estimated population change, births, deaths and natural increase from 1996, Projected population change, Household composition

Indicator data for Kapiti Coast District

Health: Life expectancy, Cigarette smoking

Knowledge and Skills: Participation in early childhood education, School leavers with higher qualifications, Educational attainment of the adult population

Paid Work: Workplace injury claims

Economic Standard of Living: Population with low incomes, Household crowding

Civil and Political Rights: Voter turnout - local authority elections, Representation of women in local government

Cultural Identity: Māori language speakers, Language retention

Physical Environment: Drinking water quality

Safety: Road casualties

Social Connectedness: Telephone and internet access in the home

People data for Kapiti Coast District

Ethnicity by age, proportion in the area and sex: Census 2006

Ethnicity	European		Māori		Pacific		Asian		Other		Total
Age	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
0 - 14	7,659	18.7	1,992	36.3	441	45.8	303	28.3	39	36.1	8,943	19.4
15 - 24	3,642	8.9	939	17.1	156	16.2	147	13.7	9	8.3	4,383	9.5
25 - 44	8,715	21.3	1,383	25.2	228	23.7	339	31.7	42	38.9	10,254	22.2
45 - 64	10,719	26.2	855	15.6	108	11.2	210	19.6	15	13.9	11,862	25.7
65 - 74	4,986	12.2	222	4.1	27	2.8	48	4.5	6	5.6	5,352	11.6
75+	5,142	12.6	90	1.6	6	0.6	33	3.1	6	5.6	5,394	11.7
Total	40,866	100.0	5,481	100.0	963	100.0	1,071	100.0	108	100.0	46,197	100.0
Ethnic % in the area	91.5		12.3		2.2		2.4		0.2		108.6
Sex
Male	18,981	46.4	2,562	46.7	453	47.0	477	44.5	60	55.6	21,486	46.5
Female	21,885	53.6	2,916	53.2	513	53.3	591	55.2	48	44.4	24,714	53.5
		100.0		100.0		100.0		100.0		100.0		100.0

Estimated population change, births, deaths and natural increase from 1996

Year	Estimated resident population at June	Population change		Registered births December year	Registered deaths December year	Natural increase December year
Year	Estimated resident population at June	Number	%	Registered births December year	Registered deaths December year	Natural increase December year
1996	39,400	-	-	477	407	70
1997	40,300	900	2.3	452	466	-14
1998	41,200	900	2.2	501	422	79
1999	41,900	700	1.7	482	445	37
2000	42,700	800	1.9	520	452	68
2001	43,600	900	2.1	513	468	45
2002	44,300	700	1.6	443	494	-51
2003	45,100	800	1.8	489	460	29
2004	45,900	800	1.8	504	502	2
2005	46,700	800	1.7	484	467	17
2006	47,500	800	1.7	487	472	15
2007	48,000	500	1.1	541	527	14
2008	48,400	400	0.8	559	528	31

Projected population change

Variant	Population at 30 June						Change 2006 - 2031
Variant	2006	2011	2016	2021	2026	2031	Number	%
High		51,700	55,600	59,400	63,200	66,800	19,300	41.0
Medium	47,500	50,500	53,200	55,800	58,300	60,700	13,200	28.0
Low		49,200	50,700	52,200	53,600	54,800	7,300	15.0

Household composition

Household composition	1986		1991		1996		2001		2006
Household composition	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
Couples with children	3,627	33.2	4,044	30.3	3,936	26.5	3,969	23.3	4,251	22.6
Couples without children	3,672	33.6	4,401	33.0	5,034	33.9	5,727	33.6	6,378	33.9
Multi-family	90	0.8	135	1.0	216	1.5	177	1.0	237	1.3
One parent family	714	6.5	1,173	8.8	1,506	10.1	1,923	11.3	2,019	10.7
One person	2,508	22.9	3,156	23.7	3,771	25.4	4,746	27.9	5,457	29.0
Other multi-person	315	2.9	423	3.2	393	2.6	480	2.8	462	2.5
Total	10,929	100.0	13,332	100.0	14,856	100.0	17,022	100.0	18,807	100.0

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Indicator data for Kapiti Coast District

Health

Life expectancy

Life expectancy at birth indicates the total number of years a person could expect to live, based on the mortality rates of the population at each age in a given year or period.

	1995 - 1997		2000 - 2002		2005 - 2007
	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female
Life expectancy at birth (years)	74.8	81.6	77.6	82.3	78.8	84.3

Cigarette smoking

The proportion (%) of the population in the area aged 15 years and over who currently smoke cigarettes.

The age-standardised prevalence (%) of cigarette smoking by sex

Year	Male		Female		Total
Year	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
1981	2,871	33.3	2,796	30.7	5,676	32.0
1996	2,892	25.7	3,234	25.9	6,123	25.8
2006	2,913	23.1	3,336	23.2	6,252	23.1

The age-specific prevalence (%) of cigarette smoking (not age-standardised)

Year	15 - 24		25 - 44		45 - 64		65+
Year	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
1981	1,086	33.5	2,100	34.8	1,671	30.2	819	18.0
1996	963	27.9	2,793	31.2	1,638	20.3	729	9.5
2006	1,035	25.8	2,556	26.8	2,010	18.2	651	6.6

The age-standardised prevalence (%) of cigarette smoking by ethnicity 2006

Sex	European		Māori		Pacific		Asian		Other		Total
Sex	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
Male	2,166	22.4	510	34.0	84	35.5	57	18.6	366	19.8	2,913	23.2
Female	2,556	22.6	726	39.5	84	28.6	42	11.0	336	17.4	3,336	23.2
Total	4,737	22.5	1,233	36.9	165	31.1	105	15.1	690	18.4	6,252	23.1

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Knowledge and Skills

Participation in early childhood education

The number of 3 and 4 year olds enrolled in early childhood education centres or home-based education programmes as a proportion of all 3 and 4 year olds, and the number and proportion of Year 1 students who indicated they have attended some form of early childhood education.

"Apparent" participation rate, 3 and 4 year olds (numbers can add to more than 100%)

Year	Participation rate %			Number enrolled
Year	3 year	4 year	Total	3 year	4 year	Total
2001	102	102	102	576	526	1,102
2002	98	106	102	528	617	1,145
2003	95	107	101	551	610	1,161
2004	104	105	105	581	633	1,214
2005	101	111	106	523	635	1,158
2006	106	110	108	563	586	1,149
2007	102	96	99	570	557	1,127
2008	103	105	104	577	600	1,177

Early childhood attendance by Year 1 students, by ethnic group

Year	European		Māori		Pacific		Asian		Other		Total
Year	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
2000	445	99.3	77	93.9	7	100.0	12	100.0	1	100.0	542	98.5
2001	489	99.8	89	94.7	11	91.7	10	100.0	1	100.0	600	98.8
2002	389	98.0	126	92.6	8	100.0	11	100.0	2	100.0	537	96.8
2003	425	98.6	120	96.8	9	90.0	15	93.8	5	100.0	575	98.0
2004	427	98.4	122	98.4	15	100.0	7	70.0	4	100.0	575	98.0
2005	440	99.5	136	97.1	15	100.0	22	95.7	3	100.0	616	98.9
2006	448	99.1	135	98.5	11	100.0	10	83.3	9	100.0	613	98.7
2007	382	99.0	102	92.7	13	92.9	21	100.0	11	100.0	529	97.6
2008	396	98.8	129	96.3	23	100.0	26	100.0	18	100.0	592	98.3

School leavers with higher qualifications

The proportion of school leavers who had attained a qualification at National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) Level 2 or above, and the proportion who leave with Bursary and above.

School leavers with higher qualifications, by sex

Year	NCEA Level 2 or higher				Bursary or higher
	Sex (%)		Total		Sex (%)		Total
	Male	Female	Number	%	Male	Female	Number	%
2005	48.5	58.0	326	53.4	21.3	27.0	148	24.3
2006	50.2	64.2	353	56.9	22.1	37.1	182	29.4
2007	56.7	67.4	344	62.1	22.9	41.2	178	32.1

School leavers with higher qualifications, by ethnicity

NCEA Level 2 or higher

Year	European		Māori		Pacific		Asian		Other		Total
Year	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
2005	269	56.8	43	37.7	3	27.3	9	100.0	2	100.0	326	53.4
2006	284	61.2	53	40.8	6	42.9	8	80.0	2	100.0	353	56.9
2007	269	67.4	59	44.7	6	75.0	9	64.3	1	100.0	344	62.1

Bursary or higher

Year	European		Māori		Pacific		Asian		Other		Total
Year	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
2005	129	27.2	11	9.6	1	9.1	6	66.7	1	50.0	148	24.3
2006	152	32.8	18	13.8	3	21.4	8	80.0	1	50.0	182	29.4
2007	145	36.3	22	16.7	4	50.0	6	42.9	1	100.0	178	32.1

Educational attainment of the adult population

The proportion of adults aged 25 - 64 years with an educational attainment of at least upper secondary school level.

Proportion (%) and number aged 25 - 64 with higher qualifications, by age and sex, 2006

Sex	25 - 44		45 - 64		25 - 64
Sex	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
At least upper secondary
Male	3,555	82.5	4,128	79.2	7,680	80.7
Female	4,641	87.8	4,386	75.0	9,030	81.1
Total	8,196	85.5	8,514	77.0	16,710	80.9
At least tertiary
Male	753	17.5	900	17.3	1,656	17.4
Female	1,125	21.3	876	15.0	2,001	18.0
Total	1,881	19.6	1,776	16.1	3,657	17.7

Proportion (%) and number aged 25 - 64 with higher qualifications, by ethnic group and year

Year	European		Māori		Pacific		Asian		Other		Total
Year	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
At least upper secondary
1986	7,518	63.8	333	42.5	33	55.0	57	45.2	6	100.0	7,848	62.3
1991	9,783	68.0	525	46.4	57	55.9	114	51.4	12	100.0	10,305	66.2
1996	10,559	65.6	876	53.5	141	60.3	168	54.4	27	69.2	11,166	64.1
2001	13,080	77.7	1,140	66.9	183	71.8	285	77.2	33	91.7	14,107	76.7
2006	15,384	81.9	1,464	70.4	231	74.0	417	83.2	51	94.4	16,710	80.9
At least tertiary
1986	765	6.5	18	2.3	6	10.0	15	11.9	3	50.0	792	6.3
1991	1,146	8.0	36	3.2	3	2.9	33	14.9	6	50.0	1,203	7.7
1996	1,478	9.2	63	3.9	15	6.4	45	14.6	9	23.1	1,556	8.9
2001	2,228	13.2	159	9.3	21	8.2	72	19.5	9	25.0	2,398	13.0
2006	3,312	17.6	282	13.6	30	9.6	147	29.3	24	44.4	3,657	17.7

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Paid Work

Workplace injury claims

The number of workplace accident insurance claims reported to the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC), excluding those employees who received accident and emergency treatment only.

December year	Number of claims by sex			% of claims by sex
December year	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female
2002	705	249	954	73.9	26.1
2003	793	312	1,105	71.8	28.2
2004	829	344	1,173	70.7	29.3
2005	933	378	1,311	71.2	28.8
2006	906	372	1,278	70.9	29.1
2007	931	376	1,307	71.2	28.8

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Economic Standard of Living

Population with low incomes

The proportion of people living in households with real gross income less than 60 per cent of the median household equivalised national income benchmarked at 2001.

Population with low incomes, by ethnicity

Year	European		Māori		Pacific		Asian		Other		Total
Year	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
1986	4,131	18.5	417	26.3	21	13.7	51	21.5	0	0.0	4,560	19.1
1991	6,048	23.2	690	32.3	75	35.2	69	19.3	6	28.6	6,735	23.8
1996	6,855	23.8	1,116	35.5	174	36.7	171	32.9	24	33.3	7,671	24.7
2001	6,102	19.8	1,164	32.9	204	35.6	183	29.2	15	23.8	7,059	20.9
2006	6,216	18.0	1,044	25.4	204	28.1	210	24.4	18	20.0	7,104	18.9

Population with low incomes, by age

Year	0 - 14		15 - 24		25 - 44		45 - 64		65+		Total
Year	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
1986	1,026	20.1	207	7.9	687	12.1	864	15.8	1,776	35.6	4,560	19.1
1991	1,512	25.3	423	14.1	1,083	14.7	1,218	20.0	2,499	42.7	6,735	23.8
1996	2,073	30.8	498	18.1	1,434	18.5	1,329	18.9	2,334	34.6	7,671	24.7
2001	2,082	28.9	414	16.3	1,365	17.0	1,203	14.5	1,995	26.1	7,059	20.9
2006	1,590	21.4	432	13.6	1,062	12.7	1,278	12.9	2,748	31.1	7,104	18.9

Population with low incomes, by sex

Year	Male		Female
Year	Number	%	Number	%
1986	1,953	17.0	2,610	21.1
1991	2,787	20.5	3,948	26.9
1996	3,159	21.5	4,509	27.6
2001	2,808	17.8	4,254	23.7
2006	3,045	17.4	4,059	20.1

Household crowding

The proportion of the population living in crowded housing (ie requiring one or more additional bedrooms, as defined by the Canadian Crowding Index).

Household crowding, by ethnicity

Year	European		Māori		Pacific		Asian		Other		Total
Year	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
1986	1,614	6.4	429	20.8	57	26.8	33	11.5	0	0.0	2,082	7.5
1991	1,581	5.3	609	21.5	63	22.8	69	16.3	0	0.0	2,274	6.8
1996	1,460	4.6	633	16.1	85	13.5	100	15.8	9	11.4	2,052	5.7
2001	1,317	3.8	696	15.7	144	20.1	99	12.7	3	4.2	2,082	5.2
2006	1,209	3.2	681	13.5	162	18.3	111	10.9	3	2.9	1,926	4.5

Household crowding, by age

Year	0 - 9		10 - 14		15 - 24		25 - 44		45 - 64		65+		Total
Year	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
1986	456	11.8	288	12.0	504	15.0	567	8.2	225	3.7	48	0.9	2,082	7.5
1991	603	11.9	246	10.7	519	13.4	600	6.7	246	3.5	69	1.1	2,274	6.8
1996	628	11.6	225	9.0	345	9.6	629	6.9	181	2.2	44	0.6	2,052	5.7
2001	597	10.7	291	9.5	333	9.6	606	6.3	204	2.1	45	0.5	2,082	5.2
2006	492	9.1	240	7.5	396	9.7	486	5.0	249	2.2	60	0.6	1,926	4.5

Household crowding, by sex

Year	Male		Female
Year	Number	%	Number	%
1986	1,032	7.7	1,053	7.4
1991	1,116	6.9	1,158	6.7
1996	989	5.8	1,063	5.6
2001	984	5.3	1,098	5.2
2006	918	4.6	1,005	4.4

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Civil and Political Rights

Voter turnout - local authority elections

The proportion of all enrolled electors (both resident and ratepayer) who cast a vote in territorial authority elections.

Election year	1989	1992	1995	1998	2001	2004	2007
Voter turnout (%)	59.0	61.0	57.8	61.0	63.0	51.0	53.0

Representation of women in local government

The proportion of female council and mayoral candidates, and elected members or mayors, in local authority elections.

Election activity	2001				2004				2007
	Council		Mayor		Council		Mayor		Council		Mayor
	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
Women candidates	7	24.0	2	33.0	9	26.0	1	25.0	10	36.0	2	29.0
Women voted in	4	29.0	0	n/a	4	40.0	0	n/a	7	70.0	1	n/a

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Cultural Identity

Māori language speakers

The number of Māori who can hold a conversation about everyday things in Māori, as a proportion of the Māori population, and the total number of Māori speakers as a proportion of the total population.

Speakers of Māori		0 - 14		15 - 29		30 - 49		50 - 64		65+		Total
Speakers of Māori		Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
1996	Māori	354	20.3	228	24.0	222	21.9	105	29.4	48	29.1	957	22.6
1996	Total population	429	5.2	303	5.3	303	3.0	129	2.1	72	0.9	1,221	3.2
2001	Māori	435	21.7	327	32.5	336	27.7	135	30.6	72	36.4	1,287	26.5
2001	Total population	507	5.7	402	7.4	456	4.1	180	2.4	81	0.9	1,620	3.8
2006	Māori	396	19.9	336	27.9	423	29.4	159	29.9	93	30.4	1,407	25.7
	Total population	453	5.1	411	7.0	525	4.4	213	2.4	132	1.2	1,740	3.8

Language retention

The proportion of people who can speak the "first language" (excluding English) of their ethnic group, for ethnic groups (other than Māori) with an established resident population in New Zealand.

	Born in NZ		Overseas born		Total
	2001	2006	2001	2006	2001	2006
Language retention (%)	16.0	14.4	76.8	75.0	42.6	40.8

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Physical Environment

Drinking water quality (can be more than 100% and highly variable)

The proportion of the estimated resident population who receive their water from community water supplies whose drinking water complies with either the 2000 or 2005 Drinking-water standards for New Zealand relating to E. coli and Cryptosporidium.

Year	E. coli (%)	Cryptosporidium (%)
2001	92.4	73.1
2002	91.8	71.9
2003	90.3	70.6
2004	88.0	0.0
2005	38.6	0.0
2006/2007	84.4	66.9
2007/2008	83.8	65.9

Safety

Road casualties

The number of people injured or killed in motor vehicle crashes per 100,000 of the total population.

Year	Injuries		Deaths
Year	Number	Rate per 100,000	Rate per 100,000
2001	87	204.7	23.5
2002	122	274.8	13.5
2003	99	219.0	6.6
2004	124	268.4	13.0
2005	121	257.4	10.6
2006	144	301.3	8.4
2007	134	279.2	6.3
2008	101	208.7	2.1

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Social Connectedness

Telephone and internet access in the home

The proportion of the population with telephone and internet access in the home.

Telephone access (%)

Year	Ethnicity					Sex		Age					Total
Year	European	Māori	Pacific	Asian	Other	Male	Female	0 - 14	15 - 24	25 - 44	45 - 64	65+	Total
1996	97.9	89.5	89.9	98.1	100.0	96.8	97.3	95.7	95.5	96.5	98.2	98.8	97.1
2001	98.5	92.8	89.7	96.5	92.0	97.6	98.1	97.3	95.8	97.1	98.7	99.3	97.9
2006	99.2	96.5	97.3	99.4	97.0	98.7	99.1	98.7	98.4	98.6	99.2	99.5	98.9

Internet access (%)

Year	Ethnicity					Sex		Age					Total
Year	European	Māori	Pacific	Asian	Other	Male	Female	0 - 14	15 - 24	25 - 44	45 - 64	65+	Total
2001	47.3	33.3	38.8	44.8	60.0	48.3	44.5	53.3	51.9	53.2	51.9	22.8	46.3
2006	72.3	59.1	61.6	73.5	87.9	72.9	69.5	78.8	72.8	77.0	78.3	49.3	71.1

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