Marlborough District

This section provides people and indicator data for Marlborough District.

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People data for Marlborough 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 Marlborough 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 Marlborough 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	7,062	18.6	1,395	32.6	261	40.7	138	21.6	39	19.4	7,923	18.6
15 - 24	3,972	10.4	714	16.7	126	19.6	108	16.9	45	22.4	4,638	10.9
25 - 44	9,411	24.7	1,173	27.4	162	25.2	264	41.3	99	49.3	10,866	25.5
45 - 64	11,136	29.3	777	18.2	81	12.6	123	19.2	15	7.5	12,243	28.8
65 - 74	3,489	9.2	150	3.5	9	1.4	9	1.4	0	0	3,750	8.8
75+	2,967	7.8	63	1.5	3	0.5	0	0.0	3	1.5	3,129	7.4
Total	38,031	100.0	4,275	100.0	642	100.0	639	100.0	201	100.0	42,549	100.0
Ethnic % in the area	93.1		10.5		1.6		1.6		0.5		107.2
Sex
Male	18,867	49.6	2,127	49.8	330	51.4	288	45.1	102	50.7	21,204	49.8
Female	19,161	50.4	2,148	50.2	312	48.6	348	54.5	96	47.8	21,342	50.2
		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	39,200	-	-	469	344	125
1997	39,600	400	1.0	539	326	213
1998	40,000	400	1.0	427	298	129
1999	40,300	300	0.8	471	324	147
2000	40,500	200	0.5	472	353	119
2001	40,700	200	0.5	441	353	88
2002	41,200	500	1.2	415	379	36
2003	41,800	600	1.5	459	328	131
2004	42,500	700	1.7	479	386	93
2005	43,000	500	1.2	473	372	101
2006	43,600	600	1.4	484	361	123
2007	44,000	400	0.9	515	368	147
2008	44,500	500	1.1	570	382	188

Projected population change

Variant	Population at 30 June						Change 2006 - 2031
Variant	2006	2011	2016	2021	2026	2031	Number	%
High		46,300	48,700	50,800	52,500	53,800	10,300	24.0
Medium	43,600	45,100	46,300	47,200	47,600	47,700	4,200	10.0
Low		43,900	43,900	43,600	42,900	41,800	-1,700	-4.0

Household composition

Household composition	1986		1991		1996		2001		2006
Household composition	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
Couples with children	4,578	40.6	4,416	35.2	4,428	32.2	4,134	28.0	4,269	26.5
Couples without children	3,150	27.9	3,795	30.3	4,593	33.4	5,112	34.7	5,748	35.7
Multi-family	90	0.8	141	1.1	159	1.2	165	1.1	234	1.5
One parent family	879	7.8	1,095	8.7	1,194	8.7	1,341	9.1	1,359	8.4
One person	2,085	18.5	2,604	20.8	2,919	21.2	3,531	23.9	3,933	24.4
Other multi-person	498	4.4	495	3.9	471	3.4	468	3.2	579	3.6
Total	11,283	100.0	12,543	100.0	13,758	100.0	14,751	100.0	16,119	100.0

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Indicator data for Marlborough 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)	74.4	79.6	76.8	80.6	78.1	82.1

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	3,594	32.3	2,904	26.9	6,492	29.5
1996	3,243	24.8	2,877	22.7	6,123	23.7
2006	3,384	24.8	3,039	22.3	6,405	23.5

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

Year	15 - 24		25 - 44		45 - 64		65+
Year	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
1981	1,560	30.1	2,553	31.8	1,770	30.0	609	18.1
1996	1,254	28.5	2,793	27.0	1,617	20.1	459	9.1
2006	1,185	28.1	2,796	28.0	1,995	17.8	429	6.9

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	2,541	24.7	477	36.3	72	37.9	51	24.9	501	20.7	3,384	24.7
Female	2,319	22.0	600	42.1	54	30.1	24	8.2	402	17.3	3,039	22.4
Total	4,848	23.2	1,077	39.2	123	31.4	66	13.0	918	19.3	6,405	23.5

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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	95	102	98	501	539	1,040
2002	90	103	96	466	549	1,015
2003	102	97	99	497	526	1,023
2004	96	105	100	506	527	1,033
2005	93	102	98	446	537	983
2006	103	92	98	507	449	956
2007	97	105	101	508	492	1,000
2008	94	102	98	454	541	995

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	415	94.5	73	84.9	8	88.9	0	0.0	2	100.0	498	92.6
2001	440	97.1	79	90.8	6	100.0	9	100.0	1	100.0	535	96.2
2002	424	96.6	64	86.5	4	66.7	7	100.0	3	100.0	502	94.9
2003	431	97.5	75	90.4	8	88.9	4	100.0	2	66.7	520	96.1
2004	390	97.5	79	94.0	14	100.0	3	100.0	1	100.0	487	97.0
2005	385	96.5	75	97.4	13	86.7	6	100.0	1	33.3	480	96.0
2006	416	99.3	66	89.2	4	66.7	11	100.0	6	100.0	503	97.5
2007	357	96.7	74	98.7	12	100.0	7	100.0	10	100.0	460	97.3
2008	398	99.0	68	94.4	17	85.0	3	75.0	5	100.0	491	97.6

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	47.6	61.0	258	54.4	21.0	33.2	129	27.2
2006	53.7	65.5	277	60.3	26.4	34.5	142	30.9
2007	63.2	65.3	328	64.3	28.9	36.6	168	32.9

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	218	58.8	22	32.4	5	33.3	9	64.3	4	66.7	258	54.4
2006	238	63.8	26	37.7	5	55.6	3	100.0	5	100.0	277	60.3
2007	283	70.2	27	35.1	7	41.2	3	100.0	8	80.0	328	64.3

Bursary or higher

Year	European		Māori		Pacific		Asian		Other		Total
Year	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
2005	115	31.0	5	7.4	1	6.7	5	35.7	3	50.0	129	27.2
2006	128	34.3	9	13.0	1	11.1	2	66.7	2	40.0	142	30.9
2007	155	38.5	7	9.1	1	5.9	2	66.7	3	30.0	168	32.9

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	3,732	78.6	3,918	70.7	7,650	74.3
Female	4,353	83.6	3,756	68.2	8,106	75.7
Total	8,085	81.2	7,671	69.4	15,759	75.0
At least tertiary
Male	528	11.1	555	10.0	1,083	10.5
Female	861	16.5	522	9.5	1,380	12.9
Total	1,386	13.9	1,074	9.7	2,463	11.7

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	8,211	57.3	306	42.2	18	35.3	33	68.8	6	66.7	8,460	56.6
1991	9,621	62.0	459	47.4	30	47.6	54	69.2	9	75.0	10,011	61.1
1996	11,070	62.3	816	50.8	60	50.0	84	59.6	12	50.0	11,551	61.3
2001	12,363	70.9	870	60.3	87	67.4	129	82.7	18	85.7	13,019	70.4
2006	14,820	75.8	1,080	61.9	138	67.6	291	89.8	81	90.0	15,759	75.0
At least tertiary
1986	649	4.5	6	0.8	0	0.0	12	25.0	0	0.0	665	4.5
1991	702	4.5	12	1.2	3	4.8	21	26.9	3	25.0	739	4.5
1996	955	5.4	21	1.3	3	2.5	30	21.3	3	12.5	996	5.3
2001	1,347	7.7	51	3.5	6	4.7	33	21.2	3	14.3	1,415	7.7
2006	2,310	11.8	102	5.8	12	5.9	84	25.9	18	20.0	2,463	11.7

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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	2,909	967	3,876	75.1	24.9
2003	2,808	1,046	3,854	72.9	27.1
2004	2,958	1,048	4,006	73.8	26.2
2005	3,034	1,016	4,050	74.9	25.1
2006	3,020	1,088	4,108	73.5	26.5
2007	2,867	1,024	3,891	73.7	26.3

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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	5,676	23.4	435	26.0	30	27.8	21	29.2	0	0.0	6,090	23.7
1991	7,572	29.7	738	38.9	51	43.6	45	33.3	3	16.7	8,175	30.2
1996	7,134	25.6	798	29.5	114	43.2	48	25.4	15	31.3	7,680	25.9
2001	5,997	21.1	795	28.8	123	42.3	66	26.2	9	20.0	6,522	21.5
2006	5,529	17.6	702	21.5	111	28.5	90	21.0	36	32.4	6,045	18.0

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	1,767	28.1	429	12.0	1,335	18.4	1,113	21.2	1,446	43.2	6,090	23.7
1991	2,010	33.3	591	17.7	1,695	21.9	1,770	29.2	2,109	53.9	8,175	30.2
1996	2,199	32.3	492	15.9	1,689	19.4	1,479	21.8	1,827	43.7	7,680	25.9
2001	1,848	28.0	420	15.4	1,302	16.0	1,353	16.6	1,605	34.3	6,522	21.5
2006	1,344	20.5	345	10.7	1,014	11.7	1,338	13.5	2,007	37.9	6,045	18.0

Population with low incomes, by sex

Year	Male		Female
Year	Number	%	Number	%
1986	2,793	21.9	3,297	25.4
1991	3,729	27.7	4,446	32.6
1996	3,444	23.5	4,233	28.3
2001	2,835	18.9	3,687	24.0
2006	2,766	16.5	3,282	19.4

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	2,037	7.2	477	22.7	24	20.0	12	14.8	0	0.0	2,550	8.2
1991	2,037	6.8	585	23.3	36	23.5	15	9.3	0	0.0	2,625	8.0
1996	1,599	5.0	608	17.1	50	16.0	28	11.2	12	21.8	2,139	6.1
2001	1,314	4.0	531	15.3	48	13.8	33	9.8	9	15.0	1,833	5.1
2006	1,290	3.7	588	15.2	207	35.9	96	18.4	45	30.6	2,100	5.4

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	519	10.5	342	12.0	693	14.6	678	7.6	264	4.3	48	1.4	2,550	8.2
1991	633	12.5	318	12.2	615	13.8	765	8.0	231	3.3	57	1.4	2,625	8.0
1996	640	11.7	221	8.3	420	10.1	626	6.1	195	2.4	37	0.8	2,139	6.1
2001	492	9.6	222	7.8	369	10.1	522	5.3	195	2.0	33	0.6	1,833	5.1
2006	447	9.4	252	9.2	444	11.0	612	6.1	285	2.5	57	1.0	2,100	5.4

Household crowding, by sex

Year	Male		Female
Year	Number	%	Number	%
1986	1,305	8.4	1,245	8.0
1991	1,359	8.3	1,260	7.7
1996	1,038	5.9	1,101	6.2
2001	921	5.1	915	5.0
2006	1,047	5.5	1,053	5.4

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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 (%)	72.0	65.0	65.9	68.0	66.0	62.0	52.0

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	10	30.0	1	20.0	6	21.0	1	17.0	7	24.0	0	0.0
Women voted in	3	25.0	0	n/a	3	25.0	0	n/a	3	23.0	0	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	192	13.3	180	17.9	162	16.2	66	20.0	27	20.5	624	16.0
1996	Total population	231	2.7	228	3.1	225	2.0	93	1.6	45	0.8	834	2.2
2001	Māori	177	12.2	189	21.4	165	16.5	87	20.7	33	23.4	657	16.9
2001	Total population	234	2.8	264	4.1	219	1.9	126	1.7	39	0.6	876	2.2
2006	Māori	129	9.2	171	17.4	192	16.4	129	25.3	48	22.5	666	15.6
	Total population	171	2.2	234	3.4	261	2.2	168	1.9	69	1.0	900	2.1

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 (%)	14.8	19.9	71.2	70.2	42.0	46.9

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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	66.7	0.0
2002	3.8	0.0
2003	1.3	0.0
2004	3.5	0.0
2005	4.8	0.0
2006/2007	75.3	0.0
2007/2008	75.2	0.0

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	134	333.3	7.5
2002	158	384.4	36.5
2003	127	304.6	16.8
2004	147	347.5	23.6
2005	148	346.6	7.0
2006	175	405.1	6.9
2007	187	425.0	9.1
2008	172	386.5	2.2

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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	96.9	89.6	85.4	92.9	94.4	95.8	96.8	95.9	93.6	96.1	97.0	98.2	96.3
2001	98.0	93.2	84.6	93.7	89.5	97.2	98.0	97.0	96.5	97.4	98.2	98.7	97.6
2006	99.0	96.7	96.3	98.3	97.9	98.5	99.1	98.9	98.7	98.4	98.9	99.0	98.8

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	39.0	30.2	26.5	50.5	52.6	39.6	37.8	45.6	40.4	43.8	40.9	13.8	38.7
2006	66.7	51.2	40.8	68.2	56.3	65.8	64.9	72.8	64.6	69.7	70.6	38.8	65.3

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