Waikato District

This section provides people and indicator data for Waikato District.

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People data for Waikato 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 Waikato 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 Waikato 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	7,875	24.1	3,900	36.6	477	48.8	363	32.5	54	37.5	11,205	25.5
15 - 24	3,789	11.6	1,827	17.1	144	14.7	159	14.2	18	12.5	5,595	12.7
25 - 44	8,661	26.5	2,721	25.5	225	23.0	318	28.5	45	31.3	11,742	26.7
45 - 64	8,712	26.6	1,749	16.4	105	10.7	213	19.1	24	16.7	11,016	25.1
65 - 74	2,040	6.2	333	3.1	21	2.1	42	3.8	9	6.3	2,529	5.8
75+	1,617	4.9	135	1.3	6	0.6	21	1.9	0	0	1,866	4.2
Total	32,697	100.0	10,665	100.0	978	100.0	1,116	100.0	144	100.0	43,959	100.0
Ethnic % in the area	79.3		25.9		2.4		2.7		0.3		110.5
Sex
Male	16,341	50.0	5,145	48.2	501	51.2	516	46.2	75	52.1	21,870	49.8
Female	16,356	50.0	5,517	51.7	474	48.5	603	54.0	66	45.8	22,089	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	40,300	-	-	624	279	345
1997	40,500	200	0.5	702	243	459
1998	40,700	200	0.5	657	237	420
1999	41,000	300	0.7	682	279	403
2000	41,200	200	0.5	640	281	359
2001	41,300	100	0.2	693	292	401
2002	42,200	900	2.2	583	289	294
2003	43,100	900	2.1	647	268	379
2004	43,900	800	1.9	641	264	377
2005	44,600	700	1.6	699	255	444
2006	45,400	800	1.8	721	294	427
2007	46,000	600	1.3	794	312	482
2008	46,800	800	1.7	766	310	456

Projected population change

Variant	Population at 30 June						Change 2006 - 2031
Variant	2006	2011	2016	2021	2026	2031	Number	%
High		49,500	53,400	57,200	60,900	64,400	19,000	42.0
Medium	45,400	48,300	50,900	53,400	55,700	57,700	12,300	27.0
Low		47,100	48,400	49,600	50,500	51,100	5,700	13.0

Household composition

Household composition	1986		1991		1996		2001		2006
Household composition	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
Couples with children	5,448	49.9	4,956	42.1	4,716	38.3	4,515	34.7	5,028	35.0
Couples without children	2,469	22.6	2,820	24.0	3,261	26.5	3,522	27.0	3,957	27.6
Multi-family	231	2.1	270	2.3	387	3.1	342	2.6	459	3.2
One parent family	933	8.6	1,512	12.9	1,605	13.0	1,776	13.6	1,692	11.8
One person	1,404	12.9	1,746	14.8	1,941	15.8	2,430	18.7	2,754	19.2
Other multi-person	429	3.9	465	4.0	411	3.3	441	3.4	471	3.3
Total	10,908	100.0	11,763	100.0	12,318	100.0	13,026	100.0	14,361	100.0

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Indicator data for Waikato District

Health

Life expectancy - TLA data not available so regional figure provided

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)	..s	..s	74.5	78.6	75.6	80.7

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	4,281	35.3	3,543	31.2	7,821	33.2
1996	3,372	26.6	3,486	27.4	6,864	27.1
2006	3,528	26.6	3,588	26.1	7,104	26.2

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

Year	15 - 24		25 - 44		45 - 64		65+
Year	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
1981	2,157	35.1	3,252	35.4	1,878	32.8	534	23.6
1996	1,416	29.6	3,483	32.7	1,608	22.1	357	11.3
2006	1,440	29.3	3,222	30.8	2,103	21.3	339	9.0

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	2,214	24.3	1,161	40.4	78	31.7	51	17.1	330	19.0	3,528	26.6
Female	2,067	21.6	1,596	45.6	87	33.8	33	7.5	261	16.1	3,588	26.0
Total	4,281	22.9	2,763	43.6	159	31.3	75	10.4	600	17.8	7,104	26.2

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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	56	66	61	399	464	863
2002	59	61	60	423	434	857
2003	59	66	63	403	495	898
2004	60	71	65	432	504	936
2005	65	72	69	434	521	955
2006	69	69	69	465	472	937
2007	75	77	76	533	567	1,100
2008	70	81	76	535	587	1,122

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	428	94.1	235	86.7	13	92.9	9	52.9	2	100.0	688	90.5
2001	388	95.6	227	81.4	5	83.3	8	57.1	4	100.0	633	89.2
2002	415	96.1	209	77.7	3	60.0	10	66.7	3	100.0	640	88.4
2003	452	95.6	264	86.0	7	87.5	15	88.2	5	100.0	745	91.7
2004	407	97.1	224	86.8	7	87.5	10	83.3	6	100.0	656	93.0
2005	400	94.8	251	88.7	9	90.0	12	92.3	5	100.0	678	92.2
2006	390	98.0	215	88.1	8	66.7	15	100.0	6	100.0	634	93.9
2007	330	95.7	219	88.3	7	100.0	18	90.0	8	88.9	582	92.5
2008	400	97.8	234	86.0	6	75.0	20	95.2	3	60.0	663	92.7

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	30.6	46.1	92	37.0	13.6	20.6	41	16.5
2006	32.7	41.1	105	36.5	9.4	19.4	40	13.9
2007	46.2	53.3	134	49.8	15.9	23.4	53	19.7

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	42	43.3	45	31.0	1	50.0	3	75.0	1	100.0	92	37.0
2006	43	41.7	58	33.0	0	0.0	2	50.0	2	66.7	105	36.5
2007	53	60.2	76	44.2	3	42.9	1	100.0	1	100.0	134	49.8

Bursary or higher

Year	European		Māori		Pacific		Asian		Other		Total
Year	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
2005	17	17.5	22	15.2	0	0.0	1	25.0	1	100.0	41	16.5
2006	17	16.5	21	11.9	0	0.0	1	25.0	1	33.3	40	13.9
2007	25	28.4	27	15.7	0	0.0	1	100.0	0	0.0	53	19.7

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	3,681	75.0	3,255	65.8	6,936	70.4
Female	4,515	81.1	3,282	68.1	7,800	75.1
Total	8,196	78.2	6,540	67.0	14,733	72.8
At least tertiary
Male	630	12.8	603	12.2	1,233	12.5
Female	1,095	19.7	654	13.6	1,749	16.8
Total	1,728	16.5	1,257	12.9	2,982	14.7

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	7,194	56.1	696	26.2	42	37.8	87	65.9	12	80.0	7,872	51.1
1991	8,085	60.1	1,008	31.8	63	42.9	138	60.5	12	80.0	9,117	54.7
1996	8,979	60.6	1,383	35.3	87	38.2	174	51.3	21	77.8	10,134	55.2
2001	10,326	71.6	1,629	45.6	123	57.8	291	85.1	24	80.0	11,815	66.8
2006	12,747	76.5	2,166	55.1	183	61.6	420	85.4	60	95.2	14,733	72.8
At least tertiary
1986	651	5.1	24	0.9	0	0.0	24	18.2	3	20.0	697	4.5
1991	771	5.7	45	1.4	6	4.1	36	15.8	3	20.0	850	5.1
1996	1,110	7.5	105	2.7	3	1.3	60	17.7	3	11.1	1,242	6.8
2001	1,605	11.1	210	5.9	18	8.5	84	24.6	9	30.0	1,845	10.4
2006	2,607	15.6	339	8.6	24	8.1	141	28.7	24	38.1	2,982	14.7

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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	4,094	1,403	5,497	74.5	25.5
2003	3,156	1,094	4,250	74.3	25.7
2004	3,089	1,006	4,095	75.4	24.6
2005	3,180	949	4,129	77.0	23.0
2006	3,116	1,019	4,135	75.4	24.6
2007	2,914	1,033	3,947	73.8	26.2

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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	4,437	19.5	1,554	33.2	66	26.5	42	15.6	12	57.1	5,877	21.7
1991	5,994	26.3	3,141	53.9	126	44.7	117	32.2	3	20.0	8,985	31.7
1996	5,583	23.2	3,015	47.3	213	49.7	147	28.8	15	29.4	8,004	27.4
2001	4,638	19.5	2,559	40.1	210	40.0	138	24.3	12	33.3	6,804	23.3
2006	3,990	14.7	1,884	27.7	162	25.0	198	22.8	24	20.0	5,625	17.2

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	2,220	27.8	525	12.2	1,431	18.2	804	16.6	897	42.4	5,877	21.7
1991	3,204	40.4	936	22.8	2,121	25.0	1,371	25.6	1,359	54.6	8,985	31.7
1996	2,913	35.7	723	20.3	1,959	22.3	1,257	20.6	1,149	44.2	8,004	27.4
2001	2,583	32.0	585	19.0	1,551	18.5	1,134	16.6	951	34.4	6,804	23.3
2006	1,812	21.6	480	13.0	1,077	12.1	1,107	12.9	1,149	35.8	5,625	17.2

Population with low incomes, by sex

Year	Male		Female
Year	Number	%	Number	%
1986	2,814	20.1	3,066	23.4
1991	4,266	29.8	4,719	33.6
1996	3,744	25.4	4,263	29.5
2001	3,099	21.1	3,705	25.6
2006	2,628	15.9	2,997	18.4

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	2,343	8.7	3,060	39.5	129	33.1	93	26.3	0	0.0	5,499	15.6
1991	2,181	8.1	2,850	34.4	159	36.3	138	29.5	6	25.0	5,232	14.7
1996	1,766	6.4	2,730	29.2	179	27.2	117	17.8	0	0.0	4,431	12.1
2001	1,437	5.2	2,748	29.7	216	30.0	132	17.7	9	13.6	4,194	11.3
2006	1,671	5.4	2,898	29.6	255	28.1	123	11.5	9	6.8	4,512	11.2

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	1,368	19.5	810	21.3	1,395	22.8	1,269	12.5	564	9.5	90	3.9	5,499	15.6
1991	1,377	20.3	693	20.6	1,209	21.4	1,341	12.6	510	7.8	105	3.9	5,232	14.7
1996	1,254	18.2	581	17.2	873	17.4	1,203	11.1	405	5.4	115	3.9	4,431	12.1
2001	1,272	19.1	600	16.8	726	16.1	1,104	10.4	405	4.8	81	2.5	4,194	11.3
2006	1,233	18.2	588	16.1	924	18.0	1,104	10.2	552	5.4	117	3.2	4,512	11.2

Household crowding, by sex

Year	Male		Female
Year	Number	%	Number	%
1986	2,766	15.2	2,736	15.9
1991	2,658	14.7	2,577	14.7
1996	2,163	11.8	2,268	12.5
2001	2,058	11.1	2,139	11.6
2006	2,187	10.9	2,328	11.6

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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 (%)	61.0	53.0	53.9	52.0	51.0	42.0	35.0

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	6	21.0	1	13.0	4	13.0	1	33.0	5	21.0	0	0.0
Women voted in	2	15.0	0	n/a	2	15.0	0	n/a	2	15.0	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	1,206	29.3	741	30.2	777	31.8	495	59.1	237	69.3	3,465	34.0
1996	Total population	1,281	11.9	837	10.6	864	7.5	540	10.2	258	7.2	3,786	9.7
2001	Māori	1,167	29.1	756	32.1	807	30.6	456	49.7	279	67.9	3,471	33.6
2001	Total population	1,269	11.8	831	11.6	909	7.6	501	8.2	315	8.1	3,822	9.6
2006	Māori	1,020	26.2	768	30.7	774	29.0	480	42.2	312	67.5	3,354	31.4
	Total population	1,092	9.7	846	10.9	891	6.8	540	7.1	336	7.6	3,708	8.4

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 (%)	17.7	18.5	73.8	74.0	40.7	41.6

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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	50.0	38.1
2002	1.8	43.2
2003	0.0	38.4
2004	38.6	41.6
2005	40.9	37.1
2006/2007	21.0	5.5
2007/2008	30.0	5.5

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	243	585.5	38.6
2002	244	585.1	40.8
2003	296	703.1	52.3
2004	281	662.7	30.7
2005	257	603.3	42.3
2006	265	619.2	32.7
2007	286	621.7	41.3
2008	246	525.6	21.4

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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	96.1	75.4	80.1	96.3	105.3	91.0	91.4	87.4	88.8	91.4	95.5	96.6	91.2
2001	97.5	82.8	83.7	97.2	87.0	94.0	93.7	91.2	92.4	93.6	96.7	97.7	93.9
2006	98.7	91.5	94.0	98.3	95.5	96.8	97.1	95.9	96.0	97.0	98.1	98.2	97.0

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	41.9	18.3	23.4	50.8	43.5	37.2	36.2	38.8	38.4	39.3	39.8	12.4	36.7
2006	69.2	36.7	47.2	68.6	77.3	62.0	61.5	63.6	60.6	65.4	66.4	35.1	61.7