Waipa District

This section provides people and indicator data for Waipa District.

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People data for Waipa 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 Waipa 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 Waipa 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	8,307	22.1	1,902	35.3	183	39.9	195	27.3	30	32.3	9,609	22.6
15 - 24	4,260	11.3	966	17.9	93	20.3	126	17.6	9	9.7	5,061	11.9
25 - 44	9,783	26.1	1,368	25.4	120	26.1	219	30.7	45	48.4	11,145	26.2
45 - 64	9,567	25.5	924	17.2	57	12.4	129	18.1	9	9.7	10,641	25.0
65 - 74	2,991	8.0	159	3.0	6	1.3	33	4.6	0	0	3,240	7.6
75+	2,649	7.1	69	1.3	3	0.7	9	1.3	0	0	2,808	6.6
Total	37,554	100.0	5,382	100.0	459	100.0	714	100.0	93	100.0	42,501	100.0
Ethnic % in the area	91.3		13.1		1.1		1.7		0.2		107.4
Sex
Male	18,240	48.6	2,661	49.4	228	49.7	333	46.6	45	48.4	20,727	48.8
Female	19,314	51.4	2,721	50.6	231	50.3	384	53.8	48	51.6	21,774	51.2
		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	39,800	-	-	563	328	235
1997	40,100	300	0.8	630	337	293
1998	40,500	400	1.0	562	328	234
1999	40,800	300	0.7	608	313	295
2000	41,200	400	1.0	575	346	229
2001	40,000	-1,200	-2.9	537	346	191
2002	40,600	600	1.5	583	314	269
2003	41,400	800	2.0	581	328	253
2004	42,100	700	1.7	616	310	306
2005	43,000	900	2.1	591	300	291
2006	43,700	700	1.6	604	311	293
2007	44,200	500	1.1	635	338	297
2008	44,700	500	1.1	657	356	301

Projected population change

Variant	Population at 30 June						Change 2006 - 2031
Variant	2006	2011	2016	2021	2026	2031	Number	%
High		46,700	49,400	51,900	54,300	56,400	12,700	29.0
Medium	43,700	45,800	47,600	49,200	50,500	51,700	8,000	18.0
Low		44,900	45,800	46,400	46,900	47,000	3,300	8.0

Household composition

Household composition	1986		1991		1996		2001		2006
Household composition	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
Couples with children	4,842	44.1	4,833	39.9	4,836	37.1	4,707	33.5	4,974	32.3
Couples without children	2,748	25.0	3,189	26.4	3,693	28.3	4,164	29.7	4,785	31.0
Multi-family	117	1.1	153	1.3	240	1.8	213	1.5	279	1.8
One parent family	969	8.8	1,293	10.7	1,344	10.3	1,488	10.6	1,578	10.2
One person	1,839	16.7	2,130	17.6	2,430	18.6	2,952	21.0	3,282	21.3
Other multi-person	483	4.4	498	4.1	495	3.8	510	3.6	516	3.3
Total	10,992	100.0	12,099	100.0	13,038	100.0	14,034	100.0	15,411	100.0

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Indicator data for Waipa 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)	74.3	80.0	75.9	81.0	77.2	81.8

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	3,756	33.5	3,075	27.9	6,831	30.6
1996	3,039	24.5	2,985	23.5	6,012	23.9
2006	2,946	22.4	3,165	22.2	6,090	22.2

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

Year	15 - 24		25 - 44		45 - 64		65+
Year	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
1981	1,737	31.0	2,790	33.8	1,710	30.2	594	18.5
1996	1,269	27.3	2,958	28.0	1,335	19.2	450	10.4
2006	1,203	25.5	2,622	25.0	1,839	18.5	426	7.7

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	2,187	21.4	582	36.3	39	29.8	39	17.3	330	18.1	2,946	22.4
Female	2,358	20.8	789	44.8	39	21.5	18	7.0	291	16.1	3,165	22.2
Total	4,536	21.0	1,368	41.1	69	20.9	51	11.7	624	17.4	6,090	22.2

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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	85	95	90	480	554	1,034
2002	84	103	93	500	591	1,091
2003	81	96	89	492	603	1,095
2004	89	95	92	490	605	1,095
2005	88	98	93	523	553	1,076
2006	79	97	88	470	585	1,055
2007	83	106	94	511	615	1,126
2008	84	98	91	522	617	1,139

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	451	90.6	102	78.5	2	100.0	3	100.0	6	100.0	564	88.3
2001	497	94.0	116	82.9	3	100.0	11	91.7	1	33.3	628	91.4
2002	492	95.7	103	84.4	5	83.3	5	83.3	2	50.0	607	93.1
2003	476	95.6	99	86.8	6	85.7	12	92.3	4	100.0	598	93.9
2004	502	97.5	110	84.6	3	100.0	10	90.9	6	100.0	631	94.9
2005	480	96.2	130	89.7	7	87.5	6	100.0	10	100.0	633	94.8
2006	498	96.3	126	91.3	9	100.0	8	100.0	5	100.0	646	95.4
2007	448	96.8	119	93.0	10	100.0	8	88.9	6	100.0	591	95.9
2008	430	96.8	142	92.8	10	83.3	12	100.0	9	100.0	603	95.7

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	61.1	70.1	534	65.4	23.7	34.0	234	28.7
2006	56.7	66.0	548	61.2	24.8	37.2	276	30.8
2007	57.3	68.2	416	63.0	29.0	34.4	210	31.8

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	345	67.0	113	54.6	18	56.3	57	95.0	1	50.0	534	65.4
2006	380	62.6	138	56.1	15	65.2	12	75.0	3	100.0	548	61.2
2007	348	67.8	51	42.1	3	75.0	10	66.7	4	57.1	416	63.0

Bursary or higher

Year	European		Māori		Pacific		Asian		Other		Total
Year	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
2005	180	35.0	39	18.8	8	25.0	6	10.0	1	50.0	234	28.7
2006	203	33.4	59	24.0	6	26.1	6	37.5	2	66.7	276	30.8
2007	182	35.5	17	14.1	0	0.0	7	46.7	4	57.1	210	31.8

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	3,855	78.7	3,390	69.5	7,242	74.1
Female	4,800	85.7	3,582	71.3	8,382	78.9
Total	8,652	82.4	6,972	70.4	15,624	76.6
At least tertiary
Male	696	14.2	522	10.7	1,221	12.5
Female	1,158	20.7	606	12.1	1,761	16.6
Total	1,851	17.6	1,131	11.4	2,982	14.6

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	7,694	57.3	492	35.7	39	59.1	66	68.8	6	100.0	8,112	55.3
1991	9,562	62.1	798	44.0	54	60.0	99	66.0	9	75.0	10,272	60.1
1996	10,530	63.0	1,044	46.6	87	52.7	114	50.7	21	77.8	11,253	61.0
2001	12,408	74.4	1,224	58.0	132	71.0	189	80.8	33	100.0	13,419	72.8
2006	14,508	77.7	1,308	63.1	123	77.4	285	85.6	51	94.4	15,624	76.6
At least tertiary
1986	619	4.6	36	2.6	3	4.6	15	15.6	0	0.0	654	4.5
1991	819	5.3	63	3.5	9	10.0	33	22.0	0	0.0	889	5.2
1996	1,240	7.4	105	4.7	15	9.1	48	21.3	15	55.6	1,344	7.3
2001	1,773	10.6	162	7.7	24	12.9	51	21.8	6	18.2	1,933	10.5
2006	2,775	14.9	210	10.1	27	17.0	84	25.2	15	27.8	2,982	14.6

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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	1,076	359	1,435	75.0	25.0
2003	1,288	512	1,800	71.6	28.4
2004	1,569	546	2,115	74.2	25.8
2005	1,651	557	2,208	74.8	25.2
2006	1,493	583	2,076	71.9	28.1
2007	1,496	574	2,070	72.3	27.7

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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	4,323	17.9	747	27.5	30	20.8	15	8.5	6	25.0	4,944	18.6
1991	6,252	23.6	1,275	38.6	105	46.1	36	15.8	6	40.0	7,350	25.0
1996	5,601	19.4	1,404	33.2	108	30.0	114	27.7	3	5.3	6,651	20.9
2001	4,497	16.0	1,212	30.4	120	29.9	129	29.7	15	23.8	5,472	17.5
2006	4,521	14.1	864	21.7	75	21.6	141	26.7	12	14.3	5,223	14.9

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	1,668	24.1	438	10.3	1,116	14.8	687	14.0	1,035	35.9	4,944	18.6
1991	2,307	30.6	636	15.7	1,680	19.1	1,140	20.1	1,587	47.6	7,350	25.0
1996	2,139	26.4	603	14.8	1,518	15.9	957	15.1	1,434	38.5	6,651	20.9
2001	1,890	24.1	396	12.0	1,197	13.2	831	11.6	1,158	29.6	5,472	17.5
2006	1,383	17.0	399	10.2	861	9.2	936	10.4	1,650	34.7	5,223	14.9

Population with low incomes, by sex

Year	Male		Female
Year	Number	%	Number	%
1986	2,265	17.1	2,679	20.2
1991	3,228	22.2	4,122	27.8
1996	2,865	18.3	3,786	23.5
2001	2,301	15.0	3,171	19.9
2006	2,289	13.3	2,940	16.4

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	2,283	8.1	1,290	34.2	72	32.9	42	19.7	12	40.0	3,522	10.9
1991	2,097	7.0	1,302	30.7	72	26.4	39	14.3	0	0.0	3,366	9.7
1996	1,874	5.9	1,300	24.6	144	29.6	116	21.9	12	18.8	3,044	8.3
2001	1,344	4.1	1,182	22.1	129	23.1	105	19.1	6	8.3	2,433	6.5
2006	1,272	3.6	963	19.3	96	22.1	84	13.1	9	10.3	2,265	5.6

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	777	14.3	531	16.3	975	17.7	846	9.2	330	5.7	63	2.0	3,522	10.9
1991	822	13.7	474	15.4	834	16.2	873	8.4	309	4.8	57	1.6	3,366	9.7
1996	840	13.5	393	12.9	696	13.7	779	7.2	279	3.9	57	1.4	3,044	8.3
2001	681	11.2	336	9.9	483	10.8	618	5.7	273	3.2	45	1.0	2,433	6.5
2006	546	9.3	288	8.5	543	11.2	552	5.2	276	2.7	60	1.1	2,265	5.6

Household crowding, by sex

Year	Male		Female
Year	Number	%	Number	%
1986	1,806	11.2	1,716	10.6
1991	1,704	9.9	1,662	9.6
1996	1,473	8.2	1,571	8.5
2001	1,206	6.5	1,227	6.4
2006	1,110	5.6	1,152	5.6

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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 (%)	57.0	49.0	53.1	49.0	50.0	42.0	34.0

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	5	21.0	0	0.0	5	25.0	0	0.0	4	17.0	0	0.0
Women voted in	3	25.0	0	n/a	3	25.0	0	n/a	2	17.0	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	414	18.2	357	23.8	342	24.1	207	47.6	111	59.7	1,428	24.5
1996	Total population	486	5.0	423	5.4	438	3.8	228	4.5	123	2.6	1,677	4.3
2001	Māori	411	17.9	339	23.7	378	25.7	210	40.5	105	50.7	1,440	24.3
2001	Total population	477	4.9	432	6.0	447	3.7	237	3.9	123	2.4	1,734	4.3
2006	Māori	267	14.0	267	21.0	324	23.1	168	29.2	111	48.7	1,134	21.1
	Total population	306	3.2	339	4.8	393	3.1	216	2.9	144	2.4	1,404	3.3

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	15.9	76.0	79.1	46.1	50.3

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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	76.3	8.2
2002	28.8	3.0
2003	0.8	2.9
2004	1.9	0.0
2005	34.1	7.6
2006/2007	61.6	0.0
2007/2008	69.3	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	145	356.3	27.0
2002	165	394.7	4.8
2003	154	363.2	14.2
2004	184	443.4	14.5
2005	173	410.9	19.0
2006	178	416.9	18.7
2007	150	339.4	6.8
2008	164	366.9	15.7

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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	98.3	87.7	89.4	92.9	100.0	96.9	97.1	95.8	95.6	97.1	98.4	98.8	97.0
2001	98.9	90.2	94.1	95.2	100.0	97.7	98.0	97.0	96.8	97.9	98.6	98.9	97.8
2006	99.3	96.1	96.5	97.2	103.6	98.7	99.0	98.9	98.1	98.8	99.1	99.3	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	43.5	25.2	40.3	50.0	63.6	43.0	41.3	47.4	45.6	46.5	43.8	14.3	42.1
2006	70.6	49.1	56.6	70.8	89.3	69.2	67.3	75.3	69.3	73.3	72.3	37.0	68.3

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