Western Bay of Plenty District

This section provides people and indicator data for Western Bay of Plenty District.

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People data for Western Bay of Plenty 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 Western Bay of Plenty 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 Western Bay of Plenty 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	7,269	21.1	2,328	33.6	297	41.1	252	25.6	24	32.0	9,108	21.6
15 - 24	3,243	9.4	1,104	15.9	111	15.4	168	17.1	9	12.0	4,320	10.3
25 - 44	7,749	22.5	1,749	25.2	204	28.2	324	32.9	30	40.0	9,948	23.6
45 - 64	10,302	29.9	1,311	18.9	102	14.1	210	21.3	12	16.0	12,159	28.9
65 - 74	3,474	10.1	297	4.3	12	1.7	24	2.4	0	0	3,906	9.3
75+	2,400	7.0	132	1.9	3	0.4	15	1.5	3	4.0	2,628	6.2
Total	34,437	100.0	6,927	100.0	723	100.0	984	100.0	75	100.0	42,078	100.0
Ethnic % in the area	86.3		17.4		1.8		2.5		0.2		108.2
Sex
Male	17,058	49.5	3,381	48.8	405	56.0	501	50.9	39	52.0	20,904	49.7
Female	17,379	50.5	3,546	51.2	315	43.6	483	49.1	36	48.0	21,171	50.3
		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	35,800	-	-	505	292	213
1997	36,700	900	2.5	536	261	275
1998	37,600	900	2.5	524	259	265
1999	38,200	600	1.6	523	297	226
2000	38,900	700	1.8	518	290	228
2001	39,300	400	1.0	456	332	124
2002	39,900	600	1.5	501	272	229
2003	40,800	900	2.3	474	329	145
2004	41,600	800	2.0	558	305	253
2005	42,500	900	2.2	499	268	231
2006	43,300	800	1.9	509	312	197
2007	43,900	600	1.4	546	310	236
2008	44,400	500	1.1	566	343	223

Projected population change

Variant	Population at 30 June						Change 2006 - 2031
Variant	2006	2011	2016	2021	2026	2031	Number	%
High		47,400	51,400	55,100	58,700	62,000	18,700	43.0
Medium	43,300	46,200	49,000	51,500	53,800	55,800	12,500	29.0
Low		45,000	46,600	47,900	49,000	49,700	6,500	15.0

Household composition

Household composition	1986		1991		1996		2001		2006
Household composition	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
Couples with children	3,696	43.1	3,843	37.5	4,107	33.7	4,149	30.6	4,518	30.2
Couples without children	2,448	28.5	3,291	32.1	4,137	33.9	4,707	34.7	5,259	35.1
Multi-family	144	1.7	153	1.5	306	2.5	201	1.5	324	2.2
One parent family	588	6.9	870	8.5	1,137	9.3	1,422	10.5	1,428	9.5
One person	1,353	15.8	1,737	17.0	2,184	17.9	2,769	20.4	3,045	20.3
Other multi-person	348	4.1	348	3.4	333	2.7	324	2.4	396	2.6
Total	8,577	100.0	10,242	100.0	12,198	100.0	13,572	100.0	14,976	100.0

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Indicator data for Western Bay of Plenty 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)	73.4	80.8	75.7	81.9	78.6	82.8

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	2,580	32.2	2,061	27.2	4,653	29.8
1996	2,904	26.1	2,748	24.8	5,652	25.4
2006	3,006	24.1	3,027	23.9	6,033	24.0

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

Year	15 - 24		25 - 44		45 - 64		65+
Year	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
1981	1,176	32.2	1,782	31.1	1,269	29.3	426	20.1
1996	981	28.7	2,652	29.6	1,569	19.7	450	10.4
2006	936	24.2	2,631	29.3	2,049	18.6	417	7.0

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	1,998	22.9	768	38.1	69	28.1	39	10.8	387	19.4	3,006	24.1
Female	1,944	21.2	1,038	45.4	36	19.9	33	10.0	294	15.0	3,027	23.9
Total	3,939	22.0	1,809	42.1	108	24.3	54	7.8	684	17.6	6,033	24.0

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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	63	92	78	336	522	858
2002	70	88	79	392	485	877
2003	78	88	83	430	519	949
2004	78	92	85	422	541	963
2005	82	94	88	434	524	958
2006	55	81	68	299	444	743
2007	62	75	68	345	406	751
2008	80	71	75	408	410	818

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	360	91.4	104	76.5	5	100.0	3	75.0	2	100.0	474	87.6
2001	344	93.0	123	79.4	3	60.0	2	50.0	3	100.0	475	88.5
2002	347	94.6	141	83.4	5	71.4	3	100.0	2	100.0	498	90.9
2003	319	96.7	152	86.9	7	53.8	15	100.0	1	100.0	494	92.5
2004	345	96.4	124	87.3	6	66.7	8	66.7	2	100.0	485	92.7
2005	361	97.0	122	80.3	10	83.3	4	66.7	0	0.0	497	91.7
2006	311	99.0	137	87.8	8	66.7	14	87.5	1	100.0	471	94.4
2007	291	97.3	139	91.4	11	78.6	13	92.9	2	100.0	456	94.8
2008	311	99.4	123	90.4	11	78.6	16	88.9	4	100.0	465	95.9

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	42.5	54.4	182	48.7	16.8	27.2	83	22.2
2006	51.6	62.0	213	56.6	14.6	33.7	90	23.9
2007	64.0	71.4	239	67.5	21.5	44.6	115	32.5

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	157	61.3	22	21.0	..s	..s	..s	..s	0	0.0	182	48.7
2006	176	65.9	29	32.2	..s	..s	..s	..s	0	0.0	213	56.6
2007	177	71.7	45	54.9	..s	..s	..s	..s	0	0.0	239	67.5

Bursary or higher

Year	European		Māori		Pacific		Asian		Other		Total
Year	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
2005	78	30.5	5	4.8	..s	..s	..s	..s	0	0.0	83	22.2
2006	76	28.5	10	11.1	..s	..s	..s	..s	0	0.0	90	23.9
2007	93	37.7	14	17.1	..s	..s	..s	..s	0	0.0	115	32.5

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	3,141	75.1	3,870	71.0	7,011	72.8
Female	3,960	83.5	4,029	73.5	7,989	78.2
Total	7,107	79.7	7,896	72.2	15,003	75.6
At least tertiary
Male	450	10.8	570	10.5	1,017	10.6
Female	720	15.2	561	10.2	1,281	12.5
Total	1,173	13.2	1,131	10.3	2,301	11.6

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	6,348	60.1	408	30.5	15	41.7	27	69.2	3	100.0	6,693	56.7
1991	8,237	64.3	681	37.9	24	40.0	57	61.3	12	80.0	8,856	61.0
1996	9,680	62.5	1,101	42.8	69	52.3	69	41.8	15	71.4	10,371	59.5
2001	11,382	73.5	1,176	50.0	111	64.9	183	80.3	18	85.7	12,365	70.7
2006	13,590	78.3	1,581	57.7	162	65.9	333	77.6	36	100.0	15,003	75.6
At least tertiary
1986	513	4.9	15	1.1	0	0.0	9	23.1	0	0.0	525	4.5
1991	620	4.8	24	1.3	3	5.0	15	16.1	0	0.0	651	4.5
1996	894	5.8	54	2.1	12	9.1	27	16.4	6	28.6	944	5.4
2001	1,257	8.1	96	4.1	9	5.3	39	17.1	6	28.6	1,368	7.8
2006	2,094	12.1	177	6.5	15	6.1	90	21.0	15	41.7	2,301	11.6

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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	621	185	806	77.0	23.0
2003	350	96	446	78.5	21.5
2004	468	154	622	75.2	24.8
2005	393	134	527	74.6	25.4
2006	492	173	665	74.0	26.0
2007	880	304	1,184	74.3	25.7

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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	4,137	22.9	810	31.7	36	41.4	9	16.7	3	50.0	4,830	23.8
1991	6,789	32.8	1,704	52.5	72	58.5	48	38.1	9	50.0	8,322	35.3
1996	6,399	25.6	1,707	40.0	123	44.6	99	39.8	15	38.5	7,653	27.5
2001	5,586	21.6	1,608	37.9	144	43.2	141	43.5	12	28.6	6,870	23.6
2006	5,442	18.8	1,290	26.6	141	31.8	243	36.3	15	25.0	6,678	20.3

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	1,548	30.0	375	12.7	1,089	19.7	912	21.1	903	39.1	4,830	23.8
1991	2,325	40.6	726	26.6	2,001	30.1	1,746	31.9	1,527	50.7	8,322	35.3
1996	2,364	34.3	579	21.8	1,776	23.0	1,506	21.9	1,431	38.6	7,653	27.5
2001	2,286	31.6	459	19.5	1,593	21.4	1,317	16.7	1,221	28.7	6,870	23.6
2006	1,737	23.9	447	14.7	1,215	15.7	1,482	15.3	1,803	35.1	6,678	20.3

Population with low incomes, by sex

Year	Male		Female
Year	Number	%	Number	%
1986	2,262	22.0	2,565	25.7
1991	3,996	33.7	4,326	36.9
1996	3,555	25.6	4,098	29.4
2001	3,123	21.5	3,744	25.6
2006	3,099	18.9	3,582	21.7

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	1,647	7.7	1,437	40.5	33	30.6	9	14.3	0	0.0	3,069	12.2
1991	1,545	6.5	1,395	32.7	63	36.8	51	32.7	0	0.0	3,009	10.6
1996	1,766	6.3	1,615	28.1	122	34.3	68	20.3	4	8.9	3,208	9.7
2001	1,158	3.9	1,425	24.9	135	28.5	90	20.4	0	0.0	2,664	7.5
2006	1,206	3.7	1,632	25.9	234	36.8	174	20.0	6	9.1	3,012	7.8

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	744	17.8	405	16.3	765	19.4	783	11.3	321	6.3	48	1.9	3,069	12.2
1991	852	18.0	363	14.9	612	16.7	858	10.5	282	4.4	39	1.2	3,009	10.6
1996	979	17.8	412	14.9	541	15.1	920	10.1	300	3.7	56	1.4	3,208	9.7
2001	777	14.0	363	11.2	459	13.7	729	8.0	279	3.0	60	1.3	2,664	7.5
2006	807	14.9	366	11.2	564	14.2	810	8.9	393	3.5	72	1.3	3,012	7.8

Household crowding, by sex

Year	Male		Female
Year	Number	%	Number	%
1986	1,563	12.2	1,503	12.2
1991	1,572	10.9	1,440	10.2
1996	1,566	9.5	1,642	9.9
2001	1,314	7.5	1,359	7.7
2006	1,560	8.1	1,458	7.5

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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 (%)	64.0	61.0	68.1	62.0	50.0	42.0	38.0

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	17.0	0	0.0	4	25.0	1	33.0	5	25.0	0	0.0
Women voted in	2	15.0	0	n/a	3	23.0	0	n/a	4	33.0	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	552	23.8	330	23.0	402	26.0	300	48.3	180	62.5	1,770	28.5
1996	Total population	615	7.2	393	7.0	477	4.7	345	5.8	201	4.3	2,025	5.8
2001	Māori	567	23.5	348	25.6	423	25.5	276	41.6	186	57.9	1,794	28.0
2001	Total population	630	6.8	423	8.0	504	4.6	312	4.3	213	3.9	2,070	5.4
2006	Māori	522	22.4	390	26.2	468	25.8	282	33.0	222	51.4	1,884	27.2
	Total population	588	6.5	456	7.8	582	4.9	363	4.2	264	4.0	2,250	5.3

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 (%)	14.6	20.1	74.6	75.4	48.0	53.5

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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	1.1	10.3
2002	71.0	10.2
2003	55.0	10.0
2004	55.6	9.8
2005	65.6	36.9
2006/2007	62.9	63.0
2007/2008	52.9	62.3

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	138	345.9	45.1
2002	145	363.4	17.5
2003	182	447.2	44.2
2004	164	396.1	19.3
2005	118	279.6	14.2
2006	150	349.7	25.6
2007	205	467.0	15.9
2008	170	382.9	13.5

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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	97.1	83.9	82.8	89.4	100.0	94.7	95.4	93.5	92.7	94.4	97.2	97.6	95.1
2001	98.4	87.5	81.8	95.2	100.0	96.5	96.7	95.4	94.5	95.7	98.2	98.8	96.6
2006	99.3	94.7	93.0	97.9	95.5	98.3	98.6	98.3	97.8	98.2	98.8	99.0	98.5

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	43.4	21.7	24.0	35.2	82.4	40.9	39.6	45.1	43.2	42.9	43.9	17.3	40.3
2006	71.5	42.2	39.5	54.8	72.7	67.0	66.5	71.8	65.5	69.0	72.7	44.5	66.7

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