give a religious affiliation. This number has greatly increased in 100 years – almost 4 out of 10 people did not specify a religious affiliation in the 2001 Census.
Languages (2006 Census)
The figures below total more than 100%, because the census counted all languages in which individuals considered themselves fluent; many speakers of minority languages were therefore counted more than once.
English: 98.0%
Mori: 4.2%
Chinese: 3.5%
Cantonese: 1.2%
Mandarin: 1.1%
Other Chinese, or not further defined: 1.2%
Samoan: 2.3%
French: 1.4%
Hindi: 1.2%
German: 1.0%
Tongan: 0.8%
Dutch: 0.7%
Korean: 0.7%
New Zealand Sign Language: 0.6%
Japanese: 0.6%
Spanish: 0.6%
Afrikaans: 0.6%
Other European languages: 1.9% (including Italian, Russian, Greek and many others).
North Indian languages (excluding Hindi): 1.2%
Other South East Asian languages (including Malay and Indonesian): 0.9%
Pacific languages (excluding Samoan and Tongan): 0.7%
Other languages (including Tamil, Telugu, Arabic, etc): 2.0%
Source: Language spoken (total responses) for the 1996-2006 censuses (Table 16), Statistics New Zealand.
Those with no language (e.g. too young to talk) and those who gave unusable responses were excluded from these percentages.
Literacy
Age 15 and over can read and write: 99% (1980 estimate) See Literacy
Nationality
noun: New Zealander(s) (formal), Kiwi(s) (informal)
adjective: New Zealander (formal), Kiwi (informal)
See also
New Zealand
Immigration to New Zealand
Chinese New Zealander
Scottish New Zealander
Korean New Zealander
New Zealand