15.10 Preferred ethnicity and combined ethnicity

Inmates may identify with multiple ethnicities, which produces some issues in how to summarise the data. The census presents data for inmate preferred ethnicity as well as combined ethnicity.

For the purpose of providing trend data in line with previous censuses and summarising ethnicity, mappings of ethnicity were made according to the table below. In the case of combined ethnicity inmates were then further categorised by placing individuals into the main combined ethnicity groups of: European; European and Māori; Māori; Māori and Pacific; Pacific peoples and Other.

Census category	IOMS Data Point	Raw Count
European	New Zealand European/Pakeha	1962
European	European (Not Further Defined)	929
European	Australian	34
European	English	33
European	Dutch/Netherlands	14
European	South African	11
European	Scottish (Scots)	10
European	American (Us)	8
European	Irish	6
European	Greek (Incl. Greek Cypriot)	5
European	Polish	5
European	German	4
European	Czech	3
European	Spanish	3
European	Canadian	3
European	Russian	3
European	Belgian	2
European	British (Not Elsewhere Classified)	2
European	Ukrainian	2
European	Swedish	2
European	Bulgarian	2
European	British (Not Further Defined)	2
European	Welsh	1
European	Swiss	1
European	Portuguese	1
European	Other European (Not Further Defined)	1
European	Italian	1
European	Danish	1
European	Croat/Croatian	1
European	Austrian	1
Māori	New Zealand Māori	3279
Other	Chinese (Not Further Defined)	57
Other	Indian (Not Further Defined)	39
Other	Asian (Not Further Defined)	28
Other	African (Not Further Defined)	22
Other	Other (Not Further Defined)	16
Other	Vietnamese	13
Other	Iranian/Persian	12
Other	Fijian Indian/Indo-Fijian	7
Other	Israeli/Jewish/Hebrew	6
Other	Malay/Malayan	5
Other	Iraqi	5
Other	Vietnamese Chinese	5
Other	Middle Eastern (Not Further Defined)	4
Other	Algerian	4
Other	Korean	3
Other	Khmer/Kampuchean/Cambodian	3
Other	Thai/Tai/Siamese	3
Other	Japanese	3
Other	Other (Not Elsewhere Classified)	3
Other	Sri Lankan (Not Elsewhere Classified)	3
Other	Nigerian	3
Other	Chinese (Not Elsewhere Classified)	3
Other	Puerto Rican	2
Other	Punjabi	2
Other	Afghani	2
Other	Singaporean Chinese	2
Other	Hong Kong Chinese	2
Other	Pakistani	2
Other	Indian (Not Elsewhere Classified)	2
Other	Lao/Laotian	2
Other	Latin American/Hispanic (Not Further Defined)	2
Other	Filipino	2
Other	Sikh	1
Other	Peruvian	1
Other	Southeast Asian (Not Further Defined)	1
Other	Sri Lankan (Not Further Defined)	1
Other	Taiwanese Chinese	1
Other	Malaysian Chinese	1
Other	Palestinian	1
Other	Other African (Not Elsewhere Classified)	1
Other	Latin American/Hispanic (Not Elsewhere Classified)	1
Other	Jordanian	1
Other	Jamaican	1
Other	Mauritian	1
Other	Egyptian	1
Other	Colombian	1
Other	Bolivian	1
Other	Bangladeshi	1
Other	Assyrian	1
Other	Arab	1
Other	Not Specified	27
Other	Unidentifiable	1
Pacific Peoples	Samoan	303
Pacific Peoples	Pacific Island (Not Further Defined)	196
Pacific Peoples	Cook Island Māori (Not Further Defined)	172
Pacific Peoples	Tongan	129
Pacific Peoples	Niuean	41
Pacific Peoples	Fijian (Except Fiji Indian/Indo-Fijian)	28
Pacific Peoples	Rarotongan	27
Pacific Peoples	Tokelauan	6
Pacific Peoples	Tuvalu Islander/Ellice Islander	2
Pacific Peoples	Other Pacific Island (Not Elsewhere Classified)	1
Pacific Peoples	Other Pacific Island Groups	1
Pacific Peoples	Papuan/New Guinean/Irian Jayan	1
Pacific Peoples	Rotuman/Rotuman Islander	1
Pacific Peoples	Aitutaki Islander	1
Pacific Peoples	Bismark Archipelagoan	1

Counts do not add to total inmates as each inmate may be counted in several ethnicities.