15.7 Highest educational level attended categories

For the purposes of providing a better overview and recognition of changing school terminology the raw IOMS education level data was reduced with the following mapping.

IOMS Data point

Census category

Standard 1

< Year 9

Standard 2

< Year 9

Standard 3

< Year 9

Standard 4

< Year 9

Form 1

< Year 9

Form 2

< Year 9

Form 3

Year 9 (Form 3)

Form 4

Year 10 (Form 4)

Form 5

Year 11 (Form 5)

Form 6

Year 12 (Form 6)

Form 7

Year 13 (Form 7)

Tertiary

Tertiary

Not in New Zealand

Not in New Zealand

Unknown

Not recorded

Null

Not recorded