Our communities in the data

Our definition of Ethnic Communities includes migrants, former refugees, long-term settlers, and multi-generational New Zealanders who identify as: African, Asian, Continental European, Latin American or Middle Eastern.

Ethnic Evidence Increasing the visibility and value of New Zealand's diversity

Ethnic Evidence brings together in one place evidence on how Ethnic Communities are doing in New Zealand. This report is designed to help the public sector consider Ethnic Communities for government investment, policy development and service delivery intervention.

The report is a result of the Ministry for Ethnic Communities collaboration with a range of public sector agencies.

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Ethnic Evidence Summary

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An approach to finding our People in the Data

The current public service data systems capture Ethnic Communities statistics in a way that makes many of our people invisible. We had to deal with and overcome this challenge, and this paper sets out how we did it.
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Evidence behind the report

The statistics used for all of the figures in ethnic evidence can been found here.
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Ethnic Communities Census 2023 data dashboard

This interactive dashboard is updated with data from the 2023 Census, allowing users to explore key information by ethnicity, location, religion, language, age and more.

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Pay gaps among Ethnic Communities

This research report examines differences in earnings across Ethnic Communities and the factors that influence them, prepared by New Zealand Policy Research Institute - AUT.
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Pay Gaps among Ethnic Communities summary

This report summarises the New Zealand Policy Research Institute’s Pay Gaps Among Ethnic Communities in Aotearoa New Zealand research.
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Ethnic Communities barriers to business

This report presents qualitative insights from exploring barriers that prevent New Zealand ethnic businesses from entering high-margin industries, prepared by Business Economic Research Ltd (BERL).

Ethnic Communities barriers to business

Ethnic business demographics fact sheet

This fact sheet provides a snapshot of New Zealand Ethnic Communities’ business ownership.
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Justice and safety fact sheet

This fact sheet provides new insights on New Zealand Ethnic Communities’ experiences of justice and safety from the New Zealand Crime and Victims Survey.
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