Household crowding
Ethnic differences
In 2006, 9 percent of European young people lived in crowded housing, less than half the proportion of any other ethnic group.
Pacific young people are most to be living in crowded households: in 2006, 48 percent of Pacific young people aged 15 to 24 lived in crowded households, compared with 28 percent of Māori young people, 24 percent of Asian young people, and 32 percent of young people from other ethnic groups.
Proportion of young people aged 15 to 24 living in a household requiring one or more additional bedrooms, by ethnicity, 2006
Source: Statistics New Zealand, Census.
Note
We encourage you to be cautious about drawing conclusions from comparisons between ethnic groups. Apparent differences (in unadjusted data) between ethnic groups can often be explained by factors other than ethnicity per se, such as the different age, sex, geographical and socioeconomic distributions of different ethnic populations. In addition, datasets vary in the way that they collect and record ethnicity data.
