Internet access

Ethnic differences

Home access to the World Wide Web varied by ethnic group. 

Among 12 to 24 year olds, the proportion of Asian young people with a home internet connection (82.4 percent) was more than double that of Pacific young people (39.5 percent). 

Proportion of young people aged 12 to 24 with home access to the internet, by ethnic group, 2006
Ethnic group Proportion of population with internet connection in the home (%)
European 75.2
Māori 47.3
Pacific peoples 39.5
Asian 82.4
Other 73.6

Source: Statistics New Zealand, Census. The category European includes ‘New Zealander’ responses, in accordance with Statistics New Zealand practice for previous Censuses.

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.