Industry training and apprenticeships
Ethnic differences
In 2007, Māori and non-Māori young people were about equally likely to participate in industry training.(1)
A total of 8.2 percent of Māori and 9 percent of non-Māori young people were industry trainees in 2007.
Non-Māori young people were slightly more likely than Māori to be Modern Apprentices.
2.5 percent of non-Māori young people were Modern Apprentices in 2007, compared to 1.9 percent of all Māori young people.
| Ethnic group | ||
|---|---|---|
| Māori | Non-Māori | |
| Proportion who are Modern Apprentices | 1.9% | 2.5% |
| Proportion who are industry trainees | 8.2% | 9.0% |
Source: Tertiary Education Commission. Rates derived using Census 2006 data.
Notes
1. Industry trainees’ ethnicity data is a mix of self-identified and provider-assigned classification. In addition, it is likely that some of it is total-response data that has been prioritized, whereas some is single-response data. This is because Industry Training Organisations classify and record ethnicity in a number of different ways, but when they report the data to the Tertiary Education Commission, they must report a single ethnicity for each student, and can choose how they identify this single ethnicity. Care should be taken in interpreting this data.
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.
