Fear of crime
Ethnic differences
The New Zealand Crime and Safety Survey 2006 found significant ethnic variation in the proportion of young people who reported that fear of crime had a moderate or high impact of their quality of life.
Among those aged 15 to 24, European young people were least likely to say that fear of crime had a moderate or high impact on their quality of life (36 percent), followed by Māori (45 percent).
Youth identifying with other ethnic groups (i.e. Pacific, Asian or other ethnic groups) were most likely to report that fear of crime had a moderate or high impact on their quality of life (52 percent).
Proportion of young people aged 15 to 24 who report that fear of crime had a moderate or high impact on their quality of life, by ethnicity, 2005
Source: New Zealand Crime and Safety Survey 2006.
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.
