Road deaths
Ethnic differences
Note: Due to small numbers, ethnicity data for road deaths is collated for all children and young people aged under 25 years.
In 2005, Māori children and young people aged under 25 years were much more likely than those in other ethnic groups to die in motor vehicle accident.
The death rate for Māori children and young people aged under 25 years was 19 per 100,000, compared with 9 per 100,000 for Pacific children and young people, and 11 per 100,000 for children and young people from European and other ethnic groups.
| Year | Ethnic group | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Māori | Pacific peoples | European and other | ||
| 2002 | 11.4 | 11.4 | 12.1 | 11.9 |
| 2002 | 11.7 | 11.8 | 10.2 | 10.7 |
| 2003 | 17.7 | 9.2 | 10.3 | 11.9 |
| 2005 | 17.4 | 11.5 | 10.4 | 12.1 |
| 2005 | 19.2 | 8.9 | 10.7 | 12.5 |
Source: Ministry of Health, New Zealand Health Information Service, Ministry of Health.
Note: 2005 data is provisional; 2004 data for European and other and Total has been revised.
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.
