Talking with parents
Ethnic differences
Most differences by ethnic group for this indicator were small.
However, the PISA 2000 survey did find that Pākehā 15 year old students were significantly more likely (54.7 percent) than other ethnic groups (between 46 and 48 percent) to report that their parents spent time just talking to them “several times a week”.
Pacific young people (14.6 percent) were more likely than other ethnic groups (between 6 and 10 percent) to report this happening “a few times a year”.
Frequency of parents spending time "just talking" with them, as reported by 15 year olds, by ethnic group, 2000
Source: PISA 2000, prioritised ethnicity data. Missing responses have been excluded from denominator.
Notes
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.
