Ethnic groups are used for roll returns in New Zealand schools. They are used to define the ethnic group or groups with which a student identifies with.
The fields allows a student , or parent or guardian to nominate up to three ethnic groups. The New Zealand Ministry of Education (NZ MOE) encourages schools to allow students to self identify or be identified by their parents or guardians as parents as belonging to more than one ethnic group.
Ethnic groups
The following ethnic groups are used in the NZMOE tab of Current Student Maintenance:
Code | Ethnicity |
|---|---|
111 | NZ European/PÄkehÄPÄkehÄ |
121 | British / Irish |
122 | Dutch |
123 | Greek |
124 | Polish |
125 | South Slav |
126 | Italian |
127 | German |
128 | Australian |
129 | Other European |
211 | MÄori |
311 | Samoan |
321 | Cook Islands Maori |
331 | Tongan |
341 | Niuean |
351 | Tokelauan |
361 | Fijian |
371 | Other Pacific Peoples |
411 | Filipino |
412 | Cambodian |
413 | Vietnamese |
414 | Other Southeast Asian |
421 | Chinese |
431 | Indian |
441 | Sri Lankan |
442 | Japanese |
443 | Korean |
444 | Other Asian |
511 | Middle Eastern |
521 | Latin American |
531 | African |
611 | Other Ethnicity |
999 | Not Stated |
Lookup table
Ethnic groups are defined in the luEthnicGroup lookup table. See:
- luEthnicGroup lookup table
- Maintaining lookup tables in the System maintenance manual
- Loading lookup tables for external systems.
Note: Not all records are displayed on the screen capture. Refer to the table above.