Ethnic group

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 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 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/PÄkehÄ
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.