Online harm or harassment experienced in New Zealand

By type of harm, 2025, % of all people aged 18+ who use the internet

The following information applies to all values in the table. Year: 2025, Survey question: What kind(s) of online harm or harassment have you experienced?
Response	% of people who use the internet
Bullying + name calling + hate messages	3.533352422297%
Scams	3.111786188871%
Fraud + Hacking	1.863502430536%
Threats	1.55543454384%
Blackmail	0.9617812220002%
Other + Spam + False information	0.9601630623004%
Abuse	0.6505283809944%
Racism	0.6477879413893%
Doxxing/sharing photo's/personal information without consent	0.6364826904837%
Harassment	0.4440946065601%
Sexual + inappropriate pictures/sexual scenes/porn	0.3740466133498%
Stalking	0.3116174027659%
Defamation	0.302243481132%

Data calculation/treatment

A combination of pre-survey quotas and post survey weighting is used to ensure results are representative of all people in New Zealand by age, gender, region, and ethnicity.

Exclusions

It should be noted that the sample does not cover New Zealanders who are not online and therefore the results are not truly representative of all New Zealanders.

Data provided by

InternetNZ

Dataset name

Aotearoa Internet Insights 2025

Webpage:

https://internetnz.nz/new-zealands-internet-insights/new-zealands-internet-insights-2025/

How to find the data

This file was provided to us by InternetNZ

Import & extraction details

File as imported: Aotearoa Internet Insights 2025

From the dataset Aotearoa Internet Insights 2025, this data was extracted:

Sheet: Q93
Range: B3:B18
Provided: 16 data points

This data forms the table Internet - Online harm or harassment experienced 2025.

About this dataset

In 2018 InternetNZ conducted a consolidated research project that incorporated three historical research projects for both the former NZRS, and InternetNZ. This project covered business and consumer use and attitudes towards domain names, as well as public perceptions of the Internet in general. In 2019 they have replicated a section of this research project, to understand any changes in consumer perceptions of the Internet. The survey follows the same processes for 2018, however from 2019 onwards, the survey focused only on consumer use of and perceptions of the Internet.

Method of collection/Data provider

Respondents were sourced from Verian's (formerly Kantar Public) online consumer panels.
Fieldwork was conducted from November 25 to December 8, 2025.

Online harm or harassment experienced in New Zealand

By type of harm, 2025, % of all people aged 18+ who use the internet

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