Driver licence holding status for Māori people in New Zealand

By sex and type of licence, 2018, number of people

The following information applies to all values in the table. Year: 2018, Ethnic group: Māori
Measure	Sex	Number of people
People with no driver licence	Male	33,831
People with learner driver licence	Male	33,543
People with restricted driver licence	Male	30,879
People with full driver licence	Male	143,007
People with no driver licence	Female	41,760
People with learner driver licence	Female	41,004
People with restricted driver licence	Female	40,086
People with full driver licence	Female	136,740

Data calculation/treatment

Except where otherwise stated, all population counts are for ages 16+.

For more information

https://www.motu.nz/our-research/population-and-labour/individual-and-group-outcomes/rates-driver-licence-holding-nz/

Limitations of the data

Due to data limitations, suspended, expired, and otherwise invalid licences are included.
Data should thus be considered to capture the individuals in the group who have ever held a licence of the level indicated.
To comply with Statistics New Zealand’s confidentiality requirements, counts of individuals have been randomly rounded to base 3 and suppressed.

Data provided by

Motu Research

Dataset name

Rates of Driver Licence holding in Aotearoa New Zealand 2018

Webpage:

https://catalogue.data.govt.nz/dataset/rates-of-driver-licence-holding-in-aotearoa-nz

How to find the data

At URL provided, under Data and Resources, select the 'Complete set of data tables' file.

Import & extraction details

File as imported: Rates of Driver Licence holding in Aotearoa New Zealand 2018

From the dataset Rates of Driver Licence holding in Aotearoa New Zealand 2018, this data was extracted:

Sheet: 4 eth_sex
Range: B2:S8
Provided: 126 data points

This data forms the table Transport - Driver licence holders by ethnic group and sex 2018.

Dataset originally released on:

November 15, 2021

About this dataset

The dataset describes the rates at which various subpopulations of New Zealand’s population hold licences for motor cars and light motor vehicles.

Method of collection/Data provider

The population data are from the 2018 Census and licence holding is as of 6 March 2018 from New Zealand Transport Agency's Integrated Data Infrastructure extraction tables.

Driver licence holding status for Māori people in New Zealand

By sex and type of licence, 2018, number of people

About this data

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