The five-yearly Census of Population and Dwellings is a very important item on Tokelau’s agenda. Its results provide the most authoritative data on how many people we have, what the composition of their households is, what education level they have, how they contribute to Tokelau’s economy, and so on.
As a non-self- governing territory, Tokelau has a special constitutional relationship with New Zealand. This special relationship is strengthened by connections between the tiny Tokelau National Statistics Office (TNSO) and Statistics NZ. It is the latter organisation that has been largely responsible for the excellent Tokelau Censuses in 2006, 2011, and again in 2016.
Version 01: De-identifed, cleaned and labelled version of the Master file. This is the first systematic effort in documenting the 2016 Tokelau Census. All output documentation is available on the Tokelau website tinyurl.com/TokelauCensus but any efforts to collate data have been an internal matter so far. The DDI approach aims to make all Census material (albeit anonymised) internationally accessible.
-HOUSEHOLD: Dwelling age; number of rooms; sources of water; means of cooking; rubbish disposal; household items; access to Sky TV, internet; numbers of pigs and chickens; sources of income; combined annual household income
-INDIVIDUALS: Name (suppressed), sex, age (birthdates suppressed), relationship to household head; living where; ethnicity; life statisfaction; self-assessed health; religion; birth mother and father still alive; language skills: speaking and writing; early childhood ecudation; address 5 years ago; education and qualifications; marital status; paid and unpaid employment; smoking; sense of belonging; social contact; children given birth to
- Collection start: 2016
- Collection end: 2016
