Standard English in New Zealand

Speakers

4,482,135

Type

Location

Standard English in New Zealand

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Standard English in New Zealand

Size

4,482,135

2. Status

Status

  • Official country wide language
  • Official regional language
  • Official minority language
  • Recognised community language
  • Unrecognised community language
National language
Yes
Indigenous language
No

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

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Video

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Audio

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Documentation: descriptions

Standardization

Graphisation & script encoding

4. Users

Geographical distribution

Size / Number of users

Number of users

4482135
Source
New Zealand Census 2018.
https://www.stats.govt.nz/information-releases/2018-census-totals-by-topic-national-highlights-updated/
or
https://nzdotstat.stats.govt.nz/wbos/Index.aspx
Year
2018
Comments

Count of usual residents in New Zealand who can hold an everyday conversation in English.
This number will be updated in 2024 when 2023 Census data is published.

Users within total population

95.00000
100 % use the language

PROPORTION

95
Source
New Zealand Census 2018.
https://www.stats.govt.nz/information-releases/2018-census-totals-by-topic-national-highlights-updated/
or
https://nzdotstat.stats.govt.nz/wbos/Index.aspx
Year
2018
Comments
Total of 4,699,755 usual residents counted in the 2018 census.

Users within the reference community

Age distribution of users

percentage of members of middle generations (15-65)

Age distribution of users

0
percentage of members of young generations (< 15)

Age distribution of users

percentage of members of older generations (> 65)

Generational use

Educational attainment

No education
Early childhood education
Primary education
Lower secondary education
Higher secondary education
Tertiary education

Occupational qualifications

Elementary occupations
Plant and machine operators and assemblers
Craft and related trades workers
Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers
Services and sales workers
Clerical support workers
Technicians and associate professionals
Professionals
Managers

Language competence

Language not used
Understand little, speak/sign none
Understand some, speak/sign little
Understand well, speak/sign some
Understand all, speak/sign well
Understand all, speak/sign fluently

Literacy of users

Digital use

5. Use

Socio-geographic dimension

Economic dimension

Functional dimension

Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains

Functional use in administration

Ethnoculture

Formal Education

Early childhood education
Primary level
Lower secondary level
Higher secondary level
Tertiary level

Public healthcare

Information, communication and cultural production

Legal system

Completion