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nzcity: Ethnic Groups in Sixteen New Zealand Cities

Description

This data set contains the digital boundaries of sixteen New Zealand cities and the population by ethnic groups (2006).

Usage

data(nzcity)

format

A class of list. Each element contains the digital boundaries and the population data for one of the following New Zealand cities:

rll{ [[1]] AKC Auckland [[2]] CHC Christchurch [[3]] DUN Dunedin [[4]] HMT Hamilton [[5]] INV Invercargill [[6]] LHT Lower Hutt [[7]] MKC Manukau [[8]] NAP Napier [[9]] NEL Nelson [[10]] NSC North Shore [[11]] PAL Palmerston North [[12]] POR Porirua [[13]] TAU Tauranga [[14]] UHT Upper Hutt [[15]] WAI Waitakere [[16]] WEL Wellington }

Each element is a class of SpatialPolygonsDataFrame, and the data slot contains population counts by census tracts (rows) and ethnic groups (columns). Each column indicates the following information:

AU Area Unit names.

EUROPEAN The number of Europeans who identified with one or more European ethnicities in the 2006 census. The largest ethnicity among European people is New Zealand European, followed by English, Dutch, Australian, South African, Scottish and Irish.

MAORI The number of Maori people who identified with the Maori ethnic group in the 2006 census.

PACIFIC The number of Pacific peoples who identified with one or more Pacific ethnicities in the 2006 census. The seven largest ethnicities among Pacific peoples are Cook Island Maori, Fijian, Niuean, Samoan, Tokelauan, Tongan and Tuvaluan peoples.

ASIAN The number of Asian people who identified with one or more Asian ethnicities in the 2006 census. The largest ethnicity among Asian people is Chinese, followed by Indian, Korean, Filipino, Japanese, Sri Lankan, Cambodian and Thai.

MELAA The number of people who were represented in MELAA in the 2006 census. The MELAA ethnic group includes people of Middle Eastern, African and Latin American ethnicities.

OTHER The number of people who belonged to other groups that do not fit into the five other groupings.

source

http://www.stats.govt.nz/Census/about-2006-census.aspx{Statistics New Zealand} and licensed by Statistics New Zealand for re-use under the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz/deed.en{Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand licence}.

Examples

data(nzcity)
summary(nzcity$WEL[,2:7])
plot(nzcity$WEL, border = "Grey 50", col = "Grey 90")
plot(nzcity$WEL[nzcity$WEL$ASIAN > 500,], border = "Grey 50", col = "Grey 70", add = TRUE)
title(main = "Wellington City", xlab = "Areas with more than 500 Asians")