Ethnicity

Question 1

An ____ refers to a group of people who identify with each other based on similarities such as common ancestry, language, society, culture, or nation.

Answer 1

ethnicity

Question 2

The term ‘ethnicity’ has come to replace the outdated and defunct term ‘____’ which was and is used to highlight a supposed biological rather than cultural differences between people groups.

Answer 2

race

Question 3

New Zealand has four main ____ groups European or other, Maori, Pacific peoples, and Asian.

Answer 3

ethnic

Question 4

Ethnicity is not a predetermined state as race may have been but rather is ____ by the individual.

Answer 4

self-identified

Question 5

Neither is one restricted to just one ethnicity the individual can identify with ____ ethnicities.

Answer 5

multiple

Question 6

This has become evident in recent iterations of the New Zealand census in which individuals have exercised their right to ____ more than one ethnicity, for example Maori and Pacific peoples, or European and Maori.

Answer 6

identify

Question 7

This then creates an ethnic ____ where the population headcount is different from the response count.

Answer 7

overcount

Question 8

This can be easily addressed by summing responses to ____.

Answer 8

100%

Question 9

Ethnicity further provides much needed information about inequalities by identifying ____ between ethnic groups such as income, birth rates, mortality, household compositions and so on, with the goal of reducing those disparities.

Answer 9

disparities