Not sure where Stuff got their statistics from, but according to The NZ Herald - At the 2001 Census, nearly 78,000 people ignored all the stated options and wrote New Zealander or Kiwi, at least 3000 of them of Maori or Pacific Island descent. (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10370546)
Quite a bit less than 50% I'd say.
For what it's worth, I'm ticking Maori and New Zealand European.
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Date: 2006-03-07 07:31 am (UTC)Quite a bit less than 50% I'd say.
For what it's worth, I'm ticking Maori and New Zealand European.