Tokelauan people in New Zealand

Motor vehicles

• Tokelauan people experienced an improvement in motor vehicle access in the decade from 1991. In 2001, 78 percent of Tokelauans lived in households with access to a motor vehicle – up from 68 percent in 1996 and 66 percent in 1991. The comparable proportions for the Pacific and New Zealand populations in 2001 were 86 percent and 93 percent respectively.
• The New Zealand-born and overseas-born Tokelauan populations in New Zealand had similar levels of household motor vehicle access in 2001 (74 percent and 81 percent respectively).

Telecommunications

• In 2001, 87 percent of Tokelauan people were living in households with access to a telephone – the same proportion as the Pacific population (87 percent). Among the New Zealand population, household telephone access was 95 percent.
• Similar proportions of New Zealand-born and overseas-born Tokelauan people lived in households with telephone access in 2001 (87 percent and 86 percent respectively).
• Seventeen percent of Tokelauan people were living in households with access to the Internet in 2001 – slightly below the Pacific population (20 percent). The equivalent proportion among the New Zealand population was 43 percent.
• New Zealand-born Tokelauan people were more likely to live in households with Internet access (18 percent) than overseas-born Tokelauans (14 percent).