11.1 Age and Ethnicity

The 1145 remand inmates (made up of 73 females and 1072 males) represented just 18 percent of the total of 6,240 inmates (excluding home detainees).

Compared to the sentenced inmate population (see Tables 3-1), the remand population tends to be younger: the age profile of remand inmates reveals 33 percent were aged 17 to 24 years at the time of the census, and only 16 percent over 40 years old.

Table 11-1 Age of remand inmates

Age	Female		Male		Total
Age	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent
14 - 16	0	0.0%	2	0.2%	2	0.2%
17 - 19	5	6.8%	129	12.0%	134	11.7%
20 - 24	20	27.4%	226	21.1%	246	21.5%
25 - 29	9	12.3%	219	20.4%	228	19.9%
30 - 34	17	23.3%	180	16.8%	197	17.2%
35 - 39	11	15.1%	142	13.2%	153	13.4%
40 - 49	9	12.3%	128	11.9%	137	12.0%
50 - 59	2	2.7%	29	2.7%	31	2.7%
60 +	0	0.0%	11	1.0%	11	1.0%
Not recorded	0	0.0%	6	0.6%	6	0.5%
Total	73	100.0%	1072	100.0%	1145	100.0%

Percentages may not add to 100 because of rounding.

Of the remanded inmates, 374 indicated identification with more than one ethnicity, with a small number (4) identifying as many as four ethnicities. Ethnicities were grouped and individuals categorised as shown in the table below: 51 percent of the total remand inmates identified themselves solely as M?ori.

Table 11-2 Ethnic group of remand inmates

Ethnic group	Female		Male		Total
Ethnic group	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent
European	20	27.4%	291	27.1%	311	27.2%
European and M?ori	4	5.5%	46	4.3%	50	4.4%
M?ori	41	56.2%	540	50.4%	581	50.7%
M?ori and Pacific	1	1.45	22	2.1%	23	2.0%
Pacific Peoples	2	2.7%	85	7.9%	87	7.6%
Other (incl. Asian)	5	6.8%	88	8.2%	93	8.1%
Total	73	100.0%	1072	100.0%	1145	100.0%

Percentages may not add to 100 because of rounding. The ethnic groups used above are as for previous census reports however it should be noted that this format masks much of the cultural diversity recorded by the inmates. In the categories “European and M?ori” and “M?ori and Pacific” no importance is attached to the order of ethnicity used in the group title.

The table below shows the ethnicity by age breakdown for remanded inmates (both female and male inmates).

Table 11-3 Ethnic group by age for remanded inmates

	M?ori		European		Pacific		Asian		Other/NA		Total
Age	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
14 - 16	2	0.3	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	2	0.2
17 - 19	81	13.0	29	8.6	16	15.4	4	8.5	4	11.4	134	11.7
20 - 24	132	21.3	70	20.7	18	17.3	17	36.2	9	25.7	246	21.5
25 - 29	128	20.6	56	16.6	29	27.9	7	14.9	8	22.9	228	19.9
30 - 34	103	16.6	64	18.9	20	19.2	7	14.9	3	8.6	197	17.2
35 - 39	79	12.7	52	15.4	12	11.5	5	10.6	5	14.3	153	13.4
40 - 49	74	11.9	47	13.9	6	5.8	5	10.6	5	14.3	137	12.0
50 - 59	13	2.1	15	4.4	1	1.0	1	2.1	1	2.9	32	2.7
60 +	5	0.8	4	1.2	2	1.9	0	0.0	0	0.0	11	1.0
NA	4	0.6	1	0.3	0	0.0	1	2.1	0	0.0	6	0.5
Total	621	100.0	338	100.0	104	100.0	47	100.0	35	100.0	1145	100.0

‘NA’ represents where age or ethnicity was not available.