Understanding New Zealand: A statistical journey through the demographic diversity of Aotearoa

by Dan McGlashan, Vince McLeod (Editor)

Dan McGlashan’s Understanding New Zealand is the long-awaited demographic analysis of the full breadth of the people of Aotearoa. Across 57 chapters, this book tells you which Kiwis voted for which parties in the 2014 and 2017 General Elections, exactly which demographics supported those parties and how strongly. It also discusses the various interrelations between age, income, sex, education, occupation, industry, ethnicity, religion, tenure of dwelling, how the North Island compares to the South and even tobacco smoking habits. To make the work comprehensive, McGlashan even discusses the interrelations between all of these categories and voting patterns. Over 11,000 correlations were examined in the writing of this book, allowing McGlashan to bring enlightenment to any Kiwi with an interest in sociology, psychology, anthropology or politics.

342 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 6, 2017