27/10/2023
X Walsh
[FYI request #24385 email]
Tēnā koe X Walsh,
OIA: 1318856 – The number of enrolled domestic tertiary students vs the number of student
allowance recipients since 2000
Thank you for your email of 10 October 2023 to the Ministry of Social Development (MSD)
requesting the following information:
What is the number of enrolled domestic tertiary students vs the number of student
allowance recipients over the past 23 years since 2000, including numbers and relevant
percentages - preferably in a table.
Your request was transferred to the Ministry of Education (the Ministry) for response and has been
considered under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act).
Table 1 below provides the information you have requested from 2000 to 2022.
Please note that:
The count of domestic students relates to domestic students enrolled at any time during the
calendar year. This excludes industry training, non-government-funded private training
establishments, formal courses of a week or less, and all non-formal learning.
In line with the Ministry’s data protocols, the domestic student count has been rounded to
the nearest multiple of five.
The number of loan and allowance recipients since 2020 has been randomly rounded to
base three in accordance with MSD’s privacy protection policy.
Wellington National Office, 1 The Terrace, Levels 5 to 14, Wellington 6011
PO Box 1666, Wellington 6140, DX SR51201 Phone: +64 4 463 8000
Table 1: Number of domestic students, student loan borrowers and student allowance recipients in
calendar years from 2000 to 2022
Percentage of Percentage of
Number of
domestic
domestic
Number of
Number of
student
students
student
domestic
student loan
allowance
receiving a
receiving an
Year
students
borrowers
recipients
student loan
allowance
2000 314615
128107
68084 41% 22%
2001 342440
148142
70231 43% 21%
2002 379825
150526
68869 40% 18%
2003 407415
156250
64036 38% 16%
2004 432740
157032
60826 36% 14%
2005 452405
154411
56806 34% 13%
2006 445480
167420
59431 38% 13%
2007 441710
173791
62479 39% 14%
2008 418655
178533
65702 43% 16%
2009 422985
198738
82633 47% 20%
2010 418170
212485
95945 51% 23%
2011 381455
207330
99271 54% 26%
2012 372765
201187
96908 54% 26%
2013 368680
192257
85099 52% 23%
2014 363070
186477
79672 51% 22%
2015 358040
182537
75051 51% 21%
2016 353490
176938
71028 50% 20%
2017 343580
170037
65352 49% 19%
2018 335610
154608
64728 46% 19%
2019 328095
149229
62495 45% 19%
2020 329175
148905
61722 45% 19%
2021 358780
146994
62814 41% 18%
2022 343990
129711
51423 38% 15%
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OIA: 1318856
Thank you again for your email. You have the right to ask an Ombudsman to review my decision
on your request, in accordance with section 28 of the Act. You can do this by writing to
[email address] or to Office of the Ombudsman, PO Box 10152, Wellington 6143.
Nāku noa, nā
Andy Jackson
Hautū | Deputy Secretary
Te Pou Kaupapahere | Policy
OIA: 1318856
