In the figures that follow, we present findings for the following ethnic groups: New Zealand European, Māori, Pacific peoples, Asian, MELAA (Middle Eastern, Latin American and African), and Other ethnicity. First, we illustrate households’ working status by ethnicity (Figure 4) and find Māori households have the lowest prevalence of being in-work at 76.4 percent. New Zealand European (85.6 percent), Pacific peoples (82.4 percent) and MELAA (80.7 percent) households have substantially higher and broadly comparable in-work status, while households of Other ethnicity are the most likely to be in-work, at 88.3 percent. Figure 4. Ethnicity and working status Working status at the household level 100% 90% 88.3% 86.7% 85.6% 82.4% 80% 80.7% 76.4% 70% NZ European Māori Pacific peoples Asian MELAA Other ethnicity Source: IDI 2019. Notes: Working status as defined in Section 3. Figure 5. Ethnicity and in-work poverty rate 9.5% 10.0% 9.4% 9.5% In-work poverty rate 8.6% 7.5% 5.0% 5.5% 5.9% 2.5% 0.0% NZ European Māori Pacific peoples Asian MELAA Other ethnicity Source: IDI 2019. Notes: In-work poverty rate as defined in Section 3. The dashed line refers to the overall in-work poverty rate (6.9 percent based on 845,244 working household units defined by ethnicity). Page 24