The regulatory body says other changes to qualifications, school performance measures and university admissions will also have contributed to the decline in appeals.
There's also information on the qualifications school leavers have.
As for men, women with no qualifications, school qualifications and post-school certificates are relatively undereducated compared with NZ-born women, and while the degree of this declines over time, it remains large.
Mr Clegg insisted that this message should be heard by everyone, but that many children from poorer homes look at certain qualifications, schools, universities and jobs and believe they are not meant for them, because that is what they are continually told.
Educational qualification was classified as no formal qualification, school intermediate education, trade, apprenticeship, and university and higher education.
We used four measures of the respondent's current SEP at Wave 3. Education was measured using the respondent's maximum educational qualification over the three waves and categorised as no qualification, school, post-school vocational, or degree and higher qualifications.
Educational achievement was grouped into whether a woman had a postschool qualification, a school qualification only, or no qualifications.
When calculating the modal qualification in each occupation, we use the following more aggregate classification: (i) no qualification; (ii) school qualification; (iii) post-school certificate; (iv) post-school diploma; (v) bachelor degree; and (vi) higher degree.
For men, 22 % of the sample has no qualifications, 27%% school qualifications, 23%% post-school certificates, 11%% post-school diplomas, 11%% bachelor degrees and 6%% higher degrees.
For foreign-born individuals who have no qualifications, overseas school qualifications or post-school qualifications that cannot be classified by Statistics New Zealand to an equivalent New Zealand qualification, we calculate years of education by using the data collected by Barro & Lee (2001) on worldwide educational attainment.
In particular, we estimate separate regression models, by gender, for individuals whose highest qualification is (i) no qualification, (ii) a school qualification, (iii) a post-school certificate, (iv) a post-school diploma, (v) a bachelor degree or (vi) a higher university degree.
