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.
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.
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.
Labour points out that 20% of maths lessons are taught by teachers without relevant post-A-level qualifications and schools face increasing difficulties trying to fill maths posts.
Her speech included a stinging attack on the state of qualifications in schools under Labour, saying that grade inflation and meaningless vocational awards amounted to "snobbery" by policymakers.
English and maths GCSEs are key qualifications for schools as they are judged on their results in these subjects.
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.
