Another source of sexual orientation statistics comes from the New Zealand Health Survey commissioned by the Ministry of Health. There has not been an official release of the demographics but an article using the Health Survey for years 2016 to 2017 reported that 2.4 percent of the sampled population reported being homosexual or bisexual. However, there could be some under reporting given that 7.3 percent of the sample either did not know their sexual identity or refused to answer the question.