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Friday, August 15, 2025
Volume 16 . Issue 72
The 2011 Census is in full swing since Saturday, 19 February, with the delivery of close to eight million census forms and Internet Access Codes to nearly two million households around New Zealand.
In the lead-up to census day on Tuesday, 8 March, over seven thousand census collectors were tasked with this mammoth job, which is crucial to ensuring everyone in New Zealand gets the message – You Count.
Census information helps determine how billions of dollars of government funding is spent in the community.
There were 354,552 Asian people in New Zealand in 2006 (at the time of the last census) – about 9% of the population. This community is growing, and it is important to know by how much, so resources are properly allocated.
Census General Manager Carol Slappendel says one of the main challenges of delivering the census forms is New Zealand’s rural and often isolated nature.
“Delivering census forms in built-up areas is pretty straightforward, but it’s when collectors have to get out into the country that things get a bit more complicated.
“We’re going to have collectors visiting DOC huts, remote rural communities, cruise ships, school camps, prisons, military bases…covering all of New Zealand is a huge challenge, but we’re up to it.”
Carol Slappendel says the 2011 Census will be the biggest census undertaken in New Zealand yet, and people can opt for the secure, quick and easy option of filling in their forms online.
You will be able to recognise a census collector by their photo identification and their blue census bag.
The census is the official count of how many people and dwellings there are in New Zealand.
You will be able to complete your census forms online or on paper, in English or Maori.
For more information about the census and to fill in your census forms online, go to www.census.govt.nz
Information about the census is available in different languages at this link: http://www.census.govt.nz/about-census/resources/about-2011-census-in-other-languages.aspx
There is also a toll-free Helpline - 0800 CENSUS (0800 236 787) - for callers to talk to people who speak Mandarin, Cantonese, Hindi, Korean and other languages.
The 2011 Census is in full swing since Saturday, 19 February, with the delivery of close to eight million census forms and Internet Access Codes to nearly two million households around New Zealand. In the lead-up to census day on Tuesday, 8 March, over seven thousand census collectors were tasked...
The 2011 Census is in full swing since Saturday, 19 February, with the delivery of close to eight million census forms and Internet Access Codes to nearly two million households around New Zealand.
In the lead-up to census day on Tuesday, 8 March, over seven thousand census collectors were tasked with this mammoth job, which is crucial to ensuring everyone in New Zealand gets the message – You Count.
Census information helps determine how billions of dollars of government funding is spent in the community.
There were 354,552 Asian people in New Zealand in 2006 (at the time of the last census) – about 9% of the population. This community is growing, and it is important to know by how much, so resources are properly allocated.
Census General Manager Carol Slappendel says one of the main challenges of delivering the census forms is New Zealand’s rural and often isolated nature.
“Delivering census forms in built-up areas is pretty straightforward, but it’s when collectors have to get out into the country that things get a bit more complicated.
“We’re going to have collectors visiting DOC huts, remote rural communities, cruise ships, school camps, prisons, military bases…covering all of New Zealand is a huge challenge, but we’re up to it.”
Carol Slappendel says the 2011 Census will be the biggest census undertaken in New Zealand yet, and people can opt for the secure, quick and easy option of filling in their forms online.
You will be able to recognise a census collector by their photo identification and their blue census bag.
The census is the official count of how many people and dwellings there are in New Zealand.
You will be able to complete your census forms online or on paper, in English or Maori.
For more information about the census and to fill in your census forms online, go to www.census.govt.nz
Information about the census is available in different languages at this link: http://www.census.govt.nz/about-census/resources/about-2011-census-in-other-languages.aspx
There is also a toll-free Helpline - 0800 CENSUS (0800 236 787) - for callers to talk to people who speak Mandarin, Cantonese, Hindi, Korean and other languages.
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