A Government (being somewhat generous here) that has relied on modelers and experts more in tune with the drip under pressure than actual people with superior knowledge to the average plebeian, for all their basis for decision making over the past five years now needs a census to discover the vital information needed for an accurate data base for such matters as electorates, health infrastructure, and many other suggested claimed official activity.
In what is shaping up as an utter cluster, duplication, omission and typical waste practice leaves a question what is really going on.
In previous times enumerators went door to door issuing papers and ensuring a “Nominal head of every household” was obligated legally to ensure an accurate count of heads was to happen on the night of a specified date with warnings of any failure to comply resulting in legal sanction. The enumerators then returned within days to collect and make a cursory check that the law had been complied wih.
An incorrigible english import who went by the adopted title “The Christchurch Wizard” went to some extraordinary lengths to avoid his obligations over many such events.
In these chaotic times of homelessness, work shy who rely on welfare and petty crime, disunited families and socially chaotic persons from substance abuse and mental illness are relied on to provide an accurate statistical count of souls in our country.
Cripes the powers cannot even get half the school age children to attend school.
Perhaps I am missing another distraction from something actually important because data for a 21st century doomsday book, the 2023 official census seems more “Alice in Wonderland”, or Malice in Blunderland perhaps.
No Minister 
At least the Wizard of Christchurch bought some humour to the event!!!!
Be very wary of what you write on your census forms other than the basics. This census is a sinister and malevolent info grab to assist Liarbour target funding(bribes) to get re-elected. It will surely involve our 100+ principal investigators at https://www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/our-team/principal-investigators/ to investigate dissenters and anti-vaxers.
As M Cullen used to tell them… ‘you just need do something’. So they do something, generally useless. The whole of HB and up the coast will not be partaking.
As the West collapses, disappearing up it own arse our betters are floundering as they struggle to keep their (malevolent) control over us.
Don’t worry GD, the future belongs to the East where common sense and engineering rule rather than sociology and marketing
Hahahahahahaha… Spare me this triumphant, reductionist BS, Andrei. It’s not as if I disagree with your analysis of the Western situation, but you’re faith in the mere numbers of Chinese engineering graduates is primitive, to say the least.\
The “East” is going to get old before it gets rich.
LOL
median age New Zealand – 37.4
median age China – 37.9
Still we are both doing better than the USA – median age 38.1 years
and as for Germany median age 44.9
Chechens on the other hand are thriving, median age – 24.9 but mind you Chechen women are gorgeous and not the repulsive tattooed harridans like those we encounter on a daily basis while Chechen men take pride in their masculinity and are not the apologetic limp dicked wimps that western men have been reduced to
Why would I worry Andrei an octogenarian has much more important matters to confront but I fear you are correct, no problem of 40% truancy for any Asians I know.