right decision is made. We are going through a peer review process and we
will have that
report from MBIE very will have that report from MBIE very
soon. Question No. 12.
will
will have that report from MBIE very soon.
My
My question is to the Minister of
I
I do.
I do. How
I do. How can he have confidence in his department when there
are New Zealanders who have still not
received access codes or papers for
the 2018 census, more than a month
after census night, despite
after census night, despite
contacting the helpline and
others who completed the census
online but have been sent census documents
afterwards because there is no
record of them having
completing the
are running close to target and Stats NZ has
been investigating ways in which they might boost response
rates in the final field operation
period, which we are actually still
in at the moment. Stats NZ has
met its target for online
and
track to meet the remaining targets. The
track to meet the remaining targets.
it is running at about that. The online target was
it is running at about that. The
exceeded that target. Currently we exceeded that target. Currently we
are tracking at about
for the South Island and lower North Island and that enables us
to put resources into the areas of
greatest need and all indications are that
the census will
be completed in line with targets. How will these
many problems affect the integrity and
accuracy of the
problems affect the integrity and
won't. So we're actually on track to won't. So we're actually on track to
deliver the census exactly according
to the plan that was put in place by
a previous
a previous Minister for Statistics, Craig Foss, so all of the
decisions and plans that Minister Foss put
in place are
place are being delivered on in accordance with all of those
targets. It is important
It is important to note that this is the first census that we've actually
been able to track progress on a
daily basis. In previous
censuses we actually had to wait until the
very
Order claim. In previous censuses we had to wait until the end of the
census period before we could start
census period before we could start
enumerating and at that point we
would find out
how we were tracking. Now because of the shift to census
online we are actually able
to track everyday and that enables
us to shift resources into the areas where
there are lower
response rates. Further supplementary. What can
he say to people in
remote regions who are worried about missing out
on Government funding
Government funding for essential services because of the problems
in their regions with
services because of the problems in
This has always been true in the census that obviously there
are some areas which have lower
response rates than others. That's
why the current way of doing
the census enables us to
shift resources to those areas. There are some places
where we are doing up to
six door knocks per household in order
to make sure that those people can
be included. There are places which
we've actually hand delivered papers
to every single household
that didn't receive them yet.
That process is still continuing and fro
all indications we are on track
to
are on track to complete the census. It is
are on track to complete the census.
is in the high 90s and it looks like the census will be on track as with
historical trends. What is
his response to the Northland Age
editor Peter Jackson who says,
shows all the hall mashes of being a
Speaker, is that this census looks to be more successful
than previous censuses. That we are meeting all
of our targets and that person, whoever
..whoever wrote that article should stop believing everything
he sees on
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debate under Standing Order
389 the Government's announcement that
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