Information about census to share with your community
Images, posters, flyers, social media assets, and copy to promote the census to your networks and communities, and in your workplaces.
Tatau tātou – All of us count. All of us are part of the 2023 Census. And all of us can help share it with our networks, communities, colleagues, friends, and whānau.
This page holds material you can use to promote the 2023 Census. We encourage you to use this material for your websites, social media accounts, workplace channels, schools, meeting places – anywhere it might help people learn about the 2023 Census.
We will continue to add new material throughout the 2023 Census process. If you have any suggestions or requests for specific material, please email us. We will do our best to get you what you need.
Email: census.communications@stats.govt.nz
Thank you for your support of the 2023 Census.
Census photos for your channels
Suggested 2023 Census copy
Feel free to adapt this copy for your own channels and audiences.
- Far North
- Te Tairāwhiti
- Hawke’s Bay.
- Census collectors can help you at home to fill out your census forms.
- Call 0800 236 787 (0800 CENSUS) there is help available in nine languages.
- Visit www.census.govt.nz for information – including in NZSL, Braille, Easy Read, Large Print, and Audio formats, and 29 different languages.
- If you prefer, talk to a family member, friend, caregiver, support person, or trusted neighbour who could help with your census forms.
- Check out the census support events and locations happening in your community at www.census.govt.nz/census-support.
- Find information about the census and how to complete census forms at www.census.govt.nz
- one Dwelling Form
- an Individual Form for everyone who stayed on Census Day, 7 March.
- Far North
- Te Tairāwhiti
- Hawke’s Bay.
- Census collectors can help you at home to fill out your census forms.
- Call 0800 236 787 (0800 CENSUS) – there is help available in nine languages.
- Visit www.census.govt.nz for information – including in NZSL, Braille, Easy Read, Large Print, and Audio formats, and 29 different languages.
- If you prefer, talk to a family member, friend, caregiver, support person, or trusted neighbour who could help with your census forms.
- Check out the census support events and locations happening in your community at www.census.govt.nz/census-support.
- Find information about the census and how to complete census forms at www.census.govt.nz
- one Dwelling Form
- Individual Form for everyone who stayed on 7 March.
Be counted in the 2023 Census
Census collectors are in neighbourhoods in most parts of the country until 3 May, and in the Far North, and Te Tairāwhiti and Hawke’s Bay regions until 1 June. Census collectors can support you at home to complete your census forms. They can also collect your census forms.
Call 0800 236 787 (0800 CENSUS) to ask for a census collector to visit.
2023 Census – All of us need to be counted
The census is the official count of people living in Aotearoa New Zealand. By taking part in the census you are making sure that services for your community are funded for the number of people living there.
Complete and return your census forms now. Make a difference to the future of your community.
For more information www.census.govt.nz/all-of-us-count/
Your census information is protected
If you are concerned about what happens to your information on the census form, it is important you know that Stats NZ protects your information and your identity:
1. There are safeguards in place to keep census forms and data safe and secure.
2. When a census form is processed, your name, date of birth, and address are removed to protect your privacy.
3. Stats NZ does not share people’s personal information with other government departments or any other organisation.
All of us need to be counted in the 2023 Census
If you have not completed the census, please do it now. There is still time to be counted and help get services funded for the number of people who live in your community. Census collectors will be visiting households in most areas until Wednesday 3 May.
Because of Cyclone Gabrielle, census collectors will be in the following communities until Thursday 1 June:
For support to complete census forms:
If you have received a reminder letter, check the following forms have been completed:
If all the forms have been completed, you do not need to do anything else.
All of us need to be counted in the 2023 Census
The census is the official count of the population in Aotearoa New Zealand.
To date over 4.3 million people have completed their census forms.
That means one in five people have yet to return their forms. If you have not yet filled out your census forms, please do them now.
By taking part you are ensuring that local services like your hospital receive funding for the right number of people in your community.
Census data is used to make key decisions that impact your family, your neighbourhood, your hapū and iwi, your church group or youth group.
Please help family members, friends, and neighbours if they need support to take part.
Getting support
Census collectors will be visiting households in most areas until Wednesday 3 May.
Because of Cyclone Gabrielle, census collectors will be in the following communities until Thursday 1 June:
For support to complete census forms:
Completing census forms
When you complete your census forms, write down where you were staying on Census Day, Tuesday 7 March 2023.
If you have had to leave your home and are unsure how to answer the questions on the Dwelling Form, call the census helpline 0800 CENSUS (0800 236 787) or talk to your census collector.
Stats NZ protects your information and identity. Once you complete your census forms, your data is kept safe and secure. Stats NZ does not share your name or address with other government departments.
Reminder letters
Reminder letters have been sent to some households. For privacy reasons, each letter has a new access code printed on it. You can use any of the access codes provided to your household to complete the census online.
If your household was sent a reminder letter, check that the following forms have been completed:
If all the forms have been completed thank you. You do not need to do anything else.
Thank you for taking part in the 2023 Census and helping shape the future of New Zealand.
'All of us count - Why the census matters' booklet
A collection of stories from communities around Aotearoa New Zealand about the benefits of census data for them.
'All of us count - Why the census matters' booklet (PDF 1.2MB)
Social media imagery
Social media graphics
"There is still time to do the census" graphics
"There is still time to do the census" social media graphic - Option A (JPG 153KB)
"There is still time to do the census" social media graphic - Option B (JPG 225KB)
"There is still time to do the census" social media graphic - Option C (JPG 219KB)
"There is still time to do the census" social media graphic - Option D (JPG 232KB)
"There is still time to do the census" social media graphic - Option E (JPG 242KB)
Language aids
Language aids
Guides to help you support speakers of different languages to complete the census.
2023 Census Language Aid: Chinese (Simplified) (PDF 748KB)
2023 Census Language Aid: Chinese (Traditional) (PDF 753KB)
2023 Census Language Aid: Cook Islands Maori (PDF 779KB)
2023 Census Language Aid: Gagana Samoa (PDF 736KB)
2023 Census Language Aid: Hindi (PDF 781KB)
2023 Census Language Aid: Kiribati (PDF 733KB)
2023 Census Language Aid: Korean (PDF 796KB)
2023 Census Language Aid: Lea-Faka Tonga (PDF 785KB)
2023 Census Language Aid: Punjabi (PDF 798KB)
2023 Census Language Aid: Rotuman (PDF 785KB)
2023 Census Language Aid: Tokelau (PDF 779KB)
2023 Census Language Aid: Tuvalu (PDF 734KB)
2023 Census Language Aid: Vagahau Niue (PDF 776KB)
2023 Census Language Aid: Fiji (Vosa Vakaviti) (PDF 738KB)