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Press, 26 February 1986, Page 28

. Thefuture is in our hands \ .-.r ' W W ........ ■ .I—y < / ■ , / yffX Last year 52,000 new babies were ■■ jSJSfr _ ‘ Imagine how difficult bom in New Zealand. This year .'■ “ would be to P lan f° r a we’re expecting a similar number. new child care centre or Who knows what the future holds " hospital wing without the right for them ... what they’ll be doing statistics at hand, in 30 years ... where they 11 be ;v "' fe personal details hvmg - kept confidential? There’s one way every one of us can ..... From the minute you hand in help make their future brighter. It s called participating in the your completed. Questionnaires total Census ’B6. you’re doing your bit to help in our confidentiality is guaranteed. ’ Tuesday, March 4th is Census Day fhr th? Completed questionnaires are seen New Zealand’s national census is S[ure Z d plannmg f ° r the only by trained workers of the carried out every five years. To put it ’ Department of Statistics. These simply, a census is the official count of Where does all my information go? employees are bound to secrecy under our population and housing and covers A few days after March 4th a the Statlstlcs Act - areas like family groups, employment, census officer will call at your home The main reason you have to income and transport. Because it is and collect your completed supply your name and address is to held at regular five yearly intervals, a questionnaires. From there, they are make sure that every dwelling and census helps us accurately measure our taken to the Department of Statistics person is counted once, progress as a society. It helps us keep where trained workers turn all the None of the census information is in touch with a changing population. information into valuable statistics. made available as personal facts about It helps us plan for a better future. All sorts o f organisations need individuals. Rather, the statistics Whv do I have to take part? census statistics. Local authorities, produced are about different groups in The law states that everv single business and community organisations, New Zealand society and no ine taw states mat every single . government — tkgy a u nee j a individuals can be identified, one of us has to correcdy complete the g overn m e nt they atlneed a census questionnaires. As New - informa ’ ion t 0 make Zealand citizens it .sour statutory the right planning „ ~ ~ . . „ , obligation. decisions ou see ’ rt rea^ylS important It makes good sense. If a number - t 0 have a re S ular census. It’s equally of people opted out of this year’s as important we all take part. Without census, important information would . your information, it’s difficult to make be missing. No country can function the sound decisions necessary for our effectively without correct information ' ; " ' country s development. With it, we on which to base it’s social and . / ''' ?' _ can plan for a bright future - for economic plans. . ; a , ourselves and for generations to come. W — r Census/ We all count for New Zealand , ‘ SDI 3 OGILVY