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Fri 24 Apr 2015 12:02AM

Citizenship/ residence status

SD Sophie Davies Public Seen by 403

Interest in information on citizenship was identified during consultation for the previous two censuses.
The types of organisations that have expressed a strong interest in this data include central government agencies, community groups, private organisations, and researchers.

However, there are difficulties in measuring citizenship. For example, some people not born in New Zealand have citizenship of right. Others have lived in New Zealand for many decades and have never taken citizenship. A significant population of people are here on other residence provisions.

The argument can be made that the census is not the best way to collect the detail to distinguish between different citizenship, residency, and visa statuses. Multiple questions would be required to meet all information needs, and these would be difficult and overly technical for respondents.

Our current recommendations relating to citizenship/ residence status

  • We recommend that citizenship not be included in the 2018 Census.

See our preliminary view of 2018 Census content (pages 27-28) for a more detailed discussion on citizenship/ residence status information

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Henriette(facilitator) Sun 21 Jun 2015 9:26PM

Thanks @davidschaaf for your further thoughts - I would encourage you to make a formal submission. Note that the 2018 Census Content determination framework to be found in the Appendix on Pg 65 of the Preliminary view of 2018 Census content outlines the criteria that is used to determine the 2018 Census content and that submissions are assessed against these criteria.

Further to this a reminder to others interested in the discussion thread on citizenship/residence status that the online engagement process will finish in conjunction with the closing date for formal submissions on 30th June 2015. Please note that your best opportunity for influencing and helping shape the content of the 2018 Census is to make a formal submission. Statistics NZ welcomes feedback on their current recommendation that citizenship/residence status not be included in the 2018 Census.