Census roundup

Not necessarily endorsed by me, but many of these people do know what they are talking about.

• Initial reporting: Herald, Stuff, One News, Spinoff
• RNZ in more depth from Kate Newton
• With reference to the UK experience, at Stuff
• Len Cook at Newsroom The first request New Zealanders must have about these aspirational Statistics NZ changes is of transparency.
• Data Sovereignty and surveillance concerns from Māori scholars (RNZ, initially from The Conversation)
• Science Media Centre: diverse experts with varying views
• StatsNZ Future Census Evaluation Panel

I do also want to emphasize that no-one expert thinks this is a proposal to stop collecting data for the government. Administrative data already marks when you are born or die, when you enter or leave New Zealand, when you pay taxes or go to school or get health care.  This information is more reliably and rapidly collected administratively than in the Census. What we risk losing is not that, but other things.

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