10 April 2024
Tiana E
[FYI request #26141 email]
Tēnā koe Tiana E
Official Information Act (OIA) request: Discussion of and the decision to make the
2018 census digital first
On 18 March 2024
, you contacted Stats NZ requesting, under the Official Information Act
1982 (the Act), the following information:
•
My request is for papers given to the minister of statistics about making the 2018
census primarily a digital process.
I would like to see these from 2010 to 2018
The documents you have requested are publicly available at the following link, as part of
our answer to a previous OIA request released on 1 May 2018:
https://statsnz.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p20045coll24/id/66/rec/1
For ease of reference, the documents are also attached to this letter. These are :
Date
Document
Page
no.
June
Report to the Minister of Statistics: Submitting Cabinet paper – The 1
2014
2018 Census – Submission of Detailed Business Case and
Release of Tagged Contingency Funding to Cabinet Economic
Growth and Infrastructure Committee
June
Cabinet Paper: The 2018 Census – Submission of detailed
4
2014
business case and release of tagged contingency funding
(business case attached)
October
2018 Census Strategy
27
2014
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Nāku noa, nā
Mike Webb
Senior Manager – Executive & Government Relations | Office of the Chief Executive
Stats NZ Tatauranga Aotearoa
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