There's still time to be like visiting pop star Harry Styles and fill in your census form to avoid the possibility of being stung with a $2000 fine.
More than 2.6 million people did get theirs in on time, but that's just over a 50 percent response rate.
It doesn't get more Kiwi than Harry Styles singing Tūtira Mai Ngā Iwi, but he went one step further and asked everyone at Auckland's Tuesday concert: "Did everyone do the census thing? I'm told that if anyone hasn't done it, we have to stop the show and fill out the paperwork, so everyone's done it? I've done it."
The pop star was among two and a half million people who took part in the census. While not everyone got the memo, there's no need to panic because there's still time to get your form in.
"You can submit your forms anytime in the next couple of days or even weeks, but we will be sending collectors out and about to knock on doors we haven't heard from," Census's Simon Mason said.
For people who don't speak English, it's a challenge to work the system.
"People coming from different countries don't have the same system and that's why they don't understand why they should do it and they don't really understand why they should disclose private information and they're worried about confidentiality," Asian Family Services CEO Kelly Feng told Newshub.
Support materials are available in at least 26 different languages and the form itself is available in English and te reo Māori.
However Feng said more work needs to be done to raise awareness of how the census will affect migrant communities.
"Data collected from [the] census is important for those community groups and government agencies to allocate spending," Mason said.
Important to be counted in order to be cared for.
