Tonight's the night - it's time to get that census form filled out.
Stats NZ is hoping a lot of people do because the response so far hasn't been as high as what was hoped.
While 1.5 million people have completed the survey online already, there are still 3.5 million to go.
Some people Newshub spoke to are yet to fill out the census.
"I don't even know what that is sorry," one said.
"Once I find out what [the census] is I will [fill it out]," another said.
But it's a requirement to do it, even for those who are only visiting.
Officials are hoping they won't confuse too many because the census tells us what we need to know about the country. It also gives government agencies the information they need to best allocate funding and support.
"If they don't, obviously there's a whole lot of follow-up. We door-knock, we try several ways to get them to fill out the census. There are penalties if you don't," said Statistics Minister Deborah Russell.
This could include a fine of up to $2000.
Census workers are going door-to-door to make sure people do fill it out.
"The team are flat-tack," said Simon Mason from Stats NZ.
But they're facing a few obstacles.
"Abuse and threats has been a very minor part of the hazards our teams have experienced. It's mainly been dogs," Mason said.
Despite that, crews are committed to getting the data because they need a bigger response.
"I'd always hope for a higher degree of response before census. It just makes some of the non-response follow-up that we do after the census a little bit easier for us."
The last census in 2018 had the lowest response rate in 50 years, particularly with Māori. Russell doesn't know how many Māori have been captured so far.
"Why not?" asked Māori Party co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer. "Because that's a specific target that they missed out. They failed us dismally last time, so why doesn't she know."
But Russell is betting her job on the overall numbers being better than last time.
"Absolutely," she said in response to being asked if she'd be willing to stake her job on hitting that 90 percent target. But said it was a "step too far" to say she'd resign.
So there's a lot at stake as we wait to see how many people fill out the census and what kind of picture that paints of our country.
