The Hawke's Bay District Health Board is encouraging people to fill in their Census forms to help inform the Government on where future health funding needs to go.
People started receiving their Census information in the post last week, ahead of Census day tomorrow.
Hawke's Bay DHB chief executive Dr Kevin Snee said funding for the public health sector was determined by the population-based Census data, and as such filling it in was vitally important.
Last conducted in 2013, this year's Census would provide a much clearer and up-to-date picture of how many people lived in the region, their ethnicity, their age, where they lived and the resources required to care for people across hospital, primary care and community health services, he said.
"Every dollar counts in health and we believe there has been an increase in the population in Hawke's Bay since the last Census judging by the increase in demand on the health system both in the community and for hospital services.