EDITORIAL: The future of an ageing New Zealand needs a lot of creative attention.

COMMENT: 'digital-first' approach leaves one in ten of people in New Zealand unrecorded.

Around 10 per cent of New Zealanders didn't fill out their Census forms this year.

COMMENT: Researchers say there's a critical flaw in how Statistics NZ set up its website.

Sportsmanship has gone by the board due to the win-at-all-costs philosophy of Ocker land.

COMMENT: I'm not sure how many of results from the Census will be accurate or useful.

Census changes came too quickly.

The 2018 census is an important social accounting exercise, says one academic.

People can still complete the Census after today.

A move to online forms is confusing some people.

Mitamitaga Waka club features in promotion for 2018 Census.

Whanganui's population rose by 700 people last year

Bill would require listing at least 10 languages as "national priority languages".

Three decades of research quashes the myth that kids of same-sex couples fare worse.

Govt's claim it is acting on homelessness is "highly debatable", Opposition parties say.

Sun, surf and better salaries continue to draw Kiwis to this region in droves.

Wairoa butcher Kiri Gilbert believes any time is the right time to uplift a community, and he's done just that - through song. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Rotorua Mayor Steve Chadwick discusses the release of the Maxim Institute population decline report today, and what the Rotorua Lakes Council are doing to buck the trend. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

The perception that migrants take jobs from Kiwis and push up house prices are widespread, but the fear is overblown, a new report has found.

People think Waiheke is a playground for the rich, but many families are doing it tough, chairman says.

COMMENT: A variety of radical reforms and technocratic tweaks are being proposed for fixing the problem of low voter turnout. But which of these changes are worth voting for?

More than half of New Zealand's 41,000 homeless people are now families with children, according to new Otago University research.

Auckland councillor showed the Herald a handful of the homes in one of the country's richest suburbs, which are close to his home.

The next Census will be held on March 6, 2018 - and New Zealanders will have new options to complete it on technology including smartphones and tablets.

An analysis released by Statistics New Zealand found tens of thousands of Kiwis don't go home to a traditional house.

New Zealanders want the next census to continue to ask about religion.

Auckland's Asian population is predicted to pass 500,000 in the next decade, a new report says.

EXPLORE OUR INTERACTIVE: More migrants from Asia are using the student and worker migration policy as a path to secure permanent residence, a report says.

It's ten years today since smoking was banned in bars, but Maori are still more likely to smoke than Europeans. We map where the ethnic smoking gap lies.

Auckland's housing crisis will not be solved even if the Government's ambitious forecasts for residential construction are achieved, official documents show.