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Absentee
en-NZ
Description
An absentee is identified on the census dwelling form or the household set-up form as someone who usually lives in a particular dwelling but has not completed a census individual form there – because the person was elsewhere in New Zealand or overseas on census night. Such a person may have completed a census individual form elsewhere in New Zealand.
The dwelling form and household set-up form provide guidance on who to count/not count as an absentee in the census.
Included are children away at boarding school, people away on holiday, away for work, in hospital for a short time, and so on.
Excluded are university or other tertiary students who live somewhere else for most of the year.
en-NZ