Kia ora koutou,
We’re starting work on next year’s CensusAtSchool questionnaire and would love your help to keep it relevant and engaging.
There is no fixed commitment. You can contribute as much or as little as you like, from a five-minute review to trialing a draft survey with your class.
If you’re interested in helping shape the survey, please contact us to let us know.
As covered in our Behind the Questions Guide, this process includes:
- Deciding which questions to keep, update, or remove.
- Sifting through student-submitted questions from the current survey.
- Proposing new questions and testing them with students.
- Checking survey length, Māori translation, technical functionality, and external review by the Ministry of Education, Stats NZ, and Stats NZ’s questionnaire design team.
We look for questions that are:
- Engaging, positive, relevant, easy for young students to understand and answer, and engaging for students.
- Suitable for a variety of data analysis activities and time-series comparisons.
- Covering well-being, lifestyle, interests, and opinions, and avoiding illegal or unsafe behaviours.
- Also asked by Stats NZ in official data surveys and international CensusAtSchool partners.
