Good decision #nzpol Labour has pulled its support for changing the census. The Government is now short of the ‘supermajority’ it needs. Labour said it was not opposed in principle to modernising the census, but was not confident the administrative data model “would be accurate or reliable enough."
Govt’s census overhaul thrown into doubt after Labour pulls supportOpposition parties warn relying on government agency data instead of a full census risks undercounting Māori and minority groups.newsroom.co.nz