The 2023 Household Disability Survey has found 10 per cent of all children and 18 per cent of adults are disabled, reaching a total of 851,000 people.
But that's a drop from the equivalent data in 2013, which identified one in four people.
That's because the standards used to identify disability have changed, and with us to talk through those changes is Jonathan Godfrey.
He's a Massey University statistics professor and a disabled person himself, currently serving as the president of Blind Citizens NZ.
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