Thursday, March 23, 2006

Benson-Pope and creative statistics

Mr Benson-Pope said New Zealand has seen a steep decline in the growth rate of Sickness and Invalid’s Benefits, but there is always more work to be done.

“Under the National government the Sickness and Invalid’s Benefits grew at a rate of 69 percent and 84 percent respectively. Under the Labour-led government this rate has dropped right down to 2.7 per cent in the latest year to December.”


Combined total for invalid and sickness benefits;
1993 63,686
1999 84,836
2005 121,366

Put any spin on it you like but the numbers speak for themselves.

2 comments:

Too Right and Having A Blast said...

Yep - a good example of B-P deceit.

How about this:

"Numbers of beneficiaries taking the sickness or disability benefit under the current Labour-led Government have doubled - when compared to the National-led Government in 1993"

David Farrar said...

God he is comparing a nine year growth figure to an annual figure. Sad.