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ONS has been working hard in the UK to revise their method of assessing immigration numbers, after the previous system undercounted by at least 1.6m (https://ww
by atdrummond 3y ago
ONS has been working hard in the UK to revise their method of assessing immigration numbers, after the previous system undercounted by at least 1.6m (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/06/24/eu-immigration-uk-underestimated-16-million/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/06/24/eu-immigrati...).
Papua New Guinea’s population was significantly larger than thought - closer to 18 million than 9 million. (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11507443/amp/Papua-new-guineas-population-doubles-overnight.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11507443/amp/Papua-...)
Suffice to say, this is a problem us Economic Historians and many other social scientists have been aware of for some time.
- pjc50 3y agoThe UK, unlike continental Europe, doesn't have either domestic registration or even exit passport number tracking. The EU has a much better idea of how many people are legally in Schengen than the UK does about EU nationals.
- wolverine876 3y agoYou're concerned about bogus data, and using the Daily Mail as the source of truth for verification?
- atdrummond 3y agoThe DM isn’t the source and there are dozens of articles that will report the same finding. I’m not going to spend the extra time to find an ideologically neutral “news” org for an HN post when the topic being discussed is generally agreed upon.