RE: The poor old beleagured ONS' struggles with migration data....
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I’ve always considered statistics to be unreliable to a degree because as you say, it’s so easy to miss important data points which could impact the results drastically. I’m sure there are some who do massage the data to give them what they want to see. Especially where immigration is concerned.
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Immigration is one of the trickier ones... > I wonder how many unregistered people are slipping through not on small boats!?
Exactly, a friend of my wife’s said the boat figures are massively inflated. Truth is most of these people sneak in via other means or overstay. They come in for a holiday or work a work visa of some kind but don’t return home!