An inflatable craft carrying migrant men, women and children crosses the shipping lane in the English Channel in July 2021
He used other materials, including Facebook, to reach the conclusion, as well as revealing that in 2019 there may have been an additional 20 per cent more migrants in the UK. ‘Calculating migration is always going to be complicated. But the reason for the underestimate is the lack of quality of the official migration data.‘This is important because decision-makers require accurate evidence-based information to produce effective policies that affect people’s lives.’
But, the UK still uses a survey-based system to collect migration information and relies heavily on the International Passenger Survey , created 60 years ago in 1961, which the ONS admits ‘has been stretched beyond its original purpose’.
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