{"id":617458,"date":"2025-12-07T07:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T07:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/617458\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T07:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T07:14:12","slug":"uk-flying-blind-in-key-policy-areas-thanks-to-unreliable-official-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/617458\/","title":{"rendered":"UK \u2018flying blind\u2019 in key policy areas thanks to unreliable official data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p role=\"text\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"is_Paragraph font_caslonIonic _dsp-inline _bxs-border-box _ww-break-word _mt-0px _mr-0px _mb-0px _ml-0px _ff-f-family _fw-f-weight-3048 _fs-f-size-18 _lh-f-lineHeigh3500605 _col-c-grey_600 _select-auto _ws-normal\">Peter Levell, \ufeffdeputy \ufeffresearch \ufeffdirector at the IFS and an expert advis\ufeffer to the ONS, said that declining response rates were a challenge affecting the entire research industry, not just the ONS and it is for this reason that migration numbers have been revised\ufeff; use of survey data has been phased out in favour of using administrative data such as visa information, which is widely considered to be \ufeffmore accurate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peter Levell, \ufeffdeputy \ufeffresearch \ufeffdirector at the IFS and an expert advis\ufeffer to the ONS, said that declining&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,2814,393,4884,40,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-617458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-data","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-immigration","14":"tag-northern-ireland","15":"tag-scotland","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115677053916378418","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}