Georgina Sturge
@GRSturge
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Statistics expert and writer, formerly of the House of Commons Library. New book 'Sum of Us' out now 🙌📊 Also author of critically acclaimed 'Bad Data' (2022).
London, UK
Joined September 2015
Where do refugees to the UK come from? *Updated* version of my squiggly chart and updated briefing on asylum statistics.
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Revising statistics? The real crime is not to do it. My latest post for Substack ⬇️ .
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Recent revisions to US employment stats were less an act of inside sabotage and more about businesses behaving unexpectedly due to Trump's chaotic tariff regime. Attacks on 'phony' statisticians take us to a very dark place. My latest post for Substack:.
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Is electoral reform now inevitable? The public momentum has never been greater. And voters across all parties now back change - even Labour voters who got really lucky from FPTP in 2024. Did you know this was going on?.
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It's also really striking to see the scale of those wartime international population movements. Just crazy how many people were sent abroad and returned again. Part of the WWII peak could also be from displaced people/refugees.
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The population increase in England and Wales since 2021 is wild when taken in longer-term context. The years 2022-24 saw the largest annual population increases outside of the two world wars. Natural change was close to zero, so the increase was all from migration.
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No words to describe my love for these two. Arsenal forever ❤️🩶❤️🩶.
MICHELLE AGYEMANG AND CHLOE KELLY! 🔥. ENGLAND ARE IN THE FINAL OF THE WOMEN'S EUROS 🏆
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Today's stage of the #TourdeFrance is just so brutal. 140km of flat and then bam, 1,400km of elevation. Final 15km at an average of nearly 9%.
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RT @Lionesses: Introduced in the 78th minute. Assist for Lucy Bronze in the 79th minute. Assist for Michelle Agyemang in the 81st minute.….
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Economic forecasting is not an exact science - and no one sensible would argue that. Yet politicians increasingly use these shifting targets to make real and sometimes painful spending decisions. Should they?. My latest post for substack ⬇️.
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Reflecting on last week's drama in Parliament over welfare reform, in my substack this week I ask,. 'Who counts as disabled?'. Read now for free and subscribe!.
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Important thread illustrating how our official statistics on the population of certain nationalities in the UK may be far off the true, current numbers.
Albanians in the UK. 1/5: On 4 October 2024, The Telegraph published a headline claiming that "1 in 50 Albanians in the UK is in prison." It has since been recycled by other media and political outlets. This figure is statistically flawed. It is wrong!.
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RT @AlEmbassyUK: Albanians in the UK. 1/5: On 4 October 2024, The Telegraph published a headline claiming that "1 in 50 Albanians in the UK….
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An intervention for UK statistics - but will it be enough?. In my latest Substack post I ask 'what now?' for the beleaguered Office for National Statistics, following last week's honest but critical Devereux Review.
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How much will the ethnic profile of the UK change from migration and natural change over the next one hundred years? Will 'White British' become a minority?. I've tried to have a look at the data on this - and I didn't find what I thought I would.
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With some trepidation, in my latest piece for Substack I try to verify a claim doing the rounds that 'White British' will have become a minority ethnicity in the UK by 2063. Enjoy. ?.
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I called it 'unlikely' that a 2031 census would go ahead - oh how I'm eating my words now, and with relish. An unscheduled post from me on the announcement this week that we (most likely) will be having another census.
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Well folks, looks like we are having another census 💃🏻 . UK Stats Authority is officially endorsing it. Now ministers need to consider the recommendation and decide. Admin data is still the way of the future - but we're not done with the census yet.
uksa.statisticsauthority.gov.uk
Statistics for the Public Good
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