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I entered into a rather ill-tempered argument with a stranger yesterday. It started going downhill when he asserted that there were in fact 90 million people in the United Kingdom, not the 60 that I quoted from my memory of the last time I looked at the ONS figures. "But they miss all the illegals," he said.

Whilst of course census information is always inaccurate and incomplete, I was wondering what methods the ONS uses to compensate for this in order to produce a figure good enough for the government to use.

Korky
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  • So this person claims that every 3rd person in the uk is illegal? – user619894 Jan 04 '23 at 15:17
  • @user619894 That was his misinformed assertion, yes. After a few pints I found it difficult to get beyond the racist assumption there, but to dredge a little bit of usefulness out of it, it did set me wondering about how the ONS gets round the problem that such an important, consequence-laden study as a census, is faulty. – Korky Jan 04 '23 at 16:14

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