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[โ€“] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So the ONS is - in my opinion - pretty awesome. I think it's unlikely that they will be caving to political pressure. From what I can tell, they are basically saying the quality of the data sucks - they tried collecting it for 5 years and it didn't really work.

[โ€“] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Edit: I got the annual homeless survey and mortality figures confused.
So I deleted the comment. But that looks bad, so now I've added this explanation.