4. Danny Dorling uses data from Understanding Society in a
post-Brexit BMJ editorial on to argue that:
• Mortality rates have risen in the UK in last 12 months
• Self reported health has sharply declined
• Attributed to austerity cuts – older middle class lost rural
transport and social care
• The leave campaign attributed decline in well-being to
immigration rather than national failings
• However, immigrants are on average younger, healthier
educated – and often working in the NHS themselves
Understanding Society
(a major longitudinal household survey)
6. Referendum counting areas can be mapped
onto 2011 UK census output areas
Can explore voting patterns by:
• Health
• Housing type (strong
association in 2015 general
election)
• Housing conditions
• Work status
• Education level
• Local demographies: age,
self-reported identity,
nationality, ethnicities etc
• Religion
• Holding a passport!
7. UK 2011 census data
Alasdair Rae at University of Sheffield: http://www.statsmapsnpix.com/2016/06/what-can-explain-brexit.html
8. UK 2011 census data
Alasdair Rae at University of Sheffield: http://www.statsmapsnpix.com/2016/06/what-can-explain-brexit.html
9. Contextual data
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (2015):
International Migration Statistics
China
India
Poland
Spain
Romania
10. IMF revision of GDP growth forecasts for 2017
Data source: IMF World Economic Outlook, April 2016, updated 19 July