Making sense of Brexit?Data resources for exploring the referendum

Celia RussellUK Data Service @Jisc

European Social Survey

British Social Attitudes Survey

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)

Published 06 July 2016Cite this as: BMJ 2016;354:i3697

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!

UK 2011 census data

Alasdair Rae at University of Sheffield: http://www.statsmapsnpix.com/2016/06/what-can-explain-brexit.html

UK 2011 census data

Alasdair Rae at University of Sheffield: http://www.statsmapsnpix.com/2016/06/what-can-explain-brexit.html

Contextual data

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (2015): International Migration Statistics

China

IndiaPolandSpainRomania

IMF revision of GDP growth forecasts for 2017

Data source: IMF World Economic Outlook, April 2016, updated 19 July

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