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Migration figures are what hits the headlines, causing the government most anxiety.
The migration figures are notoriously poor and difficult to interpret, however.
Although Britain's migration figures are ropey, other data point in the same direction.
Net migration figures are calculated from the International Passenger Survey, which is woefully inadequate at tracking where international students end up.
Ministers will be looking for signs that European Union migration to Britain for work has peaked when the next set of quarterly migration figures are published on Thursday.
Proposals on language thresholds, refusal rates and students remaining in the migration figures are still on the table and, no doubt, in various Home Office drafts of an imminent immigration white paper.
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The trouble with net migration figures is there's so little control over it.
Eurosceptics were hoping the ONS inquiry would lead to "a bombshell report" and the official migration figures being declared unreliable.
Alex Glennie of the Institute of Public Policy Research said the net migration figures were bad news for the government and for Britain.
It concluded that the international passenger survey on which the migration figures were based remained the best source of information for measuring long-term migration.
The migration figures were compiled by Homes for the North, a new campaign group made up of 19 housing associations which provide homes to a million people.
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