Presentation by Celia Russell of UK Data Service as part of Open Data Manchester's What happened? The data behind the referendum event.

1. Making sense of Brexit?
Data resources for exploring
the referendum
Celia Russell
UK Data Service
@Jisc

2. European Social Survey

3. British Social Attitudes Survey

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)

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

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

11. The Shed, MMU, free, open to everyone