UK Immigration Statistics for Work-Related Migration

UK Home Office statistics on immigration for work purposes, replacing previous annual and quarterly publications. The release includes measures such as visa issues, admissions data, National Insurance number allocations, and survey estimates. Data is provided in XLS, HTML, and ODS formats under the OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trends in work visa issuance based on entry clearance data.
• Estimating migrant labour market entry based on National Insurance number allocations.
• Modeling long-term migration patterns based on work-related grants of settlement.
• Forecasting non-EU immigration for work using International Passenger Survey estimates.

Strengths

• Published by the authoritative Home Office organization.
• Consolidates multiple official measures into a single release.
• Available in multiple open formats including XLS and ODS.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to UK administrative sources.

Provenance

Source

Home Office

Collection Method

Administrative records and survey data, including visa issues, border admissions, National Insurance allocations, and the International Passenger Survey.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:39.521388; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom