Can anyone even remember the last time the Office for National Statistics actually made headlines for something it had done, rather than something it had said? Well, that's what happened today when immigration minister, Phil Woolas, accused it of "playing politics" and of being "at best, naive or, at worst, sinister".
He questioned the august body's motives in publishing figures last week that showed one in nine UK residents was born abroad.
Well, we've got the data all the fuss was about for you. There's two spreadsheets here: one showing foreign-born people in employment and one showing residents in the UK and where they came from — find out what the number one country of birth is for people living here.
DATA: UK population by nationality
DATA: workers in the UK by nationality and country of birth
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