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Originally Posted by brisavoine
Typical Londoner's arguement. If the figures don't show London number one, then it's necessarily that the figures are wrong. How convenient.
As Minato Ku already pointed out, if British censuses underestimate the actual number of immigrants, the same is to be expected with French censuses. So I'm afraid your complaint is a bit meaningless here. At the end of the day, official census figures, underestimated on both sides of the Channel, show there are more people from Eastern and Southeastern Asia in Paris than in London.
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Haha... let's number crunch shall we? Your official data for the Ile de France shows this:
http://www.insee.fr/fr/recensement/n...s-immigres.xls
- 44,000 Chinese
- 37,000 Vietnamese
- 34,000 Cambodians
- 16,000 Laotians
Total = 131,000
You included the 77,000 so called "other Asians" to bring the grand total to 208,000 but there is no indication that these other Asians hail from E/SE Asia. Indeed I suspect most are fromt he Middle East. "Other Asians" is defined merely as "Pays d'Asie autres que Cambodge, Chine, Inde, Laos, Liban, Sri Lanka, Turquie et Viêt-Nam" (ie countries aside from China, India, Laos, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Turkey, and Vietnam).
Now from the older (2005) estimates from the UK census I get this:
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBas...asp?vlnk=14238
- 107,100 Chinese or other ethnic group: Chinese
- 140,100 Chinese or other ethnic group: Other
Total = 247,200
Now I can accept that the "other" on the UK census, though said to be mainly Filipinos and other E/SE Asians, may not be entirely of far eastern origin. But then neither are the 77,000 that you so conveniently counted in with your stats. the only strictly comparable figures we have are 44,000 Chinese in the Ile de France and 107,000 in London.
The Ile de France is of course, a much larger region than London, almost 8 times larger geographically, and about 50% larger by population. To keep comparison strictly fair we should take the Chinese population per ~100,000 population in each:
- Greater London = 1427
- Greater Paris = 383
So per 100,000 there are almost 4 times as many Chinese in London.
If we assume that all in the "other" groups are E/SE Asians (unlikely but it's your choice...) then we get this:
- Greater London = 3296
- Greater Paris = 1809
So based purely on official census data, and completely disregarding figures from the Philippine Embassy in London, how can you sustain your position that there are more E/SE Asians in Paris than London?