Trying to find up-to-date statistics is rarely straightforward, particularly when the data you're looking for involves protected characteristics like age, race, disability, sexual orientation, and so on. There is usually a baffling array of sources to navigate, all with varying degrees of reliability, assertions of the ‘latest’ data backed up with reports carried out 10 years ago, dead-end links on ‘official’ websites, and too many unnecessarily complicated charts and tables. In some cases, the data eventually materialises, albeit obscurely presented or hidden behind misleading messaging; but in others, no amount of Google wizardry or FOI (freedom of information) requests will answer your questions: the data simply doesn't exist.
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