Do 79% of Swedish asylum seekers go on holiday to the country they fled from?
More or Less: behind the statistics
Saturday, 11 January 2025 - 9 minutes
The claim that 79% of asylum seekers in Sweden go on holiday in their home country has been repeated regularly on social media.
It’s used to argue that recent refugees are being disingenuous about the danger they face in the country they have fled from.
But when you look at the survey the claim is based on, you see the stat in a very different way.
We speak to Hjalmar Strid, who ran the survey for polling company Novus, and Tino Sanandaji from Bulletin, the online news site which published it.Presenter: Charlotte McDonald
Producer: Tom Colls
Production co-ordinator: Katie Morrison
Sound Mix: Neil Churchill
Editor: Richard Vadon
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