[2] She also represented the UK on the United Nations Commission on Population and Development.
[2] At the General Register Office, Thompson's main statistical concerns involved birth rates and immigration.
[2] In the late 1970s, when Labour politician Richard Crossman's diaries were published posthumously, she was forced to sue the publisher for libel, for including claims that she was a member of a "Fascist nest" who had falsified statistics about ethnic minorities in Britain.
[1][2] Thompson also served a term as president of the British Society for Population Studies.
She was awarded the CBE on her retirement, "in recognition of her contributions both to the public service and to population studies".