Transcript Analysing the 2001 inter-district migration matrix

Analysing the 2001 inter-district
migration matrix
Robin Flowerdew and Zhiqiang Feng
School of Geography & Geosciences
University of St Andrews
British Society for Population Studies
Canterbury, September 2005
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Introduction and context
The data
Analytical methods
Migration flows
Explanatory variables
Conclusions
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Introduction and context
• Scottish Enterprise project ‘Describing and
explaining migration flows to and from
Scotland’ (with Paul Boyle, Tony
Champion, Oliver Duke-Williams, Anne
Green, Jianhui Jin, David Owen, Phil Rees,
Dan Vickers)
• Data for Scotland could be seen in terms of
the GB experience
Triangulation
• Wider project included other data sets,
including ordinary census data, SARs,
medical registration data, Labour Force
Survey
• Helpful to compare findings from different
data sets
2 The data
• 2001 census