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Internal Migration in the United Kingdom: Analysis of an Estimated Inter-District Time Series, 2001–2011

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This paper examines how internal migration between local authority districts within the United Kingdom has evolved during the first decade of the twenty-first century. Based on estimates derived from data assembled from a range of sources, the paper demonstrates the extent of decline in the longstanding pattern of net migration from urban to rural regions, driven to a large extent by the fall in the intensity of migration from urban to rural areas, and the reversal of the south to north net migration pattern due to the increase in moves from urban north to urban south.

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Nik Lomax is grateful for funding from the Economic and Social Research Council for his CASE studentship in partnership with the Office for National Statistics. We are grateful to staff in each of the national statistical agencies for providing data upon which the migration estimates are based.

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    Nik Lomax, John Stillwell, Paul Norman & Phil Rees

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Lomax, N., Stillwell, J., Norman, P. et al. Internal Migration in the United Kingdom: Analysis of an Estimated Inter-District Time Series, 2001–2011. Appl. Spatial Analysis 7, 25–45 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12061-013-9098-3

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