Mobile no more? The innovative use of administrative data linked to a census-based longitudinal study to investigate migration within Scotland
Mobile no more? The innovative use of administrative data linked to a census-based longitudinal study to investigate migration within Scotland
This paper builds upon existing scholarship on changing patterns and processes of internal migration, especially the surprising and potentially disconcerting recently documented trend towards falling internal migration intensities since the late 20th Century in many developed countries. The analysis utilises new research opportunities presented by the recent linking of administrative health data into the census-based Scottish Longitudinal Study (SLS). We find a modest recent decrease in aggregate rates of address changing within Scotland. This decline is partly driven by the population sub-groups that have been conventionally most mobile, especially over longer distances, becoming less migratory. This supports the notion of an evening out of some of the main socio-economic determinants of migration and validates calls for a greater emphasis on the drivers and consequences of population immobility within migration studies.
ESRC Centre for Population Change
Ernsten, Annemarie
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Feng, Zhixin
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Everington, Dawn
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30 April 2018
Ernsten, Annemarie
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Feng, Zhixin
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Everington, Dawn
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Ernsten, Annemarie, Feng, Zhixin and Everington, Dawn
(2018)
Mobile no more? The innovative use of administrative data linked to a census-based longitudinal study to investigate migration within Scotland
(Working Paper Series, 88)
University of Southampton.
ESRC Centre for Population Change
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This paper builds upon existing scholarship on changing patterns and processes of internal migration, especially the surprising and potentially disconcerting recently documented trend towards falling internal migration intensities since the late 20th Century in many developed countries. The analysis utilises new research opportunities presented by the recent linking of administrative health data into the census-based Scottish Longitudinal Study (SLS). We find a modest recent decrease in aggregate rates of address changing within Scotland. This decline is partly driven by the population sub-groups that have been conventionally most mobile, especially over longer distances, becoming less migratory. This supports the notion of an evening out of some of the main socio-economic determinants of migration and validates calls for a greater emphasis on the drivers and consequences of population immobility within migration studies.
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Published date: 30 April 2018
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