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Focus on People and Migration

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Chapter 1 provides an overview of the population of the UK and its four constituent countries. Such an overview is a useful starting point but a huge amount of diversity exists between different regions and local areas within the UK.

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Notes and References

  1. Population estimates for government office regions, local authorities and unitary authorities in England, and unitary authorities in Wales, can be found at: www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Product.asp?vlnk=601&More=N

  2. Population estimates for Scotland can be accessed at: www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/library/index.html

  3. Population estimates for Northern Ireland are available from: www.nisra.gov.uk/statistics/financeandpersonnel/DMB/datavault.html

  4. All UK estimates refer to the population as at 30 June of the year specified.

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  5. Census data from Theme Tables T02 (England and Wales), T17 (Scotland) and T43 (Northern Ireland).

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  21. The employment rate refers to the percentage of working-age people who are employed. All employment and unemployment rates in this section are from the Annual Population Survey and cover the period January to December 2004.

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  22. The working-age population consists of men aged 16 to 64 years and women aged 16 to 59 years.

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  23. The unemployment rate is the percentage of economically active people aged 16+ who are unemployed, using the International Labour Organisation (ILO) measure of unemployment.

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  24. Data for the Isles of Scilly are unavailable. Data for local districts in Northern Ireland are not available in order to protect respondent confidentiality.

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  25. Unemployment rates are shown by county and unitary authority for England and Wales as counts of unemployed people are very small in some local authorities within counties and would provide estimates with a low level of reliability.

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  31. The data shown here come from the Annual Business Inquiry 2003 and refer to districts within Great Britain only.

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  33. Please see appendix for a description of different types of housing completion.

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  35. National Assembly for Wales: www.wales.gov.uk/ keypubstatisticsforwales/content/publication/housing/2004/sb85-2004/sb85-2004.htm

  36. Scottish Executive: www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00363-06.asp

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  1. Kate Shaw
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  2. Julie Jefferies
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Roma Chappell

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Shaw, K., Jefferies, J. (2005). Where people live. In: Chappell, R. (eds) Focus on People and Migration. Focus On. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-75096-2_2

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