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Population, Migration and Commuting Patterns in a Changing City

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This chapter focuses on the evolution of population trends and patterns of spatial mobility through commuting and migration. Industrial change and wider economic and social trends have re-worked Coventry’s relationship with the surrounding area and created new spatial interdependencies. Coventry’s story has not been one of precipitous population decline. Instead, it is one of adjusting relationships to economic activities within the city and beyond.

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    http://www.coventry.gov.uk/info/195/facts_about_coventry/2435/population_and_demographics/5.

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    Using the standard threshold definition of TTWAs.

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    In the employment flows data the Office for National Statistics….

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    Figures from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, 2018 (provisional figures). The data are available a https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/datasets/occupation2digitsocashetable2.

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Sissons, P. (2019). Population, Migration and Commuting Patterns in a Changing City. In: Begley, J., Donnelly, T., Jarvis, D., Sissons, P. (eds) Revival of a City. Palgrave Studies in Economic History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22822-4_7

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