Research project: Combining migration data in England and Wales

In this ESRC-funded project, James Raymer, Peter W Smith and Corrado Giulietti are developing a framework and statistical model for combining (incomplete) annual National Health Service registration data with (auxiliary) decennial census and annual Labour Force Survey data to predict age- and sex-specific interregional migration flows by ethnicity, economic activity and education from 1991 to 2007. More detailed and current information on migration flows are needed so that local governments have the means to improve their planning policies directed at supplying particular social services or at influencing levels of migration. Also, these flows are needed for understanding population redistribution of specific groups in relation to areas with, for example, high unemployment, high costs of living or high immigrant concentrations.