MIGRATION AND WORKPLACE STATISTICS

• The Special Migration Statistics provide data on the flow of migrants between origins and destinations in the year before the Census, while the Special Workplace Statistics record the journeys to work in Great Britain, from both the 1991 and 1981 Censuses.

• Interaction statistics from the 1991 Census are available on-line: see http://census.ac.uk/.

• To register for access, contact The Census Dissemination Unit.

• Examples of use: see Rees P and Duke-Williams O (1995) The story of the British Special Migration Statistics. Scottish Geographical Magazine, 111, 1, 13-26, and Rees P and Duke-Williams O (1997) Methods for estimating missing data on migrants in the 1991 Census. International Journal of Population Geography, 3, 4, 323-368.

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