Population review: (3). Migration to from and within the United Kingdom

Monitoring migration trends and patterns is not a straightforward task given the absence of a compulsory United Kingdom-wide system for recording domestic changes of address. Nevertheless, data extracted from the available sources offer a valuable insight into the diverse and complex phenomenon of migration. This article examines international and internal migration phenomenon of migration in the 1980s and 1990s, and looks at the geographical impact of the two in combination on the population of the United Kingdom. This is the third article in the Population Review series. Earlier articles on: (1) Structure and distribution of the population and (2) Are we healthier? appeared in Population Trends issues no. 81 and no. 82 respectively.