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Migration: London Residents

Answer

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 5 December 2007:"As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your question asking how many and what percentage of London residents (a) with British citizenship and (b) without British citizenship migrated to (i) other regions of the UK and (ii) outside the UK in each of the last 10 years. (169671)""The mid-year population estimates of people living in London are not available broken down by citizenship over the last ten years. Also, data are not available that show migration by citizenship within and between the regions of the UK.""However, data are available that show estimates of emigration by British and non-British citizens from Greater London to areas outside the UK in each of the last ten years (Table 1). These estimates are based on the International Passenger Survey (IPS) and are also shown as a percentage of each mid-year population estimate for Greater London.""The IPS is a sample survey and, like all survey sources, is subject to sampling and non-sampling error."

Table 1: population and international migration time series 1997-2006—people emigrating from London¹ by citizenship and as percentage of the mid-year population estimates
Government Office Region
	MYE²	Emigrants³,4
	London	All citizenships	British	Non-British
	All persons	Estimate (Thousand)	Percentage of MYE	Estimate (Thousand)	Percentage of MYE	Estimate (Thousand)	Percentage of MYE
London¹
1997	7,015	70	1.0	25	0.4	45	0.6
1998	7,065	68	1.0	22	0.3	46	0.7
1999	7,154	84	1.2	20	0.3	63	0.9
2000	7,237	84	1.2	30	0.4	55	0.8
2001	7,322	78	1.1	25	0.3	53	0.7
2002	7,362	89	1.2	27	0.4	62	0.8
2003	7,364	88	1.2	27	0.4	61	0.8
2004	7,389	79	1.1	33	0.4	46	0.6
2005	7,456	87	1.2	27	0.4	60	0.8
2006	7,512	111	1.5	31	0.4	79	1.1
¹ The Government Office Region of London definition has been used, i.e. Greater London.
² MYE are the revised mid year population estimates and are rounded to the nearest thousand. Emigration data are for calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
³ Emigrants are the International Passenger Survey estimates for calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
4 The international migration estimates have been revised using a consistent methodology based primarily on the Labour Force Survey (LFS) to allocate migration to the constituent countries of the UK, and to Government Office Regions within England.
Notes:
1. Figures have been rounded independently and may not add to totals.
2. Percentages have been calculated on unrounded data.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

169671; 468 c1352-4W

Session

2007-08

Subjects

Greater London Migration

Link

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