Andy Turner's Migration and Commuting Web Page @ School of Geography, University of Leeds

Introduction
- Information about Andy Turner's research interests in migration and commuting.
- Contents:
Topic Outline
- Migration and commuting are interesting movements especially when related to demographic and social change.
- Migration is the general process of moving from one place to another to live for a period of time. It is not necessarily human or even related to work, but I am most interested in human migration, and that which is to, from and within Britain, but I am increasingly interested in other nations and regions of the world. People migrate for various reasons. Internal migration in the UK is commonly related to peoples stages of life and changes of workplace, and is usually described in terms of a change in usual residence from one fixed address to another.
- With regard the contemporary UK, most people work in different places to where they spend most of the rest of their time. A significant proportion of all journeys are for work purposes and many of these involve tranporting workers to and from a workplace. The characteristics of this commuting traffic are complexly related to social and environmental factors. It can be argued that geography of commuting behaviour and commuting patterns is at one level related to the push and pull factors influencing human migration.
- What is the relationship between commuting and migration, and how does this vary geographically?
Data
- UK Data
  - Various primary and supporting data sets of the ESRC Centre for Interation Data Estimation and Research
    - Includes:
      - 1981, 1991, 2001 UK Human Population Census Special Migration Statistics;
      - 1981, 1991 UK Human Population Census Special Workplace Statistics, and the 2001 UK Human Population Census Special Travel Statistics)
  - The National Health Service Central Register (NSHCR)
  - The UK Electoral Roll
  - The UK Birth, Marriage and Death Register, of which a Freely Available Version is being developed for the period 1837-1983.
  - Employee information, travel surveys and data collected at the road side also provide some data on commuting...
My Research
- I continue to study this topic as part of the GENESIS and EUAsiaGrid projects.
- I first started to process and examine the SWS and SMS when working on the project: Commuting Patterns in Rural Areas:
  - This research involved investigating relationships between migration, commuting, transport and area classification data in England with a specific focus on rural commuting patterns. The work I did was to develop programs to aggregate SWS flow data from Enumeration Districts (EDs) to Wards and Local Authority Districts (LADs). I developed Various aggregated statistics of commuting flows, some were distance weighted, some were proportional, and some were broken down based on transport mode and socio-economic group.
- In 2000 I developed code to aggregate commuting flow data from EDs to constituencies. Danny Dorling supplied some constituency boundary data, a cartogram of constituencies, and results of the 1997 general election. I produced a set of cartogrammy constituency maps.
  - I had hoped to follow up this work by processing 2001 census data, aggregating flows from Output Areas (OAs), and investigating differences between 1991 and 2001 flows for aggregate regions.
References

Andy Turner's Migration and Commuting Web Page

Introduction

Topic Outline

Data

My Research

References

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