At the beginning, I was thinking about the use of the data about: migrations- the country of origin by the year of arrival, spatial density of population and its structure (non-UK born and UK-born). I also wanted to see through data about religion ant ethnicity.
Spatial diveristy is not that interesting for me any more- in a large scale spatial diversity of non-UK bor citizens is the same as all the population. Interesting exprience could be to see how it looks inside the cities (because of the chain migration and the habit of living in communities), but theres no full data about that.
Scanning data, I found interesting that big part of imigrants are students, whose number is constantly growing. Next reason why people decide to move in UK, are job factors and then to accompany member of family. I thought that it tells something about who really are these thousands of "non-UK born citizens" coming every year.
I think that its interesting to focus on the inflows and the outflows of people (according to: ''long-term international migration 1991-2012 top ten countries''), the number of students (''main reasons for migration general data 1991-2012'' and "students- top ten EU/non-EU countries of domicile 2008-2013")
I'm going to use data from these sources:
OECD.StatExtracts- outflow
customizing database to get "Outflows by foreign population by nationality for United Kingdom through the years 1985-2011"
OECD.StatExtracts- inflow
customizing database to get "Inflows by foreign population by nationality for United Kingdom through the years 1985-2011"
Office for National Statistics
Passport held by the year of arrival in UK by country of birth (data by UK regions)
Office for National Statistics
2.04 LTIM Main Reason for Migration, 1991-2012 (Excel sheet 64Kb)
data about the students
Higher Education Statisctics Agency
pdfs from Non-UK domicile students topic:
Table 5 [xlsx 18 KB] Top EU countries of domicile (years 2008- 2012)
Table 6 [xlsx 18 KB] Top non-EU countries of domicile (years 2008- 2012)
Waluable sources of information
Long-Term International Migration Flows to and from UK from The Migration Observatory of the University of Oxford
Immigration, diversity and social cohesion from The Migration Observatory of the University of Oxford
International Migration Outlook (2013, 2010, 2008, 2006) from OECDiLibrary
short raports for better data understanding
