Finding data

The primary focus of this study were the consequences of out-migration on the community and the migration experiences of individuals. The main objectives included:

to analyse out-migration data from the 1991 Census
to describe and evaluate the characteristics of out-migration, the destinations involved, the decision-making processes at work, the consequences for rural communities and the experiences of individual outmigrants
to identify important issues requiring innovative rural policy-making

The data relates to 212 individual out-migrants from the North Lewis and Roxburgh areas of Scotland, all resident elsewhere in the UK. Information includes:

demographic and socio-economic characteristics at time of contact and when migrated
lifetime mobility flows and decision-making influences
attitudinal information about out-migration in general
current place of residence and donor area.

UKDA Study Number:

4499

Spatial Coverage:

Scotland

Data Creator:

A. Stockdale (University of Aberdeen)

Time Period:

Cross-sectional (one-time) study, Year: 2000

Data Publisher:

UK Data Archive, University of Essex

Place of Publication:

Essex, UK

Documentation:

Machine-readable codebooks in Adobe PDF format.

File Information

File Descriptions:

household.por and outmigs.por are SPSS portable files.
a4499qab.pdf is the portable document file.
*.txt are citation and readme ASCII text files.

File Storage :

Written to CD-ROM 24/5/02

Format:

SPSS portable file.

Data Access:

Users must register before receiving a copy of data files.
Edinburgh University users may contact the Data Library for access.

Accessibility menu