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Improved Methods for Population Statistics Revisions in 2007
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ONS is undertaking a substantial and long term programme of work to improve the population statistics it produces. The improved methods being implemented in 2007 relate to usually resident populations of each area and the international migration component of these figures.
The improvements address: the distribution of international in-migrants to regional and local authority level; the distribution of international out-migrants to local authority level; and the basis for making assumptions about the proportion of people who will not realise their original intentions at the time of travel, in terms of their expected length of stay in the destination country.
Methodological information for each of these improvements is available on this page, alongside: details of new geographical unit... View more information about this product.
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