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The School Census is the only regularly updated dataset covering almost all of the population of a specific age, which records changes of address along with ethnicity and some family economic circumstances. It can be used to measure internal and international family migration as shown in this report.
The School Census is suited to identify and quantify new local migration streams between censuses, successfully identifying the local distribution of Eastern European immigration in the decade since 2000.
The measures do not provide a complete measure of migration, either internally or internationally. The exclusion of those outside the state school system means that internal migration is under‐estimated, and international migration is approximately measured.
The advantages of the School Census are its frequent updates, its fine geographical information, and its indicators of ethnicity and low family income, which powerfully complement other sources.
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This article focuses on migration and is the first to use the School Census to create indicators of international and national migration for each local authority in England
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Simpson, L., Marquis, N. & Jivraj, S. International and internal migration measured from the School Census in England. Popul Trends 140, 106–124 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1057/pt.2010.14
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/pt.2010.14