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Creating Spatially Compatible Flow Datasets from Three British Censuses

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  • Zhiqiang Feng

    (Department of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK)

  • Paul Boyle

    (Department of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK)

Abstract

This paper describes a novel method for re-estimating the migration and commuting data collected in the 1981 and 1991 Censuses for the geographical units used in the 2001 Census in the UK. The estimated flow data are provided as origin-destination flow matrices for wards in England and Wales and pseudo-postcode sectors in Scotland. Altogether, there were about 10,000 zones in 1981, 1991 and 2001, providing huge but sparsely populated matrices of 10,000 by 10,000 cells. Thanks to the boundary changes during inter-censal periods, virtually no work has attempted to compare local level migration and commuting flows in the two decades, 1981-91 and 1991-2001. The re-estimated spatially consistent interaction flows described here provide an opportunity for such comparisons to be made and we use migration change in England and commuting change in Birmingham to demonstrate the value of these new data.

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  • Zhiqiang Feng & Paul Boyle, 2013. "Creating Spatially Compatible Flow Datasets from Three British Censuses," International Journal of Technology Diffusion (IJTD), IGI Global, vol. 4(3), pages 38-56, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jtd000:v:4:y:2013:i:3:p:38-56
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