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Internal Migration in Australia & Britain: Levels and Trends in an Age-Period-Cohort Framework

Summary
This collaborative project will compare interregional migration in Australia and Britain between 1976 and 1996. The levels of mobility, patterns and causes of movement differ markedly between the two countries. This study will develop internationally comparable measures of migration, use new visualization techniques to examine the effect of three key variables - age, time period and year of birth - on migration behaviour, and explore links between migration and regional labour and housing markets. The results will aid understanding of the causes and consequences of internal migration in Australia and internationally, and improve the basis for sub-national population forecasting.
Funding: Australian Research Council
Participants: Chief Investigators:
Dr Martin Bell (University of Adelaide)
Professor Graeme Hugo (University of Adelaide)
Professor Philip Rees (University of Leeds)

Research Team:
Dr John Stillwell
Dr Paul Boyle
Mr Marcus Blake
Mr Oliver Duke-Williams
Completion date: Jan 2000
Publications: The UK Internal Migration Project Web Site (restricted access)
Creating a Temporally Consistent Spatial Framework for the Analysis of Inter-Regional Migration in Australia (updated Feb 2000)
Draft GeoComputation '99 Paper (updated Jan 99)
Draft Aus&UK APC documentation (updated Jun 99: 1.5Mb PDF)
Working Examples: Some experiments with cartograms (updated Feb 2000)

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