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Scotlands Census 2001 Statistics on Moving Households and Moving Groups

Table 5 Migrants aged 16-74 who were in wholly and partly moving households at the time of the Census : Breakdown by where lived one year earlier and economic activity at Census time

Migrant status
(percentage in each category)

Total

Full-time students

Not full-time students

All

In employment

Unemployed

Economically inactive

All

In employment

Unemployed

Economically inactive

Migrants in wholly moving households:

All migrants

241,642

18,672

6,422

1,214

11,036

222,970

145,440

14,366

63,164

Moved within the same Council area

66.8

73.7

78.1

68.2

71.8

66.3

65.9

64.1

67.6

No usual address one year ago

3.4

1.9

1.8

3.9

1.8

3.5

2.6

8.5

4.4

Moved between Scottish Council areas

18.3

12.9

13.5

16.1

12.2

18.8

20.5

14.4

15.6

Moved from the rest of the UK

7.4

3.8

2.7

4.4

4.5

7.7

7.3

8.8

8.4

Moved from outside the UK

4.1

7.6

3.9

7.4

9.8

3.8

3.6

4.2

4.0

Migrants in partly moving households:

All migrants

182,922

38,078

13,268

2,380

22,430

144,844

106,256

12,183

26,405

Moved within the same Council area

54.3

56.4

58.2

48.4

56.1

53.8

55.0

47.8

51.5

No usual address one year ago

10.4

5.0

4.2

5.7

5.4

11.9

9.3

16.0

20.2

Moved between Scottish Council areas

21.0

20.2

24.9

28.9

16.5

21.2

23.1

18.5

14.9

Moved from the rest of the UK

8.3

8.6

7.0

9.6

9.5

8.1

7.9

10.9

7.8

Moved from outside the UK

6.0

9.8

5.7

7.5

12.5

5.0

4.6

6.8

5.6

1. A person is defined as unemployed if he or she is not in employment, is available to start work in the next 2 weeks and has either looked for work in the last 4 weeks or is waiting to start a new job.
2. A person aged 16-74 who is neither in employment nor unemployed is classed as economically inactive.

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