Outmigration from Rural Scotland, 2000

<P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P><br>The focus of this project was on the community consequences of out-migration and the migration experiences of individuals. The objectives of the research were:<br>
to analyse out-migration data from the 1991 Census;<br>
to test the value of the Register of Sasines for migration research;<br>
to describe and evaluate the characteristics of out-migration, the destinations involved, the decision-making processes at work, the consequences for rural communities and the experiences of individual outmigrants;<br>
to ascertain why, in an era of counter-urbanisation, out-migration of the young continues;<br>
to identify important issues requiring innovative rural policy-making.<br><B>Main Topics</B>:<BR><br>The data relates to 212 individual out-migrants from the North Lewis and Roxburgh areas of Scotland, all resident elsewhere in the UK. Information includes demographic and socio-economic characteristics at time of contact and when migrated, lifetime mobility flows and decision-making influences, attitudinal information about out-migration in general, current place of residence and donor area.