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Joint Reporting by Government Departments of Population and Migration Figures

The Office for National Statistics and the Home Office have today simultaneously published a range of demographic data.
The initiative represents the first step towards a new 'coherent reporting' programme for demographic statistics, one of the key recommendations of the 2006 Interdepartmental Task Force on Migration Statistics. The new initative aims to ensure that related demographic data from different departments are presented in a co-ordinated manner on a limited number of dates throughout the year.

Information and data published today by the Office for National Statistics include:

  • A public consultation on improved coherence in the reporting of population and migration statistics. This will help shape the way these statistics are reported in future.
  • A report on progress made towards the recommendation from the 2006 interdepartmental task force on migration statistics.
  • 2007 Local Authority Population Case studies: Final report bringing together the recommendations of four previosuly published individual local authority case studies.
  • Updates to ward population estimates, and, for the first time, population estimates for National Parks and Parliamentary Constituencies (experimental statistics)
  • Quarterly population estimates for December 2007 (experimental statistics)
  • Internal migration movements between Wales and the rest of the UK for the year ending June 2007.

Information and data published today by the Home Office include:

  • Asylum Statistics for the fourth quarter of 2007
  • The Accession Monitoring Report to the end of 2007
  • Accession statistics relating to Bulgaria and Romania.
    (only figures for Asylum Seekers are published at a Wales level)

Key Results

  • The number of people moving into Wales from the rest of the UK in the twelve months ending June 2007 was around 56,500. The number of people moving from Wales to the rest of the UK was around 49,250. This gives a net inward migration of around 7,300 for the period mid-2006 to mid-2007 (compared to 6,600 in the previous 12 months).
  • In mid-2005, the Welsh National Park with the highest estimated population was the Brecon Beacons (around 32,900).  The population of the Snowdonia National Park was over 25,700, and the population of the Pembrokeshire National Park was nearly 22,400.

Contact

Tel: 029 2080 1341
E-mail: stats.popcensus@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Next update

To be confirmed on Due Out Soon page