A new migration classification for local authority districts in Britain

Working Paper of the University of Leeds, School of Geography

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1-135

  Dennett, Adam ^a   Stillwell, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

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CLASSIFICATION; INTERNAL MIGRATION; RESEARCH; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

UNITED KINGDOM;

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