Summary information

Study title

Migration Decisions of Individuals at Retirement, 1976

Creator

Rough, B., University of Salford, Department of Geography

Law, C., University of Salford, Department of Geography

Warnes, A. M., King's College London, Department of Geography

Study number / PID

1748 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-1748-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

The purpose of this research was to study the influences upon the volume and geographical patterns of retirement migration. The research supplemented earlier studies by the authors and Valerie Karn (who had investigated the circumstances of migrants in Clacton and Bexhill), from which the basic characteristics of retired migrants were known: they were overwhelmingly owner-occupiers before and after the move, largely in social class II and III, from white collar occupations with medium to high incomes, and from small households. Married couples without others were much over-represented.

Main Topics:

This survey focuses on housing, personal and family circumstances, residential and migration histories to specify further distinctive characters of movers

RetirementElderlyHousing

AGEATTITUDESBEDROOMSCHILDHOODCHILDRENCOMMUNITY BEHAVIOURCOMMUTINGDECISION MAKINGEARLY RETIREMENTEDUCATIONAL BACKGROUNDELDERLYEMPLOYMENT

Data collection period

01/04/1976 - 01/11/1976

Country

England and Wales

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study

Analysis unit

Families/households

Groups

National

Elderly

Migrants

Retired people

Universe

(1) Movers: Those aged 60 years or more living more than 40 km from their homes when in full-time permanent occupation or (rarely) while of pre-statutory retirement age. Units of survey were households. (2) Non-movers: 100 interviews in selected districts of Greater London and Greater Manchester. Matched with the sample of movers for pre-retirement housing tenure, house size and socio-economic status

Sampling procedure

(1) Movers: Two stage areally stratified random, viz. random samples of households in selected enumeration districts in two regions, the latter selected and weighted to represent the original areas of all retirement migrants.
(2) Non-movers: Two stage areally stratified quota, viz. random samples with some point sampling in selected enumeration districts in Manchester and London. Quotas on pre-retirement housing tenure, house- size and socio-economic status were determined by the characteristics of the movers.

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview

Grant number

HR3717

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

1982

Terms of data access

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Law, C. and Warnes, A. (1982) 'The destination decision in retirement migration' , London: Wiley.
Warnes, A. and Law, C. (1980) 'The characteristics of retired migrant' , London: Wiley.
Warnes, A. and Law, C. (1976) 'The changing geography of the elderly in England and Wales', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
Warnes, A. (1981) Migration after retirement: : the implications for health and mental health services, [Discussion paper].London: Dept. of Geography, Kings College.
Warnes, A. (1981) 'Towards a geographical contribution to gerontology', Progress in Human Geography
Warnes, A. and Law, C. (1981) 'Planning and retirement migration'