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This survey was carried out as part of a study entitled 'Migration, residential preferences and the changing environment of cities'. This project, one of 23 funded by the ESRC Cities Programme sought to improve understanding of the factors which bind, attract and repel residents in the larger cities and their inner areas. The project approached this task from the perspective of migration and residential mobility, focusing on overall population trends and the role of migration in these, social differences in the migration balances of Britain's largest conurbations, and the factors influencing people's migration behaviour. The research set itself five more specific objectives, as follows: i) to review the existing literature on migration behaviour and residential preferences relating to the city; ii) to identify the cities and parts of cities which in the recent past have proved more able to attract and hold on to residents and examine the characteristics that distinguish these places; iii) to investigate the extent to which different population groups are participating in these residential movements and seek out the reasons behind these differences; iv) to evaluate the implications of these findings for policy development; and v) to contribute to the theoretical literature on urban change. The work was carried out as a set of eight sub-projects, which included studies in collaboration with the Housing Corporation, Newcastle City Council and colleagues at Newcastle University. The survey of Tyneside residents was one of these sub-projects.
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The primary purpose of this survey was to obtain better intelligence about the causes of recent population movements affecting Newcastle and the surrounding region. The survey was undertaken by household questionnaire, which asked about how long people have lived at their present address, about the place they had moved from and the reason for their move, about their current intentions of moving and about basic demographic characteristics. The principal focus of the survey was on people living in and around Newcastle that have moved home within the last five years or so, i.e. since the start of 1995. It was targeted primarily at households of family-raising age or older moving into owner occupied housing. The survey was focused on ten, fairly compact localities. Half are located within the City boundary, four of them containing significant amounts of relatively new housing (Little Benton, Gosforth, Blakelaw/Kingston Park, Westerhope) and one picked as representative of a more established family area (Jesmond). The five in the surrounding region were selected on the basis of containing much new housing and being located in an area that has traditionally been popular among those moving out of Newcastle (Gateshead/Ryton, Prudhoe, Ponteland/Darras Hall, West Allotment, Cramlington).
One-stage stratified or systematic random sample
Purposive selection/case studies
for households within case study area; for neighbourhoods.; Neighbourhoods were purposively selected as case studies, and a one-stage stratified sample was drawn for households within the case study area.
Self-completion
Questionnaire delivered by hand and collected, with a postback option.
