Improvements in Migration Statistics
Last Updated: August 2011
Since the early 2000s, and especially since Eastern European countries joined the EU in May 2004, migration has played a larger part in Scotland's demographic change than in the previous decade. So it has become more important to have high quality statistics on migration and the population, for policy development and for planning and providing public services. National Records of Scotland (NRS) is part of an inter-departmental effort, led by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), to improve the estimates of migration and migrant populations in the United Kingdom, both nationally and at a local level. Current work and progress from the Improvements to Migration and Population Statistics (IMPS) cross-government programme can be found through the ONS website.