The pie charts depict the proportions of various reasons explaining why people moved to or from the United Kingdom in 2007.
Overall, having a definite job was recorded to be the most common reason for immigration and emigration. Additionally, whereas formal study was considered to be significant for people to immigrate, for those who left the UK, looking for work was an important reason.
Regarding the reasons that shared the similar proportion in both sides, a definite job was the most dominant reason, which constituted 30% in immigration and 29% in emigration. Similarly, the percentages of people moving to or from the UK were relatively comparable, at 15% and 13% respectively. The other reasons category also witnessed a little change, making up 11% in immigration and 14% in emigration.
Concerning the remaining groups, although searching for employment and no reason stated only accounted for only small proportions of immigration, they made up a considerably larger share of emigration, at 22% and 18% respectively. However, the figures of formal study reason saw an opposite trend. It can be seen that the rate of people moving to the UK for formal study held the second highest rank in the immigration chart, with 26%. That figure was completely changed when it came to emigration, which was just 4%.