The line graph depicts data on the three staying lengths of people who immigrated to the UK from 2000 to 2008, while the pie chart compares of the immigrants’ purposes to visit in 2008.
Overall, there was more stability in the all staying span in the UK, however, the number of immigrants wanted to staying up to 2 and 2 between 4 years increased noticeably over a eight-year period. It is worth mentioning that work and study were the main reasons of migration, whereas the opposite was true for Accompany & join family.
Regarding with the line graph, in 2000, the same number of people preferred to staying in more than 4 and up to 2 years, at 150 thousand, while there was 100 thousand lower number of the immigrants standing for between 2 and 4 years. Over the following years, while the number of immigrants staying less than 2 years and over 4 years remained its initial figure at first two years, there was a increase of 100 thousand in the former, before remained the same at 250 thousand for the rest of the given period. But the number of immigrants staying planning to live in more than 4 years remained uchanged throughout the whole period, while the figure for 2 to 4 years residing intend fluctuated slightly until half of the given period and then rose to 100 thousand immigrants.
As for the pie chart, the primary reason for migration to the UK was work in 2008, dominating with 38% – 6% lower than that of the second-ranked purpose, study. Accompanying or joining family contributed two times lower fraction of the total reasons compared to study purpose, at 16%, while 7% of the migrants did not state a reason for coming to the UK, which was similar with the other reasons.