The pie chart illustrates the rationales for immigration and emmigration in the UK by 2007
Overall, it is obvious that having definite job was the predomiant reason for people come to and leave the UK. While people immigrated to the UK for no reason was the smallest, the number of English leave their country was least because of formal study.
In terms of migration to the UK, there were 30% of immigrants came to the UK for definite job, while the figure for emigrants was less than 1%. Looking for formal study, it was the second largest reason why immigrants chose the UK whereas there was the least people left here for this reason (4%). The most uncommon reason for immigrating to the UK was no reason, which accounted for 6%. However, it was the third common cause of emigrating to the UK, made up 18%.
There were 15% of people who migrated to the UK for accompany/ join, while the percentage of those for looking for work and other were 12% and 11%, respectively. Just over one-fifth percentage of people who migrated from the UK wanted to find work and the figure for those who had other reasons and accompany/join problems were 14% and 13%.