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Chapter 6. Migration2000 FSM Census of Chuuk StateTable 6.8: Movers by Place of Previous Residence, Chuuk State: 1994 and 20001994 2000Horizontal percentHorizontal percentVertical Other FSM Else- Vertical Other FSM Else-Duration of residence Total Percent Percent Chuuk states In Asia where Number percent Percent Chuuk states In Asia whereTotal 5,964 100.0 100.0 80.6 3.9 7.9 7.6 5,317 100.0 100.0 90.5 2.9 0.8 5.8Less than 6 months 770 12.9 100.0 82.7 5.6 2.3 9.4 360 6.8 100.0 86.4 0.8 0.3 12.56 months to 1 year 409 6.9 100.0 78.7 1.2 4.6 15.4 431 8.1 100.0 73.3 10.0 1.9 14.81 to 2 years 418 7.0 100.0 72.2 7.2 4.8 15.8 417 7.8 100.0 80.1 3.1 0.5 16.32 to 5 years 540 9.1 100.0 73.7 7.6 4.8 13.9 770 14.5 100.0 88.3 2.9 1.2 7.75 years or more 3,827 64.2 100.0 82.3 3.0 10.1 4.6 3,339 62.8 100.0 94.9 2.1 0.7 2.2Source: 1994 FSM Census, Table P18; 2000 FSM 2000 FSM Census, Table P2-7.Note: Duration of residence refers to continuous residence at the municipality of usual residence.Place of Residence Five Years Prior to the CensusMore specific time-bound migration information was collected based on usual residence exactly five years before thecensuses. Tables 6.9 to 6.13 present this information, necessarily excluding persons less than 5 years old during therespective censuses. For many purposes, including estimating migration levels for population projections, this kind ofinformation is very useful.Table 6.9 can be interpreted in a similar way to Table 6.3, which dealt with lifetime migration. However, since theperiod covered was shorter the number of migrants is reduced. The number of immigrants from outside Chuuk haddeclined slightly from 571 for period 1989 to 1994) to 510 (for period 1995 to 2000). Likewise, internal migrants --those migrants between Lagoon and Outer Islands -- declined from 790 to 630 for the respective periods. The Lagoonis the destination of migrants from both within and outside Chuuk. For example, for period 1995 to 2000, 418 (66percent) of the internal migrants and 473 (93 percent) of the immigrants moved to the Lagoon.Table 6.9: Residence 5 Years Ago by Usual Residence for Persons Aged 5 Years and Over, Chuuk State: 1994 and 20001994 2000Residence 5 years ago Total Lagoon Outer Islands Total Lagoon Outer IslandsTotal 44,879 34,978 9,901 46,248 34,886 11,362Chuuk 44,308 34,478 9,830 45,738 34,413 11,325Lagoon 34,096 33,892 204 34,207 33,995 212Outer Islands 10,212 586 9,626 11,531 418 11,113Outside Chuuk 571 500 71 510 473 37Other FSM states 134 120 14 106 93 13USA 294 250 44 327 314 13Asia 97 96 1 22 21 1Elsewhere 46 34 12 55 45 10Source: 1994 FSM Census, Table P20; 2000 FSM Census, Table P2-8Table 6.10 summarizes the internal migration presented in Table 6.9 and compares internal migration rates betweenthe Chuuk Lagoon and the Outer Islands in between periods 1989 to 1994 and periods 1995 to 2000. The level ofmigration had decline between the two periods but the pattern is somewhat the same. A comparison of annualmigration rates per 1,000 persons for both census years indicated that the Chuuk Lagoon received more in-migrantsthan out-migrants and that the reverse was true for the Outer Islands. An advantage of specific 5-year migration isthat it permits the calculation of an annual migration rate, which measures the impact that migration has onpopulation growth. Although not as significant as census year 1994 (migration rate of about 8 percent), the impactwas greatest in the Outer Islands, where annual net out-migration accounted for about 4 per thousand of thepopulation. In other words, between 1995 and 2000, 4 out of every thousand people out-migrated to the Lagoonarea. On the other hand, the Lagoon is gaining 1 person per thousand annually in the same period.Table 6.10. Annual Internal Migration Rate by Region, Chuuk State: 1994 and 20001989 to 1994 1995 to 2000Non- In- Out- Net- Annual migration Non- In- Out- Net- Annual migrationRegion movers migrants migrants migrants rate (%) movers migrants migrants migrants rate (%)TotalLagoon 33,892 586 204 382 2.2 33,995 418 215 203 1.2Outer Islands 9,626 204 586 (382) (7.6) 11,113 215 418 (203) (3.6)MalesLagoon 17,308 280 104 176 2.0 11,414 186 100 86 1.5Outer Islands 4,846 104 280 (176) (7.0) 5,636 103 186 (83) (2.9)FemalesLagoon 16,584 306 100 206 2.5 22,581 232 112 120 1.1Outer Islands 4,780 100 306 (206) (8.3) 5,477 112 232 (120) (4.2)Source: 1994 FSM Census, Table P20 & unpublished; 2000 FSM Census, Table P2-8Note: Annual migration rate is defined as (logP2/P1)/N, where P2 is the sum of non-movers and in-migrants, P1 is the sum of non-movers and out-migrants, and N isthe number of years in the defined period.54 Chuuk Branch Statistics Office, Division of Statistics, FSM Department of Economic Affairs