The graph and chart below give information about migration to the UK. The graph below shows how long immigrants in the year 2000-2008 intended to stay in the UK. And the pie-chart shows reasons for migration in 2008. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The line chart illustrates the intended length of stay of immigrants to the UK between 2000 and 2008. The pie graph displays why they migrated to

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country in 2008.

Overall

, it can be seen that the number of people who spent less than 4 years increased

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time.

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, the popular reasons for migration to the United Kingdom were work and study. In 2000, just below 150 000 people stayed in the UK for less than 2 years.

Subsequently

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value increased to 250,000 in 2003 and remained the same until the end of the given period.

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trend was followed by the amount of men and women who spent 2 to 4 years, demonstrating an upward trend from 50,000 to nearly 100,000. Regarding other options, the number of immigrants who preferred

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trips was unchanged. Seven out of ten immigrants visited the UK for educational and career purposes in 2008,

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16% of them did it in order to join family.

In contrast

, only 7 per cent of the total decided to not state the reason for migration and absolutely the same percentage migrated with other intentions.