This paper analyzes the results of the 1983 Korea National Migration Survey (KNMS), and utilizes these findings to formulate population settlement plans and regional development policies. The information gathered in this survey is very comprehensive in nature, intended to cover a wide range of socioeconomic, sociopsychological, demographic and cultural factors affecting population movements. The KNMS was planned as a single round survey of households selected from metropolitan Seoul and other urban and rural localities. Spatial movements may involve an absence ranging from a few hours to many years over a distance travelled which may range from a few meters to many kilometers. Classification of the migration streams defined in this report are: 1) nonmigrant, 2) lifetime migrant -- short term, 3) lifetime migrant -- long term, 4) migrant -- short term, 5) migrant -- long term, 6) lifetime return migrant -- long term, and 7) lifetime return migrant -- short term. The results show that: 1) 45% of those people residing within the Seoul Metropolitan Area(SMA) (31.5% of the total population) had been born there and 55% had migrated, 2) 52.9% of those urban dwellers were born there, and the remaining 47.1% had migrated there, and 3) of those 36.6% of the total population residing in rural areas, 90% had been born there. Of the total population, 57.6% had migrated in their life time; the SMA has the greatest proportion of migrants (63.7%), followed by that in the rural areas (49.3%). About 5% of the total population were return migrants who have left their place of birth but returned later. The proportion of migrants was greater for females (61.4%) than for males (53.8%). In addition, 72% of the total population have been living in their current place of residence for more than 10 years, 14.3% have for 5 to 9 years, and 7.9% for less than 1 year. The largest proportion of interregional lifetime migrants are found within the SMA, while the smallest proportion is observed within the rural area. Overall, rural to urban migration constitutes the main lifetime migration stream; a greater proportion of migrants are 25-44, have a primary school education, are married, and are economically active in the labor force.

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