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The pie chart below shows the main reasons why people moved to a new country, according to a survey.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
Write at least 150 words.
| Category | Reason |
|---|---|
| Work | 44% |
| Study | 18% |
| Family | 24% |
| Safety | 9% |
| Lifestyle | 5% |
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The pie chart shows the main reasons why people moved to a new country, according to a survey.
Overall, work was the leading reason by a wide margin, and economic and family motives accounted for the great majority of moves. Safety and lifestyle were the least common reasons.
The largest group of respondents, 44%, said they had migrated for work, which was nearly twice the proportion who moved for family reasons, at 24%. Together, work and family accounted for 68% of the total, more than two-thirds of all respondents.
The remaining three reasons were considerably less common. Study was the third most frequent reason, with 18% of the answers, three-quarters of the figure for family. Safety was cited by only 9% of people, and lifestyle was the least popular reason, at just 5%.
Notably, work alone was chosen by more people than study, safety and lifestyle combined, which together totalled 32%. In other words, the answers were distributed very unevenly across the five categories, with the top two reasons alone covering more than two-thirds of the sample.
| Phrase | Meaning |
|---|---|
| reason for migrating | why people move abroad |
| the most common | chosen by the most |
| respondents | people answering |
| account for | make up |
| over two-thirds | more than 67% |
| the smallest proportion | the lowest share |
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