This paper seeks to contribute to the ongoing revitalisation of the counterurbanisation research within population geography by nuancing counterurban migration beyond the rural–urban dichotomy, including all moves downwards in the urban hierarchy. The focus is to explore counterurban migration patterns among families with children leaving Swedish metropolitan areas, and whether some groups of skilled professions are more likely to make a counterurban move than others. Using register data on all families moving out from metropolitan areas in Sweden during the period 2003–2013, we found a small but steady outflow of families, mainly to medium-sized or small towns. The highly educated are overrepresented among these families, thus providing potential for an inflow of competence to the receiving areas. Contrary to expected, the assumed flexibility in time and space among knowledge sector professionals does not seem to enable them more than others to pursue counterurban moves. Instead, public sector professionals characterise families making a counterurban move to all destination regions, while men with a profession within arts and crafts to a higher extent move with their family to more rural areas.

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哪些家庭是从大城市迁出的？瑞典的反城市移民和职业

本文旨在通过细微差别超越城乡二分法的逆城市迁移，包括城市层次结构中的所有向下移动，为人口地理学中逆城市化研究的持续振兴做出贡献。重点是探索离开瑞典大都市地区的有孩子的家庭的反城市迁移模式，以及某些技术职业群体是否比其他人更有可能进行反城市迁移。使用 2003 年至 2013 年期间从瑞典大都市地区迁出的所有家庭的登记数据，我们发现家庭外流数量虽小但稳定，主要流向中型或小城镇。在这些家庭中，受过高等教育的人数过多，从而提供了能力流入接收地区的潜力。与预期相反，知识部门专业人员在时间和空间上假定的灵活性似乎并不能使他们比其他人更能追求反城市迁移。取而代之的是，公共部门的专业人士将家庭描述为向所有目的地地区迁移，而从事艺术和手工艺行业的男性则更多地与家人一起迁移到更多的农村地区。