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Cross‐national comparison of internal migration: issues and measures
Author(s) -
Bell M.,
Blake M.,
Boyle P.,
DukeWilliams O.,
Rees P.,
Stillwell J.,
Hugo G.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of the royal statistical society: series a (statistics in society)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.103
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1467-985X
pISSN - 0964-1998
DOI - 10.1111/1467-985x.t01-1-00247
Subject(s) - internal migration , computer science , statistics , econometrics , mathematics , economics , developing country , economic growth
Summary. Our objectives are to identify the issues that researchers encounter when measuring internal migration in different countries and to propose key indicators that analysts can use to compare internal migration at the ‘national’ level. We establish the benefits to be gained by a rigorous approach to cross‐national comparisons of internal migration and discuss issues that affect such comparisons. We then distinguish four dimensions of internal migration on which countries can be compared and, for each dimension, identify a series of summary measures. We illustrate the issues and measures proposed by comparing migration in Australia and Great Britain.