Title:	The Indirect Estimation of Migration
Authors:	Andrei Rogers Jani Little James Raymer KENNETH C. LAND
Keywords:	Inadequate, and Missing Data
Issue Date:	2010
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	This book presents the culmination of our collaborative research, going back over 15 years (Rogers & Little, 1994), and for one of us, even longer (Rogers, 1967, 1973). It addresses a difficult, yet necessary, area of demographic research: what to do in data situations characterized by irregular, inadequate, or missing data. A common solution within the demographic community has been what is generally referred to as “indirect estimation”. In our work the focus has been on the indirect estimation of migration, and our use of the term “indirect” follows the description given in the 1983 United Nations manual, which defined it as “techniques suited for analysis of incomplete or defective demographic data” (United Nations, 1983, p. 1). We wrote this book with a goal to make it accessible to a reader familiar with introductory statistical modeling, at the level of regression and categorical data analysis using log – linear models. It is primarily intended to serve as a reference work for demographers, sociologists, geographers, economists, and regional planners. Space and time limitations have led us to omit topics that some may feel should have been included. In defense, we would argue that our major focus has been on the two principal models of structures in the indirect estimation of migration: model schedules of age patterns and log-linear models of spatial patterns. And our application of this focus has been on three principal aspects of indirect estimation: smoothing, imposing (repairing), and inferring data. Those who are somewhat familiar with the generally accepted methods used in the indirect estimation of fertility and mortality should be able to identify possible extensions of such methods to the case of migration, adopting the fundamental directions outlined by us in Chapters 4, 5, and 6.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/50495
ISBN:	978-90-481-8915-1
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

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