Understanding the 2001 UK census migration and commuting data: The effect of small cell adjustment and problems of comparison with 1991

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 425-445

  Stillwell, John ^a   Duke Williams, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Census counts; Commuting; Destinations; Interaction; Migration; Origins; Small cell adjustment

Indexed keywords

EID: 34147216940     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2006.00458.x     Document Type: Article

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