Combining census and registration data to estimate detailed elderly migration flows in England and Wales

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

Volumn 170, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 891-908

  Raymer, James ^a   Abel, Guy ^a   Smith, Peter W F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Combining data; Conditional maximization; Elderly migration; England and Wales; Log linear model with offset; Migration estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 34848922812     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2007.00490.x     Document Type: Article

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