Internal migration data around the world: Assessing contemporary practice

Population, Space and Place

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-17

  Bell, Martin ^a   Charles Edwards, Elin ^a   Kupiszewska, Dorota ^b   Kupiszewski, Marek ^c   Stillwell, John ^d   Zhu, Yu ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MIGRATION   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND SPATIAL ORGANIZATION   (Poland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^e FUJIAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cross national comparisons; Data sources; Internal migration; Inventory; Measures

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920839549     PISSN: 15448444     EISSN: 15448452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/psp.1848     Document Type: Article

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