TY - JOUR
T1 - Estimation of Place-to-Place Migration Flows from Net Migration Totals
T2 - A Minimum Information Approach
AU - Plane, David A.
PY - 1981/4
Y1 - 1981/4
N2 - A truism in demography has been that net migration may be derived from information on gross place-to-place flows, but that gross place-to-place flows cannot be inferred back from information on the net population movements in a system. Some recent work on maximum entropy and minimum information models, however, suggests a possible means for estimating just such a set of place-to-place flows. The net migration constrained model presented here could prove particularly useful for updating detailed migration matrices on the basis of current net migration estimates, and could even provide some clues as to the nature of the still poorly understood relationship between gross and net migration. Performance of the model is demonstrated using flow matrices from the 1960 and 1970 U.S. Censuses of Population.
AB - A truism in demography has been that net migration may be derived from information on gross place-to-place flows, but that gross place-to-place flows cannot be inferred back from information on the net population movements in a system. Some recent work on maximum entropy and minimum information models, however, suggests a possible means for estimating just such a set of place-to-place flows. The net migration constrained model presented here could prove particularly useful for updating detailed migration matrices on the basis of current net migration estimates, and could even provide some clues as to the nature of the still poorly understood relationship between gross and net migration. Performance of the model is demonstrated using flow matrices from the 1960 and 1970 U.S. Censuses of Population.
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U2 - 10.1177/016001768100600103
DO - 10.1177/016001768100600103
M3 - Article
C2 - 12312181
AN - SCOPUS:0019729905
VL - 6
SP - 33
EP - 51
JO - International Regional Science Review
JF - International Regional Science Review
SN - 0160-0176
IS - 1
ER -