Journal Article

Measuring Migration Distances: Self-Reporting and Indirect Methods

Long, Larry, Urton, William L., Tucker, C. Jack

1988

Overview

Distance is a critical concept in the measurement and analysis of geographical mobility, but statistical offices rarely provide data on distance moved. Two approaches for doing so are simply to ask movers how far they moved or to infer distance from localities of origin and destination. The former has been used in Health Interview Surveys, and the latter is applied to Current Population Surveys; both are national surveys conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. The two approaches appear to produce consistent results and offer ways of increasing comparability of data and research findings on geographical mobility.

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group,American Statistical Association
• Subject: Americas / Applications and Case Studies / Biological and medical sciences / Censuses / Commuters / Commuting / Commuting distances / Data Collection / Demography / Developed Countries / Developing Countries / Emigration and Immigration / Evaluation Studies as Topic / Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology / General aspects / Geography / Health Services Accessibility / Health surveys / Human migration / Internal migration / Mathematics in biology. Statistical analysis. Models. Metrology. Data processing in biology (general aspects) / North America / Older adults / Population / Population Dynamics / Population estimates / Reproducibility of Results / Research Design / Residential mobility / Sampling Studies / Statistical median / Statistics as Topic / United States / United States government publications