Confronting the statistics on intra-European migration: toward greater harmonization?
Poulain, M.
European Journal of Population 9(4): 353-381
1993
ISSN/ISBN: 0168-6577 PMID: 12345355 DOI: 10.1007/bf01265643Document Number: 199946
"Each international migration stream can be enumerated twice: at the time of departure from the country of emigration and at the time of arrival in the country of immigration. In practice, errors in international migration statistics are a major obstacle to the accurate analysis of migration flows. In connection with the process of harmonization set in train by Eurostat several years ago, a method of correcting defective migration data is proposed here, which makes use of this double enumeration. The method is applied to available data in a preliminary analysis. The correction factors presented here through this mathematical approach should turn out to be useful in more than one respect: to illuminate substantial problems of incompatibility of migration data and to follow the progress of the harmonization of those data." (SUMMARY IN ENG)