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  • Title: [The historical analysis of migration: the pertinence of longitudinal analysis based on retrospective histories].
    Author: Piche V, Gregory J, Lavoie J.
    Journal: Genus; 1984; 40(3-4):25-45. PubMed ID: 12267210.
    Abstract:
    The appropriateness of longitudinal analysis as a technique for studying migration is considered. Migration in Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) is used as the example. Data are taken from the 1974-75 National Survey of Migration, in which 36,785 men and 38,987 women were questioned. The authors begin with a theoretical discussion of the biases to be expected in retrospective histories. They next look at the migration data using first longitudinal analysis and then cross-sectional analysis. Results, at least for this example, show that cross-sectional analysis of migration has the advantage over longitudinal analysis of allowing the correlations between changes in migration patterns and particular historical events to be seen more readily.
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