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  • Title: Measuring international migration: theory and practice.
    Author: Zlotnik H.
    Journal: Int Migr Rev; 1987; 21(4):v-925-155. PubMed ID: 12280926.
    Abstract:
    This volume is the result of the collaboration between the INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION REVIEW and 2 of the scientific committees of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population. The Committee on International Migration and the Committee on Data Collection and processing in developing countries jointly organized a workshop entitled "International Migration Statistics: Their Problems and Use" that took place in Ottawa, Canada from November 11-13, 1987. Preliminary versions of about 1/2 of the articles contained in this volume were presented at that workshop. A full report of the discussions that took place at the workshop is also included here. The 43 items contained in this report are grouped under the following headings: Concepts, Developments and Policy; Multilateral Efforts for the Measurement of International Migration; Research Notes; National Statistical Systems: Case Studies; Methodological Approaches; Conference Report; and Book reviews. The articles contained in this volume constitute a valuable contribution to the area of migration research concerned with the measurement and quantification of the phenomenon. They reflect the growing interest of the research community on measurement issues inextricably linked to the complex nature of international population movements. In their coverage of a variety of topics, several leitmotifs can be detected. Brief descriptions of a few that deserve to be singled out as challenges that still remain to be met by those interested in improving the data and the methods used to measure migration follow. 1) Flexibility might be enhanced by gathering and coding detailed information on certain items so as to allow their varied exploitation at a later date. Ease of access to the basic data gathered, through samples and computer-readable media, is another important means of increasing flexibility in the exploitation of existing data sources. Flexibility in the use of available statistics should also be pursued; methods that permit the adjustment of existing data to enhance comparability are of special interest. 2) Access to information is necessary to obtain the benefits of this flexibility. Information needed goes beyond mere migrant counts. To increase access to administrative data, governments must be convinced of their usefulness. 3) Adaptability is another important goal, given the rapidly changing context in which migration takes place. The conceptual development needed to apprehend those changes and make them measurable still remains to be achieved.
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