ON UNDERSTANDING MIGRATION STATISTICS
Abstract
The article is focused on the issues of users' competence when dealing with statistics on migration. An attempt is made to explain the reasons of current unsatisfactory situation, including those associated with the state of training and methodological literature on statistics of population and demography. The textbooks most often do not provide complete description of the sources of data on migration, indicators of migration are associated mainly with statistics of flows, and the statistics of migrant stocks often remains in the shadows. The users demonstrate careless attitude towards the definitions of migrants in different sources of statistics, confusion of categories, choice of irrelevant data. The findings are illustrated with examples from textbooks, mass media, etc.
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Chudinovskikh O.S. ON UNDERSTANDING MIGRATION STATISTICS. Voprosy statistiki. 2017;(5):19-27. (In Russ.)
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