Comparing Migration in Britain and Australia: Harmonisation through Use of Age–Time Plans

Martin Bell and Philip Rees
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Martin Bell: School of Geography, Planning and Architecture, The University of Queensland, Queensland 4072, Australia
Philip Rees: School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, England

Environment and Planning A, 2006, vol. 38, issue 5, 959-988

Abstract: Differences in the way migration is measured impede cross-national comparisons of internal migration. In this paper we utilise age–time diagrams to elucidate these problems for Australia and the United Kingdom and present solutions which generate time series of interregional migration for the two countries, harmonised with respect to age–time plans. We achieve this through estimation of the numbers of migration transitions (Australia) or migration events (Britain) for common age–period–cohort (APC) spaces. We derive appropriate population stocks for computation of transition probabilities or occurrence-exposure rates. In the final section of the paper we present a series of migration-intensity calculations based on varying combinations of period–cohort, period–age, and age–period–cohort perspectives, to demonstrate the significance of the variations, and the errors that can arise without harmonisation.

Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1068/a35245

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