title: Estimation of place-to-place migration flows from net migration totals:  a minimum information approach.
abstract: "A truism in demography has been that net migration may be derived from information on gross place-to-place flows, but that gross place-to-place flows cannot be inferred back from information on the net population movements in a system.  Some recent work on maximum entropy and minimum information models, however, suggests a possible means for estimating just such as set of place-to-place flows.  The net migration constrained model presented here could prove particularly useful for updating detailed migration matrices on the basis of current net migration estimates, and could even provide some clues as to the nature of the still poorly understood relationship between gross and net migration.  Performance of the model is demonstrated using flow matrices from the 1960 and 1970 U.S. Censuses.
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Plane
mesh_terms: D000569:Americas; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009656:North America; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012106:Research; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D014481:United States
keywords: Americas; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Estimation Technics; Migration; Migration, Internal; Models, Theoretical; North America; Northern America; Population; Population Dynamics; Research Methodology; United States