[Confronting the statistics on intra-European migration:  toward greater harmonization?].
"Each international migration stream can be enumerated twice:  at the time of departure from the country of emigration and at the time of arrival in the country of immigration.  In practice, errors in international migration statistics are a major obstacle to the accurate analysis of migration flows.  In connection with the process of harmonization set in train by Eurostat several years ago, a method of correcting defective migration data is proposed here, which makes use of this double enumeration.  The method is applied to available data in a preliminary analysis.  The correction factors presented here through this mathematical approach should turn out to be useful in more than one respect:  to illuminate substantial problems of incompatibility of migration data and to follow the progress of the harmonization of those data." (SUMMARY IN ENG)
D003625:Data Collection; D003710:Demography; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005062:European Union; D009938:Organizations; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012106:Research; D012107:Research Design; D013223:Statistics as Topic
Data Analysis; Data Collection; Data Quality; Data Sources; Demographic Factors; Error Sources; European Community; International Migration; Measurement; Migration; Organizations; Population; Population Dynamics; Population Statistics; Research Methodology
Confrontation des statistiques de migrations intra-europeennes: vers plus d'harmonisation?