title: International migration, 1995: some reflections on an exceptional year.
abstract: "This paper examines the 1995 international migration statistics in the context of New Zealand's immigration policy, and with reference to the impact of migration on population change in 1995. Particular attention is focused on trying to unravel and interpret the statistics relating to net migration. Considerable confusion has arisen in the public debate about immigration because of uniformed and, at times, quite misleading use of information supplied by Statistics New Zealand and the Department of Labour.... This is a reprinted version of an article originally published in the New Zealand Journal of Geography in April 1996. The article has been reprinted because a number of tables in the earlier version were incorrectly reproduced. Any inconvenience caused by this problem is regretted."
mesh_terms: D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D009520:New Zealand; D010139:Pacific Islands; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011640:Public Policy; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012106:Research; D012107:Research Design; D013223:Statistics as Topic
keywords: Data Analysis; Data Quality; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; International Migration; Measurement; Migration; Migration Policy; New Zealand; Oceania; Policy; Population; Population Dynamics; Population Policy; Population Statistics; Reliability; Research Methodology; Social Policy