title: Integrated modelling of age and sex patterns of European migration.
abstract: Age and sex patterns of migration are essential for understanding drivers of population change and heterogeneity of migrant groups. We develop a hierarchical Bayesian model to estimate such patterns for international migration in the European Union and European Free Trade Association from 2002 to 2008, which was a period of time when the number of members expanded from 19 to 31 countries. Our model corrects for the inadequacies and inconsistencies in the available data and estimates the missing patterns. The posterior distributions of the age and sex profiles are then combined with a matrix of origin-destination flows, resulting in a synthetic database with measures of uncertainty for migration flows and other model parameters.
authors: University of Manchester UK; University of Southampton UK.
authors: Arkadiusz
authors: A
authors: Wiśniowski
authors: University of Southampton UK.
authors: Jonathan J
authors: JJ
authors: Forster
authors: University of Southampton UK.
authors: Peter W F
authors: PW
authors: Smith
authors: University of Southampton UK.
authors: Jakub
authors: J
authors: Bijak
authors: Australian National University Canberra Australia.
authors: James
authors: J
authors: Raymer
keywords: Bayesian modelling; Contingency tables; Europe; International migration statistics; Migration models