Estimating Internal Migration in Contemporary Mexico and its Relevance in Gridded Population Distributions
Given downward trends in fertility and mortality, population dynamics –and thus the<br />estimation of spatially-explicit population dynamics and gridded population and derivative<br />products– are increasingly sensitive to mobility processes and their changes in spa...
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| description | Given downward trends in fertility and mortality, population dynamics –and thus the<br />estimation of spatially-explicit population dynamics and gridded population and derivative<br />products– are increasingly sensitive to mobility processes and their changes in spatiality. In this<br />paper, we present a procedure to produce origin-destination intermunicipal/intercounty and<br />interstate migration matrices, briefly discussing their use and application in gridded population<br />products. To illustrate our approach, we produce total and sex-specific matrices with information<br />from the 2000 and 2010 Mexican Census long-form 10% surveys. We share the code required to<br />reproduce the extraction of these and for potentially at least another 122 country-periods based on<br />harmonized publicly-available data from IPUMS International, which allow for the addition of<br />ancillary social and economic data and individual and household levels, or IPUMS Terra, which<br />further allow for GIS-based mapping, visualization, and manipulation and for the merging of<br />important contextual, e.g., environmental, data. Besides discussing the likely limitations of these<br />measures, using official projections from the Mexican government, we illustrate how<br />migration/mobility data improve the estimation of spatial/gridded population dynamics. We wrap<br />up with a call for the collection of more adequate, spatially-explicit data on residential mobility and<br />migration globally. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-43a3e1f18195430eb2bda95b91c0b7bb2022-12-22T03:58:36ZengMDPI AGData2306-57292019-04-01425010.3390/data4020050data4020050Estimating Internal Migration in Contemporary Mexico and its Relevance in Gridded Population DistributionsBryan Jones0Fernando Riosmena1Daniel H. Simon2Deborah Balk3Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, Baruch College, City University of New York, New York, NY 10010, USAPopulation Program and Geography Department, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80302, USADepartment of Sociology, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80302, USAMarxe School of Public and International Affairs, Baruch College, City University of New York, New York, NY 10010, USAGiven downward trends in fertility and mortality, population dynamics –and thus the<br />estimation of spatially-explicit population dynamics and gridded population and derivative<br />products– are increasingly sensitive to mobility processes and their changes in spatiality. In this<br />paper, we present a procedure to produce origin-destination intermunicipal/intercounty and<br />interstate migration matrices, briefly discussing their use and application in gridded population<br />products. To illustrate our approach, we produce total and sex-specific matrices with information<br />from the 2000 and 2010 Mexican Census long-form 10% surveys. We share the code required to<br />reproduce the extraction of these and for potentially at least another 122 country-periods based on<br />harmonized publicly-available data from IPUMS International, which allow for the addition of<br />ancillary social and economic data and individual and household levels, or IPUMS Terra, which<br />further allow for GIS-based mapping, visualization, and manipulation and for the merging of<br />important contextual, e.g., environmental, data. Besides discussing the likely limitations of these<br />measures, using official projections from the Mexican government, we illustrate how<br />migration/mobility data improve the estimation of spatial/gridded population dynamics. We wrap<br />up with a call for the collection of more adequate, spatially-explicit data on residential mobility and<br />migration globally.https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5729/4/2/50internal migrationresidential mobilitygridded population productsspatial population distributions |
| spellingShingle | Bryan Jones Fernando Riosmena Daniel H. Simon Deborah Balk Estimating Internal Migration in Contemporary Mexico and its Relevance in Gridded Population Distributions Data internal migration residential mobility gridded population products spatial population distributions |
| title | Estimating Internal Migration in Contemporary Mexico and its Relevance in Gridded Population Distributions |
| title_full | Estimating Internal Migration in Contemporary Mexico and its Relevance in Gridded Population Distributions |
| title_fullStr | Estimating Internal Migration in Contemporary Mexico and its Relevance in Gridded Population Distributions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Estimating Internal Migration in Contemporary Mexico and its Relevance in Gridded Population Distributions |
| title_short | Estimating Internal Migration in Contemporary Mexico and its Relevance in Gridded Population Distributions |
| title_sort | estimating internal migration in contemporary mexico and its relevance in gridded population distributions |
| topic | internal migration residential mobility gridded population products spatial population distributions |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5729/4/2/50 |
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