Internal Migration in Canada. Demographic Analyses

trends, on concentration in urban and metropolitan areas and on economic aspects. For the most part, George's analysis begins with 1931. It is based mainly on statistics of province of birth and of change of residence between 1956 and 1961. The eight chapters deal, respectively, with introductory matters; definitions and evaluation of basic data; estimation of internal migration; population growth and redistribution; levels and trends in migration; migration streams; migration differentials by age, sex and marital status; and summary and conclusions. The two appendices are devoted to reference tables and to exposition of the place-of-birth survival-ratio method for estimation of intercensal net migration. Canada is fortunate in that it has tabulated data on province of birth since 1931 by age and sex. (The item on the questionnaire goes back to the census of 1901.) Thus George can and does use the relatively powerful methods for analyzing such data that allow for intercensal mortality and treat separately the interprovincial migration of the in-born and of the outborn. These methods were developed at the University of Pennsylvania by Hope T. Eldridge and Yun Kim. The results

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