Skip to contents

Age specific migration and population counts from two IPUMSI samples

Source: R/ipumsi_age.R
ipumsi_age.Rd

Age specific migration and population counts for Brazil 2000 and France 2006 IPUMS International samples. Attempt to recreate the unsmoothed data used in the appendix of Bernard, Bell and Charles-Edwards (2014)

Usage

ipumsi_age

Format

Data frame with 202 rows and 4 columns:

sample

IPUMS International sample - either BRA2000 or FRA2006

age

Age on census data

migrants

Number of migrants, defined by those who had changed usual place of residence to a different minor administrative region compared to usual place of residence five years prior to the census. Obtained by summing person weights for migrate5 variable equal to any of code 12, 20 or 30.

population

Population of each age group, obtained by summing person weights perwt variable.

Source

Minnesota Population Center. (2015). Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, International: Version 6.4 Machine-readable database https://international.ipums.org/international/

Bernard, A., Bell, M., & Charles-Edwards, E. (2014). Improved measures for the cross-national comparison of age profiles of internal migration. Population Studies, 68(2), 179–195.