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migest

Tools for estimating, measuring and working with migration data.

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Installation

You can install the released version of migest from CRAN with:

install.packages("migest")

And the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("guyabel/migest")

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install.packages('migest')

Monthly Downloads

808

Version

2.0.4

License

GPL-3

Maintainer

Guy Abel

Last Published

November 18th, 2023

Functions in migest (2.0.4)

Dictionary to look up region geographies based on countries used in UN DESA International Migrant Stock.

index_connectivity

Summary indices of migration connectivity

Estimation of bilateral migrant flows from bilateral migrant stocks using demographic accounting approaches

Summary indices of migration impact

Estimation of bilateral migrant flows from bilateral migrant stocks using stock differencing approaches

Summary indices of migration age profile

Summary indices of age migration profile based on parameters from a Rogers and Castro schedule

Estimation of bilateral migrant flows from bilateral migrant stocks using rates approaches

Summary indices of migration distance

index_intensity

Summary indices of migration intensity

Iterative proportional fitting routine for the indirect estimation of origin-destination-type migration flow tables with known origin and destination margins and block diagonal elements.

Iterative proportional fitting routine for the indirect estimation of origin-destination-migrant type migration flow tables with known origin and destination margins.

iterative proportional fitting routine for the indirect estimation of origin-destination-type migration flow tables with known origin and destination margins and stripe elements.

Single year age-specific origin destination migration flows between Italian NUTS1 areas

Iterative proportional fitting routine for the indirect estimation of origin-destination migration flow table with known margins.

Iterative proportional fitting routine for the indirect estimation of origin-destination-migrant type migration flow tables with known origin and destination margins and diagonal elements.

Quickly create IPF seed

Annual origin destination migration flows between Korean regions alongside selected geographic, economic and demographic variables.

Lifetime migration totals for states and zones in the Indian 1901 to 1931

Age specific migration and population counts from two IPUMSI samples

Handle negative native born populations

Methods for the Indirect Estimation of Bilateral Migration

Helper function to format migration input

match_birthplace_tot

Adjust migrant stock tables to have matching place of birth (origin) totals

Manila female population 1970 by age

rescale_integer_sum

Rescale integer vector to a set sum

Rescale net migration total to a global zero sum

Estimate net migration from vital statistics

Summary of bilateral flows, counter-flow and net migration flow

Create a stripped matrix with non-uniform block sizes.

Solutions from the quadratic equation

nb_scale_global

Scale native born populations to match global differences in births and deaths over period

Summary of regional in-, out-, turnover and net-migration totals from an origin-destination migration flow matrix or data frame.

Multiplicative component descriptions of origin-destination flow tables based on total reference coding system.

new_england_1960

New England male white-native population totals in 1950 and 1960 by place of birth and age

Lifetime migration data for Governorates of United Arab Republic in 1960

Chord diagram for directional origin-destination data

Helper function to format migration input

Multiplicative component description of origin-destination migration flow tables

Count the number of characters per line

Calculate net migration from an origin-destination migration flow matrix.

Extract a classic origin-destination migration flow matrix.

Model parameters for six Rogers-Castro migration schedules proposed by UN DESA

Fundamental parameters for Rogers-Castro migration schedule

Sum bilateral data to include aggregate bilateral totals for origin and destination meta areas

Estimate net migration from survival ratios applied to lifetime migration data

Sum and lump together small flows into a "other" category

US population totals in 1950 and 1960 by place of birth, age, sex and race

Umbrella colour scheme

str_wrap_n_single

Single line wrap for string

Wrap character string to fit a target number of lines

Alabama population totals in 1960 and 1970 by age, sex and race

Conditional maximization routine for the indirect estimation of origin-destination-migrant type migration flow tables with known origin and destination margins.

Sum over a selected block in a block matrix

Create a block matrix with non-uniform block sizes.

Calculate births for each element of place of birth - place of residence stock matrix

Conditional maximization routine for the indirect estimation of origin-destination-type migration flow tables with known net migration totals.

Conditional maximization routine for the indirect estimation of origin-destination-type migration flow tables with known net migration and grand totals.

Conditional maximization routine for the indirect estimation of origin-destination migration flow table with known margins

Calculate deaths for each element of place of birth - place of residence stock matrix

Bombay population totals in 1941 and 1951 by age