migration.field.diagram: Joint plot for in and out-migration fields
Description
This migration field diagram makes easy to visualize both direction of migration. E.g. points above the diagonal "are outward redistributors, while those below that line are inward redistributors."
Usage
migration.field.diagram(
m,
method = c("gini", "acv"),
title = "Migration field diagram",
xlab = "Out-migration",
ylab = "In-migration"
)
Arguments
m
migration matrix
method
measurement of in and out-migration
title
plot title
xlab
label for x axis
ylab
label for y axis
References
Source code was adopted from Michael Ward and Kristian Skrede Gleditsch (2008) Spatial Regression Models. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. with the permission of the authors.
Case study and use case: Andrei Rogers and Stuart Sweeney (1998) Measuring the Spatial Focus of Migration Patterns. The Professional Geographer50, 232--242