Below are details of the above meeting:
Russell Ecob, Ben Torsney
Tuesday March 21st, 5.15 pm (tea at 4.45 pm)
Room 203, Mathematics Bdg., University of Glasgow,
15 University Gdns., Glasgow G12 8QW
This is a joint meeting with The 2006 Research Students Conference
Tim Holt - President of The Society.
Dept Social Statistics, Univ. Southampton.
Estimating International Migration
Estimates of international migration into and out of the UK are of great
importance for a number of reasons: they contribute the main uncertainty
into total population estimates which are used for a variety of purposes
and are central to any national statistical system. They have high
political profile in their own right given the political sensitivity of the
level of migration and its sources into the UK.
These estimates are based in the main on the International Passenger Survey
and have been subject to very large revisions following the recent Census.
The seminar will give a brief account of the current system and then focus
on whether there is an alternative approach that could give better quality
statistics either as a replacement for the IPS in this regard or as a means
of assessing the quality of the estimates coming from the IPS.
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Ben Torsney Phone: +44 (0)141 330 5149
Dept of Statistics Fax: +44 (0)141 330 4814
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University of Glasgow http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/~bent
Glasgow G12 8QW
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