migration {wpp2010}

Datasets on Migration

Description

Estimates and projections of male and female age-specific net migration.

Usage

data(migrationM)
data(migrationF)

Format

Data frames with one row per country and age group. For each country there are 21 age groups. It contains the following variables:

country

Country name.

country_code

Numerical Location Code (3-digit codes following ISO 3166-1 numeric standard) - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_numeric.

age

A character string representing an age interval. For each country there are 21 values: “0-4”, “5-9”, “10-14”, “15-19”, “20-24”, “25-29”, “30-34”, “35-39”, “40-44”, “45-49”, “50-54”, “55-59”, “60-64”, “65-69”, “70-74”, “75-79”, “80-84”, “85-89”, “90-94”, “95-99”, and “100+” in that order.

1990-1995, 1995-2000, 2000-2005, ...

Net migration for the specific time period. Not available data are represented by an empty string.

Note

Distributions of net migrants by age and sex are provided for illustrative purpose only. Migration figures are based on intercensal net residuals and official statistics, population distribution by age and sex or simplified versions of Rogers-Castro migration age patterns, and incorporate statistical adjustment errors.

Source

These datasets are based on estimates and projections of United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2011).

References

World Population Prospects: The 2010 Revision. (http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp) Special Tabulations.

Examples

data(migrationM)
str(migrationM)