Because of the weaknesses associated with using censuses data to estimate migratory flows, some researchers suggest that geolocated big data, like cell phone data or even date from social media platforms like Twit...

ABSTRACT FROM ARTICLE: International migration flow data often lack adequate measurements of volume, direction and completeness. These pitfalls limit empirical comparative studies of migration and cross national po...

The paper examines how migration data in National Surveys (MiNS) is catalogued to measure to what extent and with what thoroughness child migration is calculated in existing surveys and censuses; and whe...

This Belgian case study serves as an example of how mobile phone data might be utilized to track migration flows in real time, as opposed to the infrequency of the census. To test its accuracy, the authors compare...