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...

This study's purpose was to explore the usefulness of social media data (in this case, that from Google+) in measuring migration.The paper highlights the ways in which innovative approaches are able to take advant...

Blumenstock's work offers an example of how 'big data,' in this case cell phone records, can help measure migration in a world where surveys and censuses are expensive and sometimes erroneous. Especially interesti...