The paper discusses what concerns must be addressed before big data can be used for any official statistics, such as biases from self-selection or ownership issues. A case study is offered, but it is not migr...

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...

This paper points out how socioeconomic status of immigrants affect health indicators. Useful here are the concise paragraphs on how to measure socioeconomic status of immigrants, and how the choice of specific in...