Using Gross Migration Data Compiled from the Social Security Sample File

Open Access

1 February 1974

journal article
Published by Duke University Press in Demography

Vol. 11 (1) , 143-148
https://doi.org/10.2307/2060705

Abstract

A study by Donald Pursell (1972), which examines migration data compiled from the one-percent sample file of the Social Security Administration, is discussed in this paper. An important feature of the data which is neglected by Pursell is pointed out, and the Pursell results are compared with findings obtained using somewhat different treatments of the social security data. The Pursell conclusion that out-migration is negatively related to employment growth is supported by the alternative tests.

Keywords

SOCIAL SECURITY
FILE
TREATMENTS
DATA COMPILED
MIGRATION DATA
PURSELL
NEGLECTED

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

Determinants of Male Labor Mobility
Demography, 1972
Chronic movers and the future redistribution of population: A longitudinal analysis
Demography, 1971