Poisson regression models of Canadian census division migration flows

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Article

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Office of the Provost

Abstract

Tax-file data are available for moves between census divisions in Canada on a year-by-year basis, and may be the best data source for studying migration flows between censuses. This paper reports the results of fitting a series of models to the 1985 to 1986 flows using a form of regression analysis based on the Poisson distribution that is appropriate for count data. These models confirm results well-known from interprovincial and intermetropolitan migration analysis, but also reveal some more surprising results.

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This work was published before the author joined Aga Khan University.

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Papers of the Regional Science Association

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