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Multilingual Demographic Dictionary, second unified edition, English volume

Absorption

Multilingual Demographic Dictionary, second unified edition, English vol.
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Absorption  (ABSORPTION)


Information collected in censuses and surveys allows the development of statistics on migrants 1. Depending on the questions asked, these usually include statistics on in-migrants 2, statistics on out-migrants 2 and place-of-birth statistics 3. This approach has limits for the study of international migration; emigrants cannot be studied, whereas immigrants are known, whatever their country of origin. More...