Conference on the Indirect Estimation of Migration

描述（由申请人提供）：这次关于间接估计移民方法的会议将在科罗拉多州召开，召集一个国际合作学者网络，以便在数据不充分、不完整或不可用的情况下，对推断地方到地方的移民流动的新方法进行国际比较评估。在人口统计学中，“间接估计”一词用来描述根据可能只与其值间接相关的数据对某一变量进行估计的推断技术。随着美国十年一次人口普查中“长表格”问卷的取消，取而代之的是一个较小的连续月度抽样调查，研究美国领土流动的学生有时会发现，有必要采用这种间接的估计方法来处理不充分、缺失或可能不准确的“小样本”移民日期。拟出席会议的国家有：澳大利亚、加拿大、意大利、美国、巴西、印度尼西亚和墨西哥。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This conference on methods for the indirect estimation of migration will be convened to bring together in Colorado an international network of collaborating scholars in order to launch an international comparative assessment of new methods for inferring place-to-place migration flows in settings where such data are inadequate, incomplete, or unavailable. The term "indirect estimation" is used in demography to describe inferential techniques that produce estimates of a certain variable on the basis of data that may only be indirectly related to its value. With the future elimination of the "long form" questionnaire from U.S. decennial censuses and its replacement by a smaller continuous monthly sampling survey, students of U.S. territorial mobility will at times find it necessary to deal with inadequate, missing, or possibly inaccurate "small sample" date on migration by adopting such indirect methods of estimation. The countries to be represented at the proposed conference are: Australia, Canada, Italy, the United States, Brazil, Indonesia, and Mexico.