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migest

Tools for estimating, measuring and working with migration data.

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Installation

You can install the released version of migest from CRAN with:

install.packages("migest")

And the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("guyabel/migest")

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Install

install.packages('migest')

Monthly Downloads

583

Version

2.0.5

License

GPL-3

Maintainer

Guy Abel

Last Published

July 3rd, 2025

Functions in migest (2.0.5)

Estimation of bilateral migrant flows from bilateral migrant stocks using stock differencing approaches

Summary indices of migration impact

Summary indices of migration age profile

index_connectivity

Summary indices of migration connectivity

Summary indices of age migration profile based on parameters from a Rogers and Castro schedule

Estimation of bilateral migrant flows from bilateral migrant stocks using rates approaches

Estimation of bilateral migrant flows from bilateral migrant stocks using demographic accounting approaches

Dictionary to look up region geographies based on countries used in UN DESA International Migrant Stock.

Summary indices of migration distance

index_intensity

Summary indices of migration intensity

Quickly create IPF seed

Single year age-specific origin destination migration flows between Italian NUTS1 areas

Iterative proportional fitting routine for the indirect estimation of origin-destination-migrant type migration flow tables with known origin and destination margins.

Iterative proportional fitting routine for the indirect estimation of origin-destination-migrant type migration flow tables with known origin and destination margins and diagonal elements.

Lifetime migration totals for states and zones in the Indian 1901 to 1931

Iterative proportional fitting routine for the indirect estimation of origin-destination migration flow table with known margins.

match_birthplace_tot

Adjust migrant stock tables to have matching place of birth (origin) totals

Manila female population 1970 by age

Helper function to format migration input

Methods for the Indirect Estimation of Bilateral Migration

Annual origin destination migration flows between Korean regions alongside selected geographic, economic and demographic variables.

Age specific migration and population counts from two IPUMSI samples

Multiplicative component descriptions of origin-destination flow tables based on total reference coding system.

Estimate net migration from survival ratios applied to lifetime migration data

Multiplicative component description of origin-destination migration flow tables

net_matrix_optim

Estimate Migration Flows to Match Net Totals via Quadratic Optimization

Iterative proportional fitting routine for the indirect estimation of origin-destination-type migration flow tables with known origin and destination margins and block diagonal elements.

iterative proportional fitting routine for the indirect estimation of origin-destination-type migration flow tables with known origin and destination margins and stripe elements.

Helper function to format migration input

Chord diagram for directional origin-destination data

Estimate Migration Flows to Match Net Totals via Iterative Proportional Fitting

Wrap character string to fit a target number of lines

Create a stripped matrix with non-uniform block sizes.

Solutions from the quadratic equation

Estimate Migration Flows to Match Net Totals via Linear Programming

str_wrap_n_single

Single line wrap for string

Summary of bilateral flows, counter-flow and net migration flow

Umbrella colour scheme

Estimate net migration from vital statistics

Handle negative native born populations

nb_scale_global

Scale native born populations to match global differences in births and deaths over period

new_england_1960

New England male white-native population totals in 1950 and 1960 by place of birth and age

Calculate net migration from an origin-destination migration flow matrix.

Sum bilateral data to include aggregate bilateral totals for origin and destination meta areas

net_matrix_entropy

Estimate Migration Flows to Match Net Totals via Entropy Minimization

Fundamental parameters for Rogers-Castro migration schedule

Model parameters for six Rogers-Castro migration schedules proposed by UN DESA

Count the number of characters per line

Extract a classic origin-destination migration flow matrix.

Unilateral summaries of in-, out-, turnover and net-migration totals from an origin-destination migration flow matrix or data frame.

Lifetime migration data for Governorates of United Arab Republic in 1960

Sum and lump together small flows into a "other" category

Rescale net migration total to a global zero sum

rescale_integer_sum

Rescale integer vector to a set sum

US population totals in 1950 and 1960 by place of birth, age, sex and race

Create a block matrix with non-uniform block sizes.

Alabama population totals in 1960 and 1970 by age, sex and race

Calculate deaths for each element of place of birth - place of residence stock matrix

Calculate births for each element of place of birth - place of residence stock matrix

Sum over a selected block in a block matrix

Conditional maximization routine for the indirect estimation of origin-destination migration flow table with known margins

Conditional maximization routine for the indirect estimation of origin-destination-type migration flow tables with known net migration and grand totals.

Conditional maximization routine for the indirect estimation of origin-destination-type migration flow tables with known net migration totals.

Conditional maximization routine for the indirect estimation of origin-destination-migrant type migration flow tables with known origin and destination margins.

Bombay population totals in 1941 and 1951 by age