Research project

Migration estimates for North Macedonia by using mirror statistics

Research groups:
Lead researcher:

Professor Peter Smith
Other researchers:

Professor Jakub Bijak
Research funder:

United Nations Foundation
Status:

Not active

Project overview

Contract work for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) office in North Macedonia, aimed at providing statistical estimates of migration flows into and out of North Macedonia, using mirror statistics (data from other European countries) and based on the methodology developed in the projects IMEM: Integrated Model of European Migration (www.imem.cpc.ac.uk), and QuantMig: Quantifying Migration Scenarios for Better Policy (www.quantmig.eu).

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Peter Smith

Professor in Social Statistics

Connect with Peter

Email: p.w.smith@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Jakub Bijak

Professor of Statistical Demography

Connect with Jakub

Email: j.bijak@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Centre for Population Change

We examine the impact of population change on people, communities and government.

Demographic and Migration Modelling

The Demographic and Migration Modelling research group develop innovative methods for estimating and forecasting demographic change.