Abstract
Geographic mobility, or migration, is the third component of population change. Migration is the most dynamic and complex of the three population components. Moreover, it is the most difficult to measure. While death occurs only once and the average number of births per woman in the United States today is about two, the occurrences of migration are much more frequent. The average U.S. resident will move more than twenty times in his or her lifetime (Bailey and Sly 1985). About 17% of the population changes residence each year, and over a five-year period, more than 45% of the population moves.
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Pol, L.G., Thomas, R.K. (1992). International and Internal Migration. In: The Demography of Health and Health Care. The Plenum Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8012-6_8
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