Abstract
BACKGROUND
Data on
migration trends are crucially lacking in developing countries. The lack of
basic information on migration contrasts sharply with the increasing importance of
migration in the policy agenda of both s
ending and receiving countries.
OBJECTIVE
The general ob
jectives of this paper are: to show how trends in international migration
can be reconstructed with three questions in a household survey; to evaluate the
precision of the estimates; and to test how sensitive the estimates are to several
methodolog
ical cho
ices and assumptions