ABSTRACT
The Michigan Metropolitan Migration Project undertook to compile age-sex disaggregated migration stream data for 81 comparably defined metropolitan areas in 14 developed countries of North America, Europe, Japan, and New Zealand. The metropolitan area constitutes a fundamental organizing concept for most of the empirical research that has been undertaken on the structure and dynamics of population change in American metropolitan areas, cities, and suburbs. With respect to the migration data, it was found that most nations published migration flow tabulations only according to political boundaries rather than metropolitan area boundaries. The kind of analyses that are possible with the Michigan Metropolitan Migration data can be illustrated for Canada. Vancouver is considered to be the peripheral region’s large metropolitan area, and the Central and West regions are combined to form the remaining categories of the peripheral region. The age-migration patterns for Canada’s nonmetropolitan West region resemble almost a mirror image of Montreal’s patterns.
