Estimates of Net Internal Migration for Korea 1970-75

Abstract

This is to present the estimates of net migration in Korea during the five-year intercensal period 1970-75. In estimating the volumes and rates of net migration, we have adopted the forward census survival ratio method for all, urban and rural areas of each province: and each administratively defined city, by five-year age group and sex. Procedures and major assumptions involved in the calculation are described below. Similar estimates for the quinquennial periods during 1955-70 were published in Bulletin of the Population and Development Studies Center, Vol. IV(Kwon, 1975). The set of estimates presenting here is a 1970-75 counterpart of the previous set of estimates for 1955-70. Since the two sets of estimates are based on almost identical procedures and assumptions, hence present discussions are limited to those particularly relevant to the current estimates.