Impact of internal migration on population redistribution in Slovenia

Drobne, Samo (author), Drešček, Urška (author)

Background: In most countries, data on migration refer only to flows between administratively or statistically defined zones that are changing over time. When different numbers, sizes, and shapes of areas are chosen for analysis of internal migration, different results are generated. This problem is recognised as the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem (MAUP). Objectives: The paper analyses the impact of intermunicipal migration on population redistribution in Slovenia in 2000–2014 by considering the MAUP. Namely, the number of analysed municipalities increased by 19 in the considered period. Methods/Approach: We analysed the MAUP effects and estimated internal migration statistics by producing a large number of aggregations using the IMAGE Studio software. Results: Several statistics that measure the direction and pace of population concentration, as well as the correlation between measures of migration intensity and national development, have been calculated. Conclusions: The results for Slovenia show that the migration efficiency decreases with the development process measured by the human development index.

• Language: English
• Keywords: internal migration, MAUP, population redistribution, zonal aggregation
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FGG - Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2019
• Number of pages: Str. 49-60
• Numbering: Vol. 10, no. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-114846
• UDC: 519.8:528
• ISSN on article: 1847-9375
• DOI: 10.2478/bsrj-2019-017
• COBISS.SI-ID: 9024353

Copyright

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• Publication date in RUL: 19.03.2020

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Business systems research
• Shortened title: Bus. syst. res.
• Publisher: Sciendo, Society for Advancing Innovation and Research in Economy
• ISSN: 1847-9375
• COBISS.SI-ID: 523017241

Licences

• License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Description: The most restrictive Creative Commons license. This only allows people to download and share the work for no commercial gain and for no other purposes.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: notranja selitev, MAUP, porazdelitev prebivalstva, združevanje območij

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P2-0227
• Name: Geoinformacijska infrastruktura in trajnostni prostorski razvoj Slovenije

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P2-0406
• Name: Opazovanje Zemlje in geoinformatika