Volume 51 - Article 22 | Pages 687–722
The pitfalls and benefits of using administrative data for internal migration research: An evaluation of Australia’s Person Level Integrated Data Asset (PLIDA)
By Aude Bernard, Jing Wu, Tom Wilson, Neil Argent, Tomasz Zając, Anthony Kimpton
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