GGR111H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Population Geography, Foreign Worker, Spatial Scale
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Push: negative reasons to leave a place. Pull: positive reasons to go to a place. Possible factors: legal status, economic conditions, cultural factors, political circumstances / armed conflict, environmental conditions, technological advances. People travel / migrate for a variety of purposes: be able to identify potential push and pull factors in a given situation. Multiple data sources can be used, historically census was most common. Mobile phone data addresses some of the key limitations of census data for mapping population. Identify key strengths and weaknesses of both census and mobile phone data.
