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The local administrative units used to define internal migration vary greatly in size and shape from country to country. Because no statistical procedure has been devised to correct for the variation, it has not been possible to compare in a very exact manner different countries in terms of the amount of geographic mobility within their borders. One way of circumventing the problem is to ignore migration-defining areas altogether and to consider all moves. This article examines statistics on residential mobility for the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and Japan.
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