This book is an attempt to assemble experience and to provide guidelines concerning data collection on migration with a focus on internal migration in low-income agrarian and industrializing countries. Chapters are included on theoretical perspectives on migration; conceptualizing territorial mobility; survey design; sample design; identification of migrants and collection of demographic and social information in migration surveys; migrants and the labor process; income transfers and remittances; migration production and technological change; migration land and household assets; the need for and design of community-level questionnaires; and concluding observations on implementing a migration survey.
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Gober et al. (1986) studied this question.