Geographical Path Research Articles

Forecasting the Population of Small Areas

..... practical political, economic, and social needs for estimates of the probable size and composition of the future populations of regions, states, and cities have forced students to make estimates in general disregard of the adequacy of data available for such estimation . . . Regularities in the geographical paths of migration have been shown to exist ...0 . The utilization of this knowledge for estimating the future, however, requires estimates of magnitude. Such estimation is as yet impossible.