MULTIVARIATE METHODS IN DEMOGRAPHY STUDIES: AN APPLICATION TO MUNICIPAL MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR FOR SETTLEMENT CATEGORY IN CUBA

Abstract

n this paper a study of the municipal migrations by means of Principal Component Analysis and STATIS is presented. The data used for this purpose are migratory rates calculated at the Office of Statistics of Cuba. The rates are calculated for three periods (1989-1991, 1992-1994 and 1995-1996) for each settlement category (municipality center∗, small urban and small rural settlements) and for two kinds of movements: the migrations within the province and into other provinces of the country. Due to not all municipalities have settlements of all categories, we use a multivariate multilevel model for estimates efficiently the
variance and covariance matrix of a vector of multivariate response with missing data.