Data for Daudin, Frank & Rapoport « Can internal migration foster the convergence in regional fertility rates? Evidence from 19th century France », Economic Journal (2019), n°620, May, p.1618-1692.

Data for Guillaume Daudin, Raphaël Franck and Hillel Rapoport « Can internal migration foster the convergence in regional fertility rates? Evidence from 19th century France » avec Raphaël Franck et Hillel Rapoport, Economic Journal (2019), n°620, May, p.1618-1692.

Downloading the data will provide you with a .zip file.

To understand what is going on, please refer to the paper, its git depository and especially this file : https://github.com/gdaudin/migrations/blob/master/R%C3%A9capitulatif%20des%20do%20-%20Migration.pdf

All the migration "matrices" are in Stata format (.dta). They are presented as a list of directed pairs of departments (x gender (variable sexe) and x year (variable annee)).

"Matrice_complete_1901+1911.dta" are the migration matrices in the source."Matrices_TRA_Recens.dta" are the main estimated migration matrices.