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Approaches to predicting future migration flows and trends

Future migration trends

Anticipating future migration flows encompasses an increasingly diverse field of approaches. Early warnings systems, foresight (scenarios) and forecasting are the three main approaches intended to provide informed...
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Migration data sources

The demands for migration data arising from the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development have prompted the international statistical community to review the use of traditional sources for migration data, such as po...
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IOM data overview

Through a large footprint of offices worldwide, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) collects and reports on original data from a number of sources in its own programmes and operations. Som...
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Public opinion on migration

Surveys of public opinion on migration are common in many countries. Typically, these polls tend to ask questions about the population’s general views on immigration and immigrants. Public opinion on migration can...

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Metholodologies for the Estimation of Stocks of Irregular Migrants

This paper discusses how to measure these 'hard to reach' populations, either directly or indirectly. Although it is impossible to get an entirely accurate number of undocumented migrants, Jandl offers a number of...
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Data and Analysis: Partnering to better understand and address the human development aspects of migration

This paper briefly reviews the contributions of members of the Global Migration Group (GMG)1 to the improvement of migration data and to policy-relevant migration research, discusses the obstacles that still ...
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Enhancing Data on Migration in West and Central Africa

This publication is meant to address the current problems and insufficiencies plaguing statistics in West and Central Africa, touching on common problems that inhibit adequate data collected from censuses as well ...
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Census Data Capture Methodology

This manual outlines common kinds of data capture, which will help those working with censuses to be able to harvest wanted information from census data. Though it does not offer explicit instructions for carrying...

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