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About IOM data

Through a large footprint of offices worldwide, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) collects and reports...

Data Bulletin 4: Improving Data for safe, orderly and regular migration

This issue summarizes the main sources of migration statistics and explains some of the data demands countries are...

Data Bulletin 5: Big data and migration: How big data innovation can serve migration policymaking

What is the potential of new data sources, such as mobile phones, social media and satellite imagery, to improve...

Data Bulletin 2: More Than Numbers: The value of migration data

This issue highlights that, while migration data are gaining traction on the international development agenda, as both...

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Big data, migration and human mobility

The term "big data" includes anonymized data that are generated by users of mobile devices, internet-based platforms, or by digital sensors and meters, for example, satellite imagery. With about 5.16 billion uniqu...
Data protection and migration

Migration and data protection

Data protection in the migration context has become increasingly relevant given the growing need for more reliable statistics, comprehensive and timely data, and the emergence of new technologies. The incidences o...

Migration data relevant for the COVID-19 pandemic

Migrants – particularly in lower paid jobs and in irregular situations – may be both more affected by and vulnerable to the spread of COVID-19, but migrants also play an important role in the response to COVID-19 ...
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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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Resource

Building Migration Data Capacity: Examples of Good Practices for the African Region

Building Migration Data Capacity: Examples of Good Practices for the African Region

Central Mediterranean Route Thematic Report Series, Issue No. 3 This report reviews good practices in migration data capacity-building by looking at recent efforts by international organizations to enhance...
UNESCAP Stats Brief

Can mobile phone data be used for official statistics? Asia and the Pacific say yes.

This paper presents outcomes from a Regional Workshop on the Use of Mobile Phone Data for Official Statistics, hosted by BPS Indonesia in conjunction with UN ESCAP, UN DESA, Pulse Lab Jakarta and the UN Globa...
Migration data on the Central Mediterranean Route: What do we know?

Migration data on the Central Mediterranean Route: What do we know?

GMDAC briefing series: Towards safer migration in Africa: Migration data in Northern and Western Africa While migration topics in Northern and Western Africa are in the political spotlight, relevant data on mig...
A Framework For The Ethical Use Of Advanced Data Science Methods In The Humanitarian Sector

A Framework For The Ethical Use Of Advanced Data Science Methods In The Humanitarian Sector

This is a framework for applying data science methods for humanitarian outcomes. It aims to provide a set of ethical and practical guidelines for humanitarian data collectors, users, and stakeholders to consider w...

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SDGs

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Migration Data and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Introduction The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development recognizes for the first time the contribution of migration to sustainable development. Migration is a cross-cutting issue in the 2030 Agenda, ...
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SDG 2: ZERO HUNGER

What do we know?     Migration-relevant SDG targets and indicators: All indicators are classified by the IAEG-SDGs into three tiers               &...

SDG 3: GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING

What do we know? Migration-relevant SDG targets and indicators: All indicators are classified by the IAEG-SDGs into three tiers based on their level of methodological development and the availability of ...

SDG 17: PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE GOALS

What do we know? Source: IOM, 2024.   Migration-relevant SDG targets and indicators:   Indicators below are classified by the IAEG-SDGs into three tiers       ...

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Blog

5 recommendations to improve data for safe, orderly and regular migration

It is widely acknowledged that there is a paucity of basic data on international migration and that existing data are not fully utilized or shared. On many occasions, the UN General Assembly has called for reliabl...
Data collaboratives in West Africa

Designing Data Collaboratives to Better Understand Human Mobility and Migration in West Africa

(This article was published originally on the 12th of August 2021 on the Big Data for Migration Alliance's blog.)  
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Migration Data in Asia and the Pacific - Launch Event

Introducing IOM’s Asia-Pacific Regional Data Hub (RDH), key findings from a new Regional Secondary Data Review (RSDR) and new sub-regional migration data overviews. The event was held online on Monday, 10 May 2...

Improving data on migration in Africa: Expert voices

For 17 per cent of countries in Africa, the most recent data available from censuses referred to years prior to 2005. Only four in ten countries in Africa can provide data on the age of international migrants. ...

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