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Sudan – A 360° view on the migration and mobility dimensions of the current crisis

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How sensitive are estimates of working children and child labour to definitions?

This UNICEF paper discusses Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) and their positive impact on ensuring data collection on women and children in low to middle income countries or helping countries measure atta...
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Guidelines for the Template for a Generic National Quality Assurance Framework (NQAF)

These guidelines offer a flexible template for countries to establish and prepare their own national statistics framework or strengthen their existing system. The publication addresses all the steps needed to do t...
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Manual on Child Labour Rapid Assessment Methodology

Rapid Accessment (RA) is a primarily qualitative research method that allows researchers, academics, and other practitioners to conduct data collection in a cost effective manner over a shorter time span. Techniqu...
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Data Collection and Analysis, Chapter 2 of the Ten Point Plan in Action 2016 Update

The chapter within a larger UNHCR work The 10 Point Plan in Action addresses the management of mixed migration, or migratory movements where migrants travelling along the same route have different motives (su...

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Comprehensive approaches but in a silo: 3 findings from the Migration Governance Indicators (MGI)

Not least since 2015, issues of human mobility have been high on many political agendas around the world. Yet available information on migration governance in different countries is highly unequal, with the focus ...

Migration Statistics: Let's Make Better Use of Existing Data

Using Facebook data to trace relocations from Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria

It is impossible to provide timely estimates of human migration flows after natural disasters by using only traditional data. Facebook offers new opportunities as a complementary source of information. An internat...

We have recommendations, now to implementation: The work of the Expert Group on Refugee and IDP Statistics

Recommendations for official statistics are important. They exist for censuses, civil registration and vital statistics, energy and many other thematic and substantive areas. The new recommendations for refugee an...

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Googling ‘Jobs in Melbourne’: How Google data can help to estimate migration flows

Exploring the potential of online search data to estimate migration flows for the case of Australia
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Mobile phone data from Namibia and Senegal: Understanding the interconnection of long- and short-term mobility patterns within African countries

Investigating the links between long- and short-term national mobility patterns, using call detail records (CDRs) from mobile network providers in Namibia and Senegal
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Large area population mapping: Using geolocated Twitter data to map the population distribution in Indonesia

Mapping Indonesian population distributions with using geolocated Twitter data
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Unveiling hidden migration and mobility patterns in climate stressed regions: A longitudinal study of six million anonymous mobile phone users in Bangladesh

Providing for detailed insights into climate induced short- and long-term migration in Bangladesh using mobile phone data

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Videos

TALKING MIGRATION DATA: Using big data to understand migration (part 1)

Ingmar Weber, Research Director at Qatar Computing Research Institute, shares his views on the use of big data to understand migration. This interview took place during the workshop "Big Data and alternative da...
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TALKING MIGRATION DATA: Data on labour migration in Asia

Manolo Abella, Senior Research Associate of COMPAS, University of Oxford, talks to GMDAC about data on labour migration in Asia.
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TALKING MIGRATION DATA: The effects of migration data on development

Hein de Haas, Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, shares his views on data, migration and development.  Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this video are those of the intervi...
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TALKING MIGRATION DATA: How does the UN calculate the number of migrants globally?

Bela Hovy, Chief of the Migration Section at UN DESA, talks to GMDAC about how the United Nations calculates the total number of migrants around the world. Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in th...
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Migration Governance Profiles

Migration Governance Profile: The Republic of Cameroon

This country Profile describes examples of well-developed areas of the Republic of Cameroon (hereafter referred to as Cameroon) migration governance structures and areas with potential for further development, as ...

Profil de gouvernance de la migration : La République du Cameroun

Ce profil décrit les points forts et les aspects à développer des structures de gouvernance des migrations de La République du Cameroun, sur la base des six domaines du cadre de gouvernance des migrations (MiGOF)....

Migration Governance Profile: The Republic of Seychelles

This country Profile describes examples of well-developed areas of the Republic of Seychelles (hereafter referred to as Seychelles) migration governance structures and areas with potential for further development,...

Migration Governance Profile: Kingdom of Eswatini

This country Profile describes examples of well-developed areas of the Kingdom of Eswatini ’s (hereafter referred to as Eswatini) migration governance structures and areas with potential for further development, a...