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International migrant stocks
International migrant stocks are estimates of "the total number of international migrants present in a given country at a particular point in time" (UN SD, 2017: 9). United Nations (UN) data on these sto...
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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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Remittances
Remittances, usually understood as the money or goods that migrants send back to families and friends in origin countries, are often the most direct and well-known link between migration and development. Remittanc...
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Are population censuses in Asia and the Pacific evolving?
The population census is among the most complex and massive exercises a nation undertakes, requiring comprehensive planning, immense resourcing, attentive implementation, and systematic collaboration on a national...
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Handbook on Management and Organization of National Statistical Systems
The rapidly changing environment within which national statistical systems and national statistical organizations (NSOs) operate highlight the importance of the need to transform and modernise so that these data s...
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Climate change and human mobility
Global human mobility in the context of climate change and associated environmental degradation and disasters has become a subject of high-level political interest. There is strong demand for evidence-based quanti...
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COVID-19 Analytical Snapshot #2: Modern mobility systems and pandemics
The "COVID-19 Analytical Snapshot #2 Modern mobility systems and pandemics" is designed to capture the latest information and analysis of modern mobility systems in a fast-moving environment. ...
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Migration Statistics: Let's Make Better Use of Existing Data
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Who wants or cares to know? The quest for good data
High-quality data are essential for designing effective public policies, but also depend on the statistical capacities of national statistical offices (NSOs). José Antonio Mejía, Lead Specialist in Modernization o...
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Global refugee resettlement: What do the statistics tell us?
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