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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development consists of a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets. Migration is specifically referenced in seven of the SDGs and is also a cross-cut...
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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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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development recognizes for the first time the contribution of migration to sustainable development. Migration is a cross-cutting issue, relevant to all of the Su...
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UN Handbook on Measuring International Migration through Population Censuses

This handbook explores how population censuses can be manipulated in order to extract international migration figures. There are not only sections that present relevant definitions needed to harmonise migratory da...
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Migration-related Indicators: Tracking progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals and the Seventh National Five-Year Plan (7FYP) - Policy Brief

The objectives of the study were to review, compare, compile and propose migration-related indicators of the SDGs and the 7FYP (Seventh National Five-Year Plan) goals, so that progress against set targets can be m...
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Standard Questions on International Migration: Guidance note for the use in population censuses and household surveys

This note provides guidance for improving the quality and comparability of international migration statistics collected through national population censuses and household surveys. It was prepared on the basis of a...
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Technical paper: Development, validation and testing of a methodology for SDG indicator 10.7.2 on migration policies

This paper presents an overview of the development of a methodology for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicator 10.7.2 on the number of countries with migration policies to facilitate orderly, safe, regular a...
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SDG goals

The SDGs: measuring whether migrants are being left behind

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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...
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Leaving no one behind — Disaggregating census data by migration status through IPUMS

The 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda calls for United Nations (UN) Member States to “leave no one behind” as they work toward meeting targets in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To ensure that migrants...
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What is needed for effective SDG monitoring?

Marcela Cerutti, Researcher at the Centre for Population Studies (CENEP) explains what is needed in order to monitor the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) effectively.  
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3 years of the Migration Data Portal

The #MigrationDataPortal celebrates its 3rd anniversary today!
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TALKING MIGRATION DATA: Migration data for global processes

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Tier classification for SDG indicators

Source: 2018, United Nations Statistical Commission, Inter-agency Expert Group on SDG Indicators Tier Classification for SDG indicators (Updated: 15 October 2018)
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5 Key Global Trends on COVID-19 and Migration

More than a year after the emergence of COVID-19, we look at five ways the pandemic has affected migrants around the world. 
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Are migrants left behind? How COVID-19 hinders better migration data

Migrants worldwide play an important role in sectors vital to addressing the COVID-19 pandemic but are also exposed to higher risks of contracting the virus. Collecting, analyzing and using data on migrants has be...
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Data Responsibility

Ensuring data responsibility within the Humanitarian sector

As humanitarians collect more data to inform their operations, it is increasingly within their moral, ethical and legal obligations to ensure they put the necessary data handling safeguards in place.  Data Re...
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Key COVID-19 migration trends

One year ago, on 11 March 2020, COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic! How has the pandemic affected international mobility?
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Venezuela emigration

5 key data visualizations on COVID-19's impact on Venezuelan refugees and migrants

As of 5 February 2021, there were approximately 5.48 million refugees and migrants from the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in the world  (R4V, 2021) Most of them (around 80 %) reside in countries in Latin A...
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Estimating irregular migration in the Russian Federation

Olga Chudinovskin, Professor at the Moscow State University, explains how her research tries to estimate irregular migration in the Russian Federation.
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Data on the mobility of Chinese students

Xiaoxiao Chen, Researcher at the Center for China and Globalization explains what data exist on the mobility of Chinese students.
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What is needed for effective SDG monitoring?

Marcela Cerutti, Researcher at the Centre for Population Studies (CENEP) explains what is needed in order to monitor the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) effectively.  
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Measuring migration with big data and innovative data sources

Emilio Zagheni, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, explains how big data and innovative data sources can contribute to measuring migration.  
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Addressing migrants´ vulnerability will be key to recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted two important aspects of migration in West and North Africa and across the Mediterranean. The first is that many migrants from these regions face specific vulnerabilities duri...
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Immigration & emigration statistics

What is needed for effective SDG monitoring?
Marcela Cerrutti | 1 Feb 2021

Immigration & emigration statistics

3 years of the Migration Data Portal
The Global Migration Data Analysis Centre | 15 Dec 2020

Migration & development

SDG goals
The SDGs: measuring whether migrants are being left behind
Elisa Mosler Vidal | 7 May 2020
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