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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...

Migration data relevant for the COVID-19 pandemic

Migrants – particularly in lower paid jobs – may be both more affected by and vulnerable to the spread of COVID-19 in countries already impacted and those countries where the pandemic is spreading, but migrants al...
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International migration flows

Migration flows data capture the number of migrants entering and leaving (inflow and outflow) a country over the course of a specific period, such as one year (UN SD, 2017). Data on migration flows are essential f...
Migrant Stock UN DESA 2019

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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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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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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Specialized migration surveys: 6 regional examples improving research

(This is Part 2 of a blog on household and specialized surveys for collecting migration data. Part 1, which focuses on household surveys, is available here.)
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Household surveys: A key potential source of data on migration

For most countries in the world, the most common existing data sources to collect data on international migration are population censuses and other traditional sources such as administrative records.  Dr. Ric...

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Videos

TALKING MIGRATION DATA: What do we know about data on environmental migration?

Disaster displacement forces millions of people away from their homes every year. Many more move in the context of environmental changes. Estimating the number of people affected remains a challenge for the intern...

TALKING MIGRATION DATA: Mexico-US migration: What can data tell us?

Douglas Massey, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University, shares his views on data and migration between the US and Mexico. This interview took place during first International Forum on Mi...

TALKING MIGRATION DATA: Data and the Global Compact for Migration (GCM)

Gregory Maniatis, Program Director at Open Society Foundations, shares his views on data and the negotiations for a global compact for migration. Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this video are th...

TALKING MIGRATION DATA: Using big data to understand migration (Part 3)

Alessandro Sorichetta, principal Research Fellow at the WorldPop Programme, shares his views on the use of big data to understand migration. This interview took place during the workshop "Big Data and alternative ...

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