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Global Compact for Migration
In the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, UN Member States agree on common goals in managing international migration in all its dimensions. The non-binding Compact encompasses 23 objectives (s...
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What population groups are affected by the crisis?
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Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics: Resolution adopted by the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), 24 July 2013
Available in all 6 UN languages, the United Nations' resolution to ensure basic fundamental principles in the development of official statistics is critical for those looking to develop a national statistic s...
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Monitoring the Situation of Children and Women for 20 Years
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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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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The SDGs: measuring whether migrants are being left behind
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What you need to know about the impact of environmental change on migration
The 2019 UN Climate Change Conference, known as COP (Conference of the Parties) 25, provided a welcomed opportunity to enhance the understanding of environmental change and migration. There are a growing number of...
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Forecasting the future of migration—many approaches, one commonality: uncertainty
Policymakers want to know what’s coming. Migration forecasts are not just in high demand, they are also difficult to navigate. Some approaches to discuss the future of migration require advanced knowledge of stati...
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5 salient facts about intra-regional migration in South America
Intra-regional migration in South America is a consolidated and long-standing South-South migration system that has undergone different phases. Although the search for better socioeconomic opportunities is recogni...
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Understanding public attitudes towards refugees with radio content analysis
Analysing public radio content in Uganda using speech-to-text technology to understand attitudes towards refugees
Applying innovative disclosure control techniques to census data
Modernizing statistical data dissemination in the UK 2021 census
Facebook’s Disease Prevention Maps: Using social media data to help “flatten the curve”
Facebook’s “Data for Good” initiative shares data with NGOs, research organisations, and the public to allow for a quick and targeted response to the Coronavirus pandemic
EU Commission’s COVID-19 Data Platform: Facilitating data sharing and analysis to accelerate research to “flatten the curve”
The EU Commission’s COVID-19 Data Platform is a collaborative portal to share vast amounts of data, datasets and studies in an organised and structured way
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TALKING MIGRATION DATA: Migration Data in West Africa: How much do we know?
Aderanti Adepoju, founder and coordinator at the Network of Migration Research on Africa, shares his views on the lack of migration data in Africa. This interview took place during first International Forum on Mig...
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TALKING MIGRATION DATA: Migration Data and the SDGs
Claire Melamed, Executive Director of the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data shares her views on migration data and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This interview took place during first...
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TALKING MIGRATION DATA: Using big data to understand migration (part 2)
Stefaan Verhulst, Co-Founder and Chief Research and Development Officer of The Governance Lab, shares his views on the use of big data to understand migration. This interview took place during the workshop "Big Da...
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TALKING MIGRATION DATA: Data on the migration of women
Marla Asis, Director of Research and Publications at the Scalabrini Migration Center, shares her views on data on the migration of women. This interview took place during the first International Forum on Migration...
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Afghan migrants by sex, mid-2020
Globally, an estimated 5.85 million Afghans lived outside their home country as of mid-year 2020. Female migrants accounted for nearly 45 per cent of all Afghan migrants, and this share is lower than the global av...
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Destination regions of Afghan migrants, mid-2020
Of the estimated 5.85 million Afghans who lived outside their home country as of mid-year 2020, nearly 74 per cent of them resided in neighbouring countries in Asia. Less than 11 per cent of all Afghan m...
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Main destination countries of Afghan migrants, mid-2020
Nearly 74 per cent of the estimated 5.85 million Afghan migrants resided in neighbouring countries in Southern Asia -- more than 46 per cent and 27 per cent resided in the Islamic Republic of Iran and Pa...
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Afghan Refugees and Undocumented Afghans
By the end of 2021, a total of 2.7 million refugees globally were from Afghanistan (UNHCR, 2022). Most of them were hosted in the Islamic Republic of Iran and Pakistan. ...
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Migration Governance Profiles
Perfil de Gobernanza de la Migración: Estados Unidos Mexicanos
En esta instantánea, se ofrecen ejemplos de ámbitos bien desarrollados en las estructuras de gobernanza de la migración de Estados Unidos Mexicanos (en adelante México), así como de otros ámbitos con potencial par...
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Migration Governance Profile: Republic of Sierra Leone
This country Profile describes examples of well-developed areas of the Republic of Sierra Leone’s (hereafter referred to as Sierra Leone) migration governance structures and areas with potential for further develo...
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Perfil de Gobernanza de la Migración: Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca
En esta instantánea, se ofrecen ejemplos de ámbitos bien desarrollados en las estructuras de gobernanza de la migración del Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca (en adelante, Oaxaca), así como de otros ámbitos con po...
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Perfil de Gobernanza de la Migración: Estado Libre y Soberano de Chihuahua
En esta instantánea, se ofrecen ejemplos de ámbitos bien desarrollados en las estructuras de gobernanza de la migración del Estado Libre y Soberano de Chihuahua (en adelante, Chihuahua), así como de otros ámbitos ...
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