CES Work Plan to Improve International Migration Statistics

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CES Work Plan to Improve International Migration
Statistics

• Angela Me, Chief Social and Demographic
  Statistics Section

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Implications for the ECE-Eurostat Group on
International Migration

• Strong interest of the CES
• We need to deliver
• Output 1 - inventory
• Output 2 impact of different duration
  thresholds
• Output 3 - measurement of emigration through data
  exchange Almost finalized
• Bring to the attention of the work at global
  level
• Output 4 residency rules for short-term
  migrants
• Output 5 remittances harmonization of the
  concepts between BOP and international
  migration perspective (focus on individuals and
  households)

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Output 1

• Players UNECE (coordination), OECD (?), US,
  OTHERS????
• Objective To see how different countries define
  immigrant flows and stocks, to provide a
  comprehensive classification of migrant
  typologies and to compile practices used by
  countries to measure the difficult-to-measure
  migrants
• Activities
• Submit to countries a questionnaire
• Analyze the results
• Present the results at the next meeting and draw
  conclusions on best practices

Agreement of this meeting?
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Output 2

• Players Australia and UNECE (coordination),
  Canada, UK, US, OTHERS????
• Objective To study the impact of different
  resident duration thresholds on the estimates of
  inflows, outflows and net migration
• Activities
• Develop a common protocol for analysis (based on
  outputs so that it can be used with different
  sources)
• Impact of different concepts of duration? Actual,
  intended, over what period of time (Patricks
  paper)
• Impact of different thresholds
• Feasibility of measuring different thresholds
• Coordinate the different countries
  implementation of the analysis
• Prepare a summary report for the next meeting

Agreement of this meeting?
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Output 3

• Almost finalized
• To add to the Guidelines
• A summary of the results obtained by each team
• A table with pros and cons of the different
  methods that could be used to measure emigration
  (to understand where the receiving countries data
  could fit)
• Under what conditions receiving countries data
  can be used
• Guidelines to establishing bilateral agreements

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Missing

• Training for CIS and SEE countries
• SPECA Project is a beginning

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MEDSTAT

• Could Medstat have a role in the work towards the
  achievements of the three outputs?
• Medstat in our future meetings/activities?

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UNSD

• The concerns of our region brought to the
  attention of the work at global level
• - difficulty in estimating emigration
• data exchanges
• harmonization of BOP and household surveys
  concepts
• - the role of the next census round in measuring
  migration
• ever resided abroad
• naturalization and double citizenships
• country of birth of parents
• - need to carry out feasibility and validity
  studies of emigration census modules
• - residency rules for short term migrants
• Support coming from the experience of this
  region
• - establishments of working groups?

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UNSD.The Role of the UN Recommendations on
Migration Statistics?

• OECD not comparable the long-term migrants based
  on the UN definition (but at EU level there is
  more hope)
• New categorization of migrants?
• It does not include definitions of some important
  typologies such as circular migrants
• An handbook to operationalize the old UN
  Recommendations?

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UN Recommendations on Migration Statistics

• The main objective is to provide common
  definitions
• Distinguish long-term migrants and migrants with
  long term permits?

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Duration of stay/Status

• Complementary concepts
• Both relevant for policy purposes
• Duration-based definition relevant for planning
  services, population estimates (in principle
  focused on the natural migration)
• Status relevant for planning migration flows and
  rights-based programmes (focused on the
  expected migration)
• It is important to use two different
  terminologies

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Passenger cards

• Lessons learnt
• Expected duration is different from actual
  duration
• Actual duration data by type and duration of
  permit?
• Frequent resident and non-resident travellers to
  explain some of the inconsistencies?