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Population, Family and Community

This meeting in 2008 focused on the synthesis of papers addressing key issues like population estimation, migration trends, and family structures. Discussions highlighted measurement challenges, legal and illegal migration impacts, definitions of family units, and the importance of accurate classification systems. The evolving complexities of society, including blended families and migration's impact on local administrative units, underscored the need for improved data collection methods and privacy considerations.

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Population, Family and Community

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  1. Population, Family and Community UN Expert Group Meeting Sept 9-12 2008 Siobhan Carey Assistant Director General Social and Demographic Statistics Central Statistics Office, Ireland

  2. Content • Synthesis of 3 papers • Common threads • Issues for future consideration

  3. Population • Israel • Estimation of size of population and distribution • Combination of traditional census and population register • Population Register has good properties

  4. Sets out some of the measurement issues, and the problems associated with making international classifications relevant and appropriate - nomadic populations - boundaries - ethnicity classifications

  5. Migration • Commonwealth of Independent States • Immigration and emmigration • Importance for BoP, tax revenue, remittances • Census and Administrative records – arrivals and departures • Permanent/temporary migrants • Illegal migrants

  6. Family and Community • Jamaica • Defintions and concepts – need to reflect social and legal structures • Units of analysis – families, households (complex formulations) • marital or union status ? Relevance for policy formulation ? (child development )

  7. Common threads • Difficulties in measurement Population: definitions, undercounting, overcounting, avoidance of counting, Migration: legal and illegal migration, remittances, temporary and permanent migrants, change of status – work/study Classifications and their relevance: reflect reality?

  8. Common threads • Timeliness – ability to update • Administrative data – availability and accuracy • Eg in the absence of vital registration • Open borders • Ability to cope with change – boundaries at state level and within state, legal structures • Differences in meaning – urban?

  9. Issues • Life is becoming more complex • Migration – eg – child benefit payments - labour mobility • Social strctures - blended families - same sex relationships/marriages - creation new states

  10. Issues • Potential of administrative records • Issues of privacy and confidentiality • Focus on lower levels of disaggregation • Eg Impact of migration on local administrative units • Differences in local reality makes relevance of international classifications questionable (ethnicity, legal family structures, children)

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