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Task Force on the Socioeconomic Conditions of Migrants: Progress Report for UNECE/Eurostat Session on Migration Statisti

This progress report provides an overview of the Task Force's work on understanding the socioeconomic conditions of migrants. It includes information on the background, methodological objectives, membership, and other relevant initiatives. The report also highlights the demographic, education, and social civic dimensions of migrants and identifies the challenges and next steps in this research area.

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Task Force on the Socioeconomic Conditions of Migrants: Progress Report for UNECE/Eurostat Session on Migration Statisti

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  1. UNECE Task Force on the Socioeconomic Conditions of Migrants Progress report prepared for the UNECE/Eurostat Session on Migration Statistics Geneva, 17-19 October 2012

  2. Overview • Background • Methodological Objectives • Membership • Other Relevant Initiatives • Task Force Framework • A Longitudinal Approach • Two Migrant Groups • Six Socio-Economic Dimensions • Examples • Demographic dimension • Education dimension • Social civic dimension • Challenges • Next steps

  3. Background The problem: • Despite the growing phenomenon of international migration, there is still much that we don’t know. What is needed: • Identify and understand the most relevant socio-economic issues on migrants • Robust statistical information on the socio-economic characteristics of migrants

  4. Membership Countries • Canada (Chair) • Australia • Denmark • Estonia • Ireland • Italy • Netherlands • Norway • Palestine • Spain • Turkey • United Kingdom • United States International Organizations • OECD • European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) • Eurostat • UNECE

  5. Methodological Objectives Measurement on the different dimensions Improve availability, quality and comparability of data

  6. Other relevant initiatives • Mainstreaming of migration statistics • Zaragoza Pilot Study • Suitland Working Group

  7. Reasons for the time perspective in understanding migrant groups • Migrants’ socioeconomic conditions are influenced by their characteristics at arrival and the period in which they arrive, and tend to change with duration in the country • Different data type – Different implications on research questions, analytic methods and indicators. • Cross-sectional data: • Characteristics at the time of data collection, e.g., age, year since migration, generation • Time series trends • Synthetic cohort method • Retrospective questions that portray life history • Longitudinal data: • Longitudinal trends • Pathway analysis

  8. Migrant groups The work of the Task Force has focused on two migrant groups Second Generation Foreign-born

  9. Socio-economic dimensions • Focus: • Demographic • Education • Social and civic engagement • Labour market • Economic • Potential to include: • Health

  10. Demographic dimension • Fundamental in understanding migrant groups: • It is about the attributes of a given migrant group • For example, the comparison of the composition and distribution of the migrant population with that of the non-migrant population in the host country • Highlight over time whether demographic characteristics or behaviour converge with host country nationals and identify the factors for the convergence and dissimilarity • Demographic factors to consider when comparing the socioeconomic conditions across migrants groups (e.g., comparing migrant youth with non-migrant youth, etc)

  11. Demographic indicators • Proposed indicators: • Individual characteristics at the time of data collection, e.g., age, gender, citizenship, place of birth, location of usual residence, year since migration, marital status • Fertility rates • Household and family composition • Admissions categories and legal entitlements • eligible to work or receive social welfare benefits • visa type • Efficiency of host country’s language • General health

  12. Education dimension

  13. Education indicators for foreign-born

  14. Education indicators for second generation

  15. Social and Civic dimension

  16. Social and Civic indicators for foreign-born

  17. Social and Civic indicators for second generation

  18. Challenges • Higher non-response due to the transient nature of the population • Methods of collection • Limitations to the size and distribution of the immigrant/second generation population • Limited information on details to further distinguish migrant groups • Asking longitudinal research questions • Availability of longitudinal data

  19. What are the next steps? • Data needs • Fall 2012: Continue to identify the relevant issues and indicators for the other socio-economic dimensions (labour market, economic, health) • Data availability/quality • Fall 2012: Review existing sources (censuses, household survey, population registry, administrative database) and their suitability to provide relevant data • Winter 2013: Share practices and write guidelines to countries intending to produce statistics on socio-economic conditions of migrants using existing data sources.

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