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Measuring Emigration Through Immigration Data: Report and Findings

Explore a joint UN report on measuring emigration through immigration data of receiving countries, including pilot projects, data exchange templates, and general findings. Learn about challenges, conclusions, and guidelines for using international migration statistics effectively.

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Measuring Emigration Through Immigration Data: Report and Findings

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  1. Measuring Emigration Through Immigration Data of Receiving CountriesReport of the Data Exchange Exercise Marcel HeinigerJoint UNECE/Eurostat Work Session on Migration Statistics, Edinburgh, 20-22 November 2006

  2. Outline of Presentation • 1. The Premise and the Objectives • 2. The Pilot Project • 3. The Data Exchange Exercise • 4. Some General Findings • 5. The Conclusions

  3. Premise • A migration across national borders is recorded twice. • People who leave a country are difficult to count in the country of origin because of their absence. • Immigration statistics of another country are a promising potential source for a country’s statistics on its outflows. • 4. Using another country’s emigration data is a cheap and efficient way of filling gaps in national migration statistics.

  4. Objectives • ▪ To carry out a pilot project • ▪ To design a set of tables to allow the exchange of migration data • ▪ To assess the feasibility of using other countries’ data to address the needs of sending countries • ▪ To develop guidelines on how to measure emigrants through data on stocks and flows in host countries

  5. Pilot Project • 19 countries grouped into 4 clusters: • 1) (Albania), Italy, Switzerland, TFYR of Macedonia • 2) France, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom • 3) Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Italy, Norway, Poland, TFYR of Macedonia, United Kingdom, United States • 4) Estonia, Finland, (Georgia), Kazakhstan, Norway, Russia

  6. Data Exchange Templates • 1. Flow Data – 8 tables • 1.1 Immigration – 5 tables • data based on • ▪ residence one year ago • ▪ year of immigration • 1.2 Emigration – 3 tables • 2. Stock Data – 2 tables

  7. Data Exchange Templates • 1. Flow Data • Three definitions of migrant origin: • ▪ country of last residence • ▪ country of citizenship • ▪ country of birth • Stock Data • ▪ country of birth • ▪ country of current citizenship • ▪ country of citizenship at birth • ▪ country of birth of parents

  8. Distribution of Countries by Type of Migration Data

  9. Distribution of Countries by Type of Migration Data and Definition of Migrant Origin

  10. Distribution of Countries by Type of Migration Data and Type of Data Source

  11. Some General Findings (1) • For most countries is more difficult to collect information about emigration than immigration. • No country is currently in a position to produce statistics on a regular basis which cover emigration in all its complexity. • A universal standardized and harmonized terminology used in the collection of international migration statistics does still not exist.

  12. Some General Findings (2) • Country of citizenship and country of birth are not necessarily good proxy variables for country of last/next residence. • Data on inflows in the receiving country are not always more complete than the corresponding data on outflows from the sending country.

  13. Conclusions • Measuring and comparing migration movements of populations in different countries is a challenging task. • The conceptual, methodological and definitional problems and the corresponding lack of international comparability make the use of data from another country difficult - but not impossible. • Using immigration data of receiving countries will provide useful information for sending countries on their emigrants. The degree of usefulness depends on the quality of the country’s own emigration statistics.

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