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UNECE Clearinghouseon migration statistics

Paolo Valente and Ayima Okeeva, UNECE

UNECE-UNFPA Workshop on Migration Statistics Antalya, 26-27 October 2011

UNECE Statistical Division Slide 2April 20, 2023

Objective of clearinghouse:

Facilitate exchange and dissemination of basic, core, aggregate data on international migration for CIS countries


Background and history

2006: Data exchange exercise for preparation of Guidelines (19 countries in 4 clusters)

2007: Study on data exchange in 11 CIS countries, based on draft Guidelines

2009: Guidelines on exchanging data to improve emigration statistics, endorsed by CES:

a) Set of standard tables on stocks and flows for bilateral exchanges among countries

b) Setting up clearing house maintained by an Intl. Org. to facilitate sharing of data among countries


Background and history (cont.)

2010: UN Development Account Project on migration – Objectives include:

Improving migration data quality Promoting exchange and dissemination of migration data

Feb. 2010: Workshop in Bishkek (CIS countries) Preliminary set of tables on basic migration data by

country of origin, citizenship, previous/next residence

Dec. 2010: Workshop in Istanbul (CIS countries) Agreement to use revised version of Bishkek tables for

initial data collection Technical aspects: UNECE DB infrastructure; data

transmission using Excel files


Progress since Dec. 2010

Finalization of tables for data collection Collection of data from countries IT infrastructure created at UNECE Uploading of data Creation of output tables and internal testing Adjustments of selected tables


Homepage - List of tables

UNECE Statistical Division Slide 7

List of tables (1)

11 Tables including data of stocks and flows, by long-term and short-term migration, for 2009, 2010 and 2011:

1. Population by country of birth, age and sex (stocks)2. Population by citizenship, age and sex (stocks)3. Long-term immigration by country of previous residence,

age and sex (flows)4. Long-term emigration by countries of next residence, age

and sex (flows)5. Long-term immigration by citizenship and sex (flows)6. Long-term emigration by citizenship and sex (flows)7. Citizenship acquisitions by country of previous

citizenship and sex (flows)


List of tables (2)

Additional tables on short-term migration not yet available (still being processed):

1. Population by country of birth, age and sex (stocks)

2. Population by citizenship, age and sex (stocks)

3. Long-term immigration by country of previous residence, age and sex ( flows)

4. Long-term emigration by countries of next residence, age and sex ( flows)

5. Long-term immigration by citizenship and sex ( flows)

6. Long-term emigration by citizenship and sex ( flows)

7. Citizenship acquisitions by country of previous citizenship and sex (flows)

8. Short-term immigration by citizenship, reason for moving and sex (flows)

9. Short-term emigration by country of arrival, reason for moving and sex (flows)

10. Short-term immigration by citizenship, reason for moving and sex (stocks)

11. Short-term emigration by country of arrival, reason for moving and sex (stocks)


Example of data query


Selection of categories


Output obtained


Example of pivoting


Demonstration of pivoting


Result of pivoting


Example of chart: Bar chart of foreign-born population by age and sex, Kazakhstan 2009


Example of chart: Population pyramid of foreign-born population, Kazakhstan 2009


Data export in many formats


Primary data sources

Population census

Population register

Residence and exit permits

Data collected at the border

Surveys


Data availability

Tables 1-7:• good availability in

year 2009 (or before)• average availability in

year 2010• bad availability for

2011 Tables 8-11 (short-term):

• generally bad availability on short-term migration.

2 countries (Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) did not provide any data.

Reporting Country Year/Table T1 T2 T3 T4 T5 T6 T7 T8 T9 T10 T112001 f f f p f n n n n n n201020112009 p p n n f f f p n n n2010 n n n n f f f p n n n20112009 f f p p n n p p n p n2010 n n p p n n p p n p n2011 n n p p n n p n n p n

2009 f1 f1 f1 f1 f1 f1 f n n n n2010 n n n n n n f n n n n2011 n n n n n n f n n n n2009 f f f n f n n n n n n201020112009 f f f f f f f n n p p2010 n n f f f f p n n n n20112009 f f n f n f f f n f n2010 f f n f n f f f n f n2011 f f n f n f f f n f n2009 n n f f f f n p p n n2010 n n f f f f p p p n n20112009 n p f f n n n p p n p2010 n n f f n n n p p n p

2011

2009 p2 p2 n n n n f n n n n2010 n n n n n n f n n n n20112009 6 6 6 5 6 5 5 1 0 1 02010 1 1 3 4 3 4 4 1 0 1 02011 1 1 0 1 0 1 2 1 0 1 0

Sums (Fully)

Tajikistan

Ukraine

Kazakhstan

Kyrgyzstan

Republic of Moldova

Russian Federation

Armenia

Azerbaijan

Belarus

Georgia

1 Data available only from 2002.

2 Data available only from 2001.


Data availability

Biggest amount of data available for tables 1 and 2 in 2009 mostly data from censuses.

Tables 3 to 6 (long-term migration) available in up to 6 out of 12 countries in 2009 and 2010, lack of data for 2011.

Data on aquired citizenships fully available for 5 out of 12 countries in 2009 and for 4 out of 12 in 2010.

Almost no fully filled tables on short-term migration (exception: Moldova fully provided data on short-term immigration).

Reporting Country Year/Table T1 T2 T3 T4 T5 T6 T7 T8 T9 T10 T112001 f f f p f n n n n n n201020112009 p p n n f f f p n n n2010 n n n n f f f p n n n20112009 f f p p n n p p n p n2010 n n p p n n p p n p n2011 n n p p n n p n n p n

2009 f1 f1 f1 f1 f1 f1 f n n n n2010 n n n n n n f n n n n2011 n n n n n n f n n n n2009 f f f n f n n n n n n201020112009 f f f f f f f n n p p2010 n n f f f f p n n n n20112009 f f n f n f f f n f n2010 f f n f n f f f n f n2011 f f n f n f f f n f n2009 n n f f f f n p p n n2010 n n f f f f p p p n n20112009 n p f f n n n p p n p2010 n n f f n n n p p n p

2011

2009 p2 p2 n n n n f n n n n2010 n n n n n n f n n n n20112009 6 6 6 5 6 5 5 1 0 1 02010 1 1 3 4 3 4 4 1 0 1 02011 1 1 0 1 0 1 2 1 0 1 0

Sums (Fully)

Tajikistan

Ukraine

Kazakhstan

Kyrgyzstan

Republic of Moldova

Russian Federation

Armenia

Azerbaijan

Belarus

Georgia


Problems and challenges

Some countries changing the formats of the tables; Some data could not be provided by the countries because it

does not support the table format; Sometimes sums of age groups and/or sums of gender groups

do not reflect the total numbers indicated; Missing data: not available but relevant? / available but not

provided; Stock data vs. Flow data sometimes misleading; Data source not always indicated; Very often, the disaggregated numbers by countries were given

but the total numbers (e.g. total number of immigrants) are missing and were calculated upon the receipt of the tables;

UNECE Statistical Division Slide 2204/20/23

Страна гражданства/Country of citizenship

Всего, оба пола/Total both

sexes

Всего, мужчины/Total men

Всего женщины/

Total women

Всего прибывших/ Total inflow 92583 35690 56893

Всего граждан страны/ Total nationals 4358513 2055299 2303214

Всего иностранных граждан/ Total foreigners

8058 4048 4010

Всего лиц без гражданства/ Total stateless

4961 2406 2555

Неизвестно/ Unknown 3 0 3

Долгосрочная иммиграция по странам гражданства и полу

Long-term immigration by citizenship and sex


Outcomes and opportunities

Continuous joint work and cooperation of all relevant (national statistical offices, ministries and other state institutions) agencies on the national level.

Drawing capacities and institutional actors on national and international levels.


Next steps:

Discussing specific data problems/issues with indvidual

countries/focal points;

Making the Clearinghouse public;

Promoting the Clearinghouse in cooperation with NSI;

Receiving from countries new/updated data;

Review and improve questionnaire;

Organize next data collection (tentatively summer 2012?)

UNECE/Eurostat Work Session September 2012.

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