United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Statistical Division

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Statistical Division UNECE Clearinghouse on migration statistics Paolo Valente and Ayima Okeeva, UNECE-UNFPA Workshop on Migration Statistics Antalya, 26 -27 October 2011

Objective of clearinghouse: Facilitate exchange and dissemination of basic, core, aggregate data on international migration for CIS countries 09 September 2020 UNECE Statistical Division Slide 2

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 09 September 2020 UNECE Statistical Division Slide 3

Background and history (cont. ) 2010: UN Development Account Project on migration – Objectives include: v v Improving migration data quality Promoting exchange and dissemination of migration data Feb. 2010: Workshop in Bishkek (CIS countries) v 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 v Technical aspects: UNECE DB infrastructure; data transmission using Excel files v 09 September 2020 UNECE Statistical Division Slide 4

Progress since Dec. 2010 v v v 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 09 September 2020 UNECE Statistical Division Slide 5

Homepage - List of tables 09 September 2020 UNECE Statistical Division Slide 6

List of tables (1) 11 Tables including data of stocks and flows, by longterm and short-term migration, for 2009, 2010 and 2011: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Population by country of birth, age and sex (stocks) Population by citizenship, age and sex (stocks) Long-term immigration by country of previous residence, age and sex (flows) Long-term emigration by countries of next residence, age and sex (flows) Long-term immigration by citizenship and sex (flows) Long-term emigration by citizenship and sex (flows) Citizenship acquisitions by country of previous citizenship and sex (flows) UNECE Statistical Division Slide 7

List of tables (2) Additional tables on short-term migration not yet available (still being processed): 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Population bycountry of birth, age and sex stocks) ( Population bycitizenship, age and sex stocks) ( Long-term immigration by country of previous residence, age and sex flows) ( Long-term emigration by countries of next residence, age and sex flows) ( Long-term immigration by citizenship and sexflows) ( Long-term emigration by citizenship and sexflows) ( Citizenship acquisitions by country of previous citizenship and sex (flows) 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) 8. UNECE Statistical Division Slide 8

Example of data query 09 September 2020 UNECE Statistical Division Slide 9

Selection of categories 09 September 2020 UNECE Statistical Division Slide 10

Output obtained 09 September 2020 UNECE Statistical Division Slide 11

Example of pivoting 09 September 2020 UNECE Statistical Division Slide 12

Demonstration of pivoting 09 September 2020 UNECE Statistical Division Slide 13

Result of pivoting 09 September 2020 UNECE Statistical Division Slide 14

Example of chart: Bar chart of foreign-born population by age and sex, Kazakhstan 2009 09 September 2020 UNECE Statistical Division Slide 15

Example of chart: Population pyramid of foreign-born population, Kazakhstan 2009 09 September 2020 UNECE Statistical Division Slide 16

Data export in many formats 09 September 2020 UNECE Statistical Division Slide 17

Primary data sources v Population census v Population register v Residence and exit permits v Data collected at the border v Surveys 09 September 2020 UNECE Statistical Division Slide 18

Data availability v v v 1 Data 2 available only from 2002. Data available only from 2001. UNECE Statistical Division 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 shortterm migration. 2 countries (Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) did not provide any data. Slide 19

Data availability v v 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 shortterm migration (exception: Moldova fully provided data on short-term immigration). 09 September 2020 UNECE Statistical Division Slide 20

Problems and challenges v v v v 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; 09 September 2020 UNECE Statistical Division Slide 21

Долгосрочная иммиграция по странам гражданства и полу Long-term immigration by citizenship and sex Всего, оба пола/Total both sexes Всего, мужчины/ Total men Всего женщины/ Total women 92583 35690 56893 4358513 2055299 2303214 Всего иностранных граждан/ Total foreigners 8058 4048 4010 Всего лиц без гражданства/ Total stateless 4961 2406 2555 3 0 3 Страна гражданства/ Country of citizenship Всего прибывших/ Total inflow Всего граждан страны/ Total nationals Неизвестно/ Unknown 9/9/2020 UNECE Statistical Division Slide 22

Outcomes and opportunities v v 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. 09 September 2020 UNECE Statistical Division Slide 23

Next steps: v Discussing specific data problems/issues with indvidual countries/focal points; v Making the Clearinghouse public; v Promoting the Clearinghouse in cooperation with NSI; v Receiving from countries new/updated data; v Review and improve questionnaire; v Organize next data collection (tentatively summer 2012? ) v UNECE/Eurostat Work Session September 2012. 09 September 2020 UNECE Statistical Division Slide 24