Improving Migration Data - Migrants Count

Summary

Date: 23 February 2010

Despite the well-evidenced breadth and impact of human mobility, many countries do not collect, publish or standardize detailed data on migrants or do so only in a very limited way. Recognizing these shortcomings, in 2008 the Center for Global Development, with the financial support of MacArthur Foundation, convened a group of international experts from academia, UN agencies and other international organizations, asking them to specify practical and politically feasible actions to expand the quantity and quality of migration data. The result is the internationally received report of the Commission on International Migration Data for Development Policy and Research entitled "Migrants Count – Five Steps for Better Migration Data".

This briefing discussed the report’s five recommendations on how countries, international organizations, and the research community can significantly improve international migration data in the short run. Find the discussions' summary report here.

Presentations

Five Next Steps To Better Migration Data

Mr. Michal Clemens, Project Director, Center for Global Development

Migrants Count - Five Steps Toward better Migration Data: How the Report of the Commission Supports Implementation of the Global Migration Agenda

Mr. Bela Hovy, Chief Migration Section, Population Division, UN DESA

Migration Data in Mexico

Mr. Jose Antonio Mejia, Vice President of the Mexican National Institute for Statistics and Geography (INEGI)

Additional Information

Information note on the panel (pdf)

Agenda (pdf)

Working language: English

Contact: Valeska Hesse

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