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About IOM data

Through a large footprint of offices worldwide, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) collects and reports...

Data Bulletin 4: Improving Data for safe, orderly and regular migration

This issue summarizes the main sources of migration statistics and explains some of the data demands countries are...

Data Bulletin 5: Big data and migration: How big data innovation can serve migration policymaking

What is the potential of new data sources, such as mobile phones, social media and satellite imagery, to improve...

Data Bulletin 2: More Than Numbers: The value of migration data

This issue highlights that, while migration data are gaining traction on the international development agenda, as both...

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Big data, migration and human mobility

The term "big data" includes anonymized data that are generated by users of mobile devices, internet-based platforms, or by digital sensors and meters, for example, satellite imagery. With about 5.16 billion uniqu...
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Data protection and migration

Migration and data protection

Data protection in the migration context has become increasingly relevant given the growing need for more reliable statistics, comprehensive and timely data, and the emergence of new technologies. The incidences o...
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Migration data relevant for the COVID-19 pandemic

Migrants – particularly in lower paid jobs and in irregular situations – may be both more affected by and vulnerable to the spread of COVID-19, but migrants also play an important role in the response to COVID-19 ...
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Migration data sources

The demands for migration data arising from the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development have prompted the international statistical community to review the use of traditional sources for migration data, such as po...
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Building Migration Data Capacity: Examples of Good Practices for the African Region

Building Migration Data Capacity: Examples of Good Practices for the African Region

Central Mediterranean Route Thematic Report Series, Issue No. 3 This report reviews good practices in migration data capacity-building by looking at recent efforts by international organizations to enhance...
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UNESCAP Stats Brief

Can mobile phone data be used for official statistics? Asia and the Pacific say yes.

This paper presents outcomes from a Regional Workshop on the Use of Mobile Phone Data for Official Statistics, hosted by BPS Indonesia in conjunction with UN ESCAP, UN DESA, Pulse Lab Jakarta and the UN Globa...
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Migration data on the Central Mediterranean Route: What do we know?

Migration data on the Central Mediterranean Route: What do we know?

GMDAC briefing series: Towards safer migration in Africa: Migration data in Northern and Western Africa While migration topics in Northern and Western Africa are in the political spotlight, relevant data on mig...
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A Framework For The Ethical Use Of Advanced Data Science Methods In The Humanitarian Sector

A Framework For The Ethical Use Of Advanced Data Science Methods In The Humanitarian Sector

This is a framework for applying data science methods for humanitarian outcomes. It aims to provide a set of ethical and practical guidelines for humanitarian data collectors, users, and stakeholders to consider w...
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Migration Data and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Introduction The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development recognizes for the first time the contribution of migration to sustainable development. Migration is a cross-cutting issue in the 2030 Agenda, ...
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SDG 17: PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE GOALS

What do we know?   Source: Migration for development, 2023   Migration-relevant SDG targets and indicators:   Indicators below are classified by the IAEG-SDGs into three tiers&...
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SDG 3: GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING

What do we know? Migration-relevant SDG targets and indicators: All indicators are classified by the IAEG-SDGs into three tiers based on their level of methodological development and the availability of data...
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SDG 2: KEIN HUNGER

What do we know?   Migration-relevant SDG targets and indicators: All indicators are classified by the IAEG-SDGs into three tiers                 bas...
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5 recommendations to improve data for safe, orderly and regular migration

It is widely acknowledged that there is a paucity of basic data on international migration and that existing data are not fully utilized or shared. On many occasions, the UN General Assembly has called for reliabl...
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Data collaboratives in West Africa

Designing Data Collaboratives to Better Understand Human Mobility and Migration in West Africa

(This article was published originally on the 12th of August 2021 on the Big Data for Migration Alliance's blog.)  
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Migration Data in Asia and the Pacific - Launch Event

Introducing IOM’s Asia-Pacific Regional Data Hub (RDH), key findings from a new Regional Secondary Data Review (RSDR) and new sub-regional migration data overviews. The event was held online on Monday, 10 May 2...
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Improving data on migration in Africa: Expert voices

For 17 per cent of countries in Africa, the most recent data available from censuses referred to years prior to 2005. Only four in ten countries in Africa can provide data on the age of international migrants. ...
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Skills Mapping Through Big Data: A case study of Armenian diaspora in the United States of America and France

Using big data to map concentrations of diaspora worldwide.
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Yahoo! log-in information: An innovative data source used to map global migration movements

Mapping global migration movements by analysing geolocated log-in data of Yahoo!’s web services
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"You are where you e-mail": Discovering global migration trends using e-mail data

This study estimates age- and gender-specific migration rates using data extracted from a large sample of Yahoo! e-mail messages
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Nowcasting daily population displacement in Ukraine through social media advertising data

This study uses real-time social media data to assess population displacement in response to the war Ukraine. 

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TALKING MIGRATION DATA: Migration Data and the SDGs

Claire Melamed, Executive Director of the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data shares her views on migration data and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This interview took place during first...
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TALKING MIGRATION DATA: Data from population censuses

Sabrina Juran, Technical Specialist for Data and Research at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), shares her views on the benefits and limitations of data from population censuses.
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TALKING MIGRATION DATA: Using big data to understand migration (part 2)

Stefaan Verhulst, Co-Founder and Chief Research and Development Officer of The Governance Lab, shares his views on the use of big data to understand migration. This interview took place during the workshop "Big Da...
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TALKING MIGRATION DATA: Using big data to understand migration (part 1)

Ingmar Weber, Research Director at Qatar Computing Research Institute, shares his views on the use of big data to understand migration. This interview took place during the workshop "Big Data and alternative da...
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Migration in Middle Africa

Migration in Middle Africa

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IOM’s Missing Migrants Project

Data on deaths of migrants compiled by IOM´s Global Migration Data Analysis Center All numbers are estimates. Arrivals based on data from respective governments and IOM field offices.
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IOM’s Missing Migrants Project

Data on deaths of migrants compiled by IOM´s Global Migration Data Analysis Center All numbers are estimates. Arrivals based on data from respective governments and IOM field offices.
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Migration in Western Africa

Migration in Western Africa

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Migration Governance Profiles

Profil de gouvernance de la migration: Royaume du Maroc

Ce profil décrit les points forts et les aspects à développer des structures de gouvernance des migrations du Royaume du Maroc, sur la base des six domaines du cadre de gouvernance des migrations (MiGOF). Ceux-ci ...
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Indicadores de Gobernanza de la Migración (IGM)

En 2015, la Organización Internacional para las Migraciones (OIM) desarrolló un Marco de Gobernanza de la Migración (MiGOF) para ayudar a los Estados a definir los elementos esenciales que constituyen la base nece...
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About the Migration Governance Indicators

In 2015, IOM developed a Migration Governance Framework (MiGOF) to help define what “well-managed migration policy” might look like at the national level. The MiGOF was welcomed by IOM’s Member States the sam...
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Migration Governance Indicators: Ukraine Second Profile (2021)

This country Profile describes examples of well-developed areas of the Ukraine  governance structures and areas with potential for further development, as evaluated through the six domains of the Migration Go...
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Migration data in Middle Africa

The nine countries that make up Middle Africa1– Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guin...
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Migration data in Western Africa

Western Africa1 has long been characterized by high levels of mobility, a trend that far predates the current configuration of borders established during the colonial era.  An estimated 7.6 million internatio...
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Migration data in Europe

A wide range of migration data is collected and disseminated in Europe at national and, sometimes, subnational level. Institutional and legal frameworks have been developed by the European Union (EU) with the aim ...
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Migration data in South-eastern Asia

South-eastern Asia has, since historic times, been defined by large-scale population movements. Stretching over 11 countries – Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia...
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Towards the Finish Line: What data tells us about migrants’ needs and contributions to the SDGs
Marina Manke, PhD and Jorge Galindo | 20 Sep 2023

Migration & development

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Disaggregating SDG Data by Migration Status: The Swiss experience
Johanna Probst and Sophie Caseldine | 15 Sep 2023

Migration & development

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Disaggregating SDG Data by Migration Status: The South African experience
I. Ntsieni, D. Iturralde and S. Caseldine | 15 Sep 2023

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