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Overview

United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) is organizing an Expert Group Meeting on Improving Migration Data in the Context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. The meeting will take place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, from 1-3 July 2019.

The main objectives of the Expert Group Meeting are to: (a) review the draft Technical Report on Measuring Migration-relevant SDG Indicators; (b) discuss the revision of the 1998 United Nations Recommendations on Statistics of International Migration, in particular the technical material developed by the Group’s task forces and agree on the outline and next steps/timeline for the revision; and (c) discuss a roadmap on improving national capacities on statistics on international migration, leading to a draft global programme on migration statistics.

Main documents

Monday, 1 July 2019

 09:00 – 09:30
Registration
 10:00 – 10:15
1. Opening


  • Diego Iturralde, Co-chair of the United Nations Expert Group on Migration Statistics, Statistics South Africa

  • Frank Laczko, Co-chair of the United Nations Expert Group on Migration Statistics, GMDAC, International Organisation for Migration

  • Introduction of the meeting – agenda
    Francesca Grum, Social and Gender Statistics Section, UNSD
 10:15 – 12:15
2. The revision of the 1998 United Nations Recommendations on Statistics of International Migration

  • Revision of the 1998 Recommendations – why and what? (ESA/STAT/AC.368/1)
    Haoyi Chen, Social and Gender Statistics Section, UNSD


  • Big data and how would it figure in the revision
    Marzia Rango, IOM

  • Challenges in Migration Data Dissemination and Communication
    Marcel Heiniger, Federal Statistical Office, Switzerland
 12:15 – 13:00
3. The need for and uses of statistics on international migration


  • The need for and uses of statistics on international migration: the Canadian experience
    Hélène Maheux, Mélanie Meunier, Statistics Canada, Canada

  • The Need for and Uses of Statistics on International Migration
    Karima Belhaj, High Commission for Planning, Morocco

  • Using administrative sources to compile data for migration-relevant SDG indicators
    Patchaya Laosutsaen, National Statistical Office, Thailand

 15:00 – 18:00
3. The need for and uses of statistics on international migration (cont.)

Tuesday, 2 July 2019

 10:00 – 13:00
4. Concepts and definitions related to international migration

  • Task Force 2 on key Concepts and definitions of migration
    Giampaolo Lanzieri, Meryem Demirci, Co-chair of Task Force 2

  • Indonesia’s Experience on International Migration Statistics
    Winida Albertha, BPS-Statistics Indonesia, Indonesia

  • Concepts and Definitions Related to International Migration
    Edgar Guerrero Centeno, INEGI; Graciela Martinez Caballero, Unidad de Politica Migratoria, SEGOB, Mexico

  • Transforming UK migration statistics: Concepts and definitions
    Becca Briggs, Centre for International Migration, ONS, United Kingdom

 15:00 – 16:00
4. Concepts and definitions related to international migration (cont.)
 16:00 – 18:00
5. The Global Programme on Migration Statistics

  • A Framework for the Global Programme on Migration Statistics
    Francesca Grum, Social and Gender Statistics Section, UNSD

  • Providing training through a network of universities
    Peter Lennie, Worldwide University Network

  • Global Programme for Migration Data - Ecuadorian perspective
    Jose Carlos Andrade Santacruz, National Institute of Statistics and Census, Ecuador

  • Item 5. The Global Programme on Migration Statistics
    Valentina Istrati, National Bureau of statistics, Republic of Moldova


  • International Forum on Migration Statistics
    Frank Laczko, GMDAC, International Organisation for Migration

  • Migration Multi-Partner Trust Fund
    Bela Hovy, UN Population Division

Wednesday, 3 July 2019

 10:00 – 12:00
6. Technical Report on Measuring Migration-relevant SDG indicators

  • Haoyi Chen, Social and Gender Statistics Section, UNSD
 12:00 – 13:00
7. Ongoing/planned initiatives on statistics of international migration

  • Valentina Istrati, National Bureau of statistics, Republic of Moldova


  • Olga Chudinovskikh, Moscow State Lomonosov University, Russian Federation

  • James Raymer, Australian National University, Australia

  • Frank Laczko, GMDAC, International Organisation for Migration

  • Danzhen You, UNICEF

  • Sebastian Steinmueller, UNHCR
 15:00 – 16:00
8. Conclusions and the way forward

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