Demographic and Social Statistics

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This Expert Group Meeting is convened in the framework of the second revision of the United Nations Recommendations on Statistics of International Migration, as requested by the Statistical Commission in its decisions 50/117 (2019) and 52/109 (2021), where the revised conceptual framework for statistics on international migration was endorsed. This meeting will bring together the group of experts on migration statistics, established by the Statistical Commission at its forty-ninth session in 2018. The outcome of this meeting is expected to be reported to the Statistical Commission for discussion.

Main documents

Day 1. Monday, 20 June 2022

Opening

  • Mr. Ayache Khellaf, Secretary General, High Commission for Planning, Morocco

  • Mr. Nicolas Martin, Head, UN Resident Coordinator Office

  • Mr. Diego Iturralde, Expert Group Co-Chair, South Africa

  • Ms. Francesca Grum, Chief, Demographic and Social Statistics Branch, UNSD
Session 1. Introduction to the report Indicators for international migration and temporary mobility

Session 2. Migration Indicators for Policy Area 1 “Improve the measurement of international migration and temporary mobility flows and stocks”


  • Ms. Winida Albertha, Statistician, Population and Labor Mobility Statistics Division, BPS-Statistics Indonesia, Indonesia
Session 3. Migration Indicators for Policy Area 2 “Address irregular cross border movements and visa overstays”


  • Mr. Omar Muro Orozco, Deputy General Director, Social and Demographic Administrative Records, INEGI, Mexico

  • Ms. Lauren Medina, Chief, Foreign-Born Population Branch, US Census Bureau, United States
Session 4. Indicators for disaggregation by migration-relevant topics for Policy Areas 3, 4, 5 and 6

  • Ms. Meryem Demirci, Inter-regional Adviser on Population and Housing Census, UNSD

  • Mr. Miguel Ojeda Labourdette, Jefe Subdepartamento De Demografía, Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas (INE), Chile

  • Mr. Godwin Odei Gyebi, Head, Data Production Unit, Ghana Statistical Service, Ghana

  • Ms. Annika Klintefelt, Senior Advisor, Statistics Denmark, Denmark
Session 5. Data collection and production strategies to implement the revised conceptual framework on international migration, and potential data sources

  • Ms. Meryem Demirci, Inter-regional Adviser on Population and Housing Census, UNSD

  • Ms. Roslawati Yahya, Director, Manpower and Social Statistics Division, Department of Statistics, Malaysia

  • Mr. Nikolaus Koutakis, Statistician / Long termn adviser, Statistics Sweden, Sweden

  • Mr. Ferenc Urban, Head of section migration statistics, Hungarian Central Statistical Office, Hungary

Day 2. Tuesday, 21 June 2022

Session 6: Georgia benchmarking study

  • Mr. Gogita Todradze, Executive Director, National Statistics Office of Georgia, Georgia

  • Mr. Nikoloz Nikuradze, Statistician / Long termn adviser, Statistics Sweden, Sweden
Session 7: Latin America diagnostics study and roadmap

  • Ms. Adriana Oropeza Lliteras, Technical Coordinator-vicepresidency Sociodemographic Statistis, INEGI, Mexico
Session 8: Morocco integrated system of international migration statistics

  • Ms. Karima Belhaj, Mr. Mohamed Mghari, Morocco HCP, Morocco
Session 9: Data quality issues


  • Ms. Samantha Alejandra Ramirez, Statistics technician, Unidad de Política Migratoria, Registro e Identidad de Personas, Internal Affairs Ministry (SEGOB), Mexico

  • Ms. Mervat Al Nimer, Statistician, Department of Statistics of Jordan, Jordan

  • Mr. Kåre Vassenden, Senior Advisor, Statistics Norway, Norway
Session 10: Meetings of Task Force 3 and Task Force 4, only for in-person participants

Day 3. Wednesday, 21 June 2022

Session 11: Discussion of data quality issues in break-out groups, only for in-person participants
Session 12: Data integration: Methods and case studies

  • Mr. Jason Schachter, Task Force 3 Co-chair, US Census Bureau, USA

  • Ms. Aurelia Spataru, Deputy general director, National Bureau of Statistics, Moldova

  • Mr. Diego Iturralde, Chief Director, Demography and Population Statistics, Statistics South Africa, South Africa
Session 13: Conclusions and way forward

Closing

  • High Commission for Planning, Morocco

  • Mr. Ferenc Urbán, Expert Group Co-chair, Hungarian Central Statistical Office, Hungary

  • Ms. Elisa Benes, Expert Group Co-Chair, ILO

  • Ms. Francesca Grum, Chief, Demographic and Social Statistics Branch, UNSD

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