Demographic and Social Statistics
Meetings
SADC Regional Workshop on the Use of Administrative Data Sources for Migration Statistics
Johannesburg, South Africa
- 17 - 21 March 2025
The workshop is organized by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) in collaboration with the SADC Secretariat and the Collaborative on Administrative Data (CAD)
Overview
UNSD, together with the SADC Secretariat and the Collaborative on Administrative Data (CAD), carried out a five-day regional workshop on the use of administrative data sources for migration statistics from 17-21 March 2025 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The workshop was also supported by the participation of the International Organization for Migation (IOM) and the International Labour Organization (ILO).
Each SADC Member state was represented by one participant each from the National Statistical Office, Ministry of Labour, and Immigration Department. The workshop aimed to enhance Member states' capacity to develop and improve migration statistics through the integration of administrative data sources. Key objectives achieved included: enhancing participant understanding of the newly endorsed UN Recommendations on statistics of international migration and temporary mobility, providing training on the use administrative data for statistical production (including aspects of data quality, metadata, data sharing, confidentiality, and interoperability), taking stock of each country's current migration statistics capacity, exchanging good practices, facilitating collaboration among each country's relevant data producers/users and drafting country-specific roadmaps for implementation during 2025-28 (corresponding to the duration of a World Bank-funded project for the SADC region).
This capacity-building initiative aligned with SADC's Regional Strategy for Development of Statistics (RSDS) 2020-30 and Protocol on Statistics, which emphasizes administrative data as an important source for official statistics.
Main documents
Presentations
- Day 1, 17 March 2025
- Strategic frameworks on regional statistics and migration policy in SADC region
- Jagai Deepchandsingh, SADC Secretariat
pdf
- Migration statistics introduction - overview of the endorsed recommendations
- Maria Isabel Cobos, UNSD
pdf
- IOM presentation
- Harry Cook, IOM
pdf
- Exercise on migration policy data needs
- Poll responses chart
pdf
- The Collaborative on Administrative Data
- Martina De Saverio, UNSD (CAD)
pdf
- Administrative data and its benefits for statistics
- Janet McLaren, GPSDD (CAD)
pdf
- How can we map data sources and why is it useful?
- Martina De Saverio, UNSD (CAD)
pdf
- Day 2, 18 March 2025
- Metadata, standards and definitions
- Martina De Saverio, UNSD (CAD)
pdf
- Statistics on international labour migration and temporary labour mobility
- Elisa Benes, ILO (remote)
pdf
- Migration statistics - conceptual framework, concepts and definitions
- Maria Isabel Cobos, UNSD
pdf
- Quality of statistics and quality management
- Janet McLaren, GPSDD (CAD)
pdf
- Day 3, 19 March 2025
- Data sources for migration statistics
- Elena de Jesus, UNSD
pdf
- Formalizing data sharing and legal frameworks
- Janet McLaren, GPSDD (CAD)
pdf
- Data confidentiality and security
- Martina De Saverio, UNSD (CAD)
pdf
- Day 4, 20 March 2025
- Data interoperability and linking
- Martina De Saverio, UNSD (CAD)
pdf
- Day 5, 21 March 2025
- Workshop recommendations pdf
- Country Presentations
- Angola
- Botswana pdf
- DRC
- Eswatini pdf
- Lesotho
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mauritius pdf
- Mozambique
- Namibia pdf
- Seychelles pdf
- South Africa
- Tanzania pdf
- Zambia pdf
- Zimbabwe