Demographic and Social Statistics

Meetings

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  

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