1) Basic Information

Training material title
Migrants Count: Five Steps Toward Better Migration Data (Report of the Commission on International Migration Data for Development Research and Policy)
Brief description and comments

Slides from a presentation given by Michael Clemens of the Center for Global Development, summarising a full written report of the same title (available here http://www.cgdev.org/publication/migrants-count-five-steps-toward-better-migration-data).

The key considerations discussed in the presentation are:

Ask basic census questions, and tabulate the answers
Exploit administrative sources
Centralize Labour Force Surveys
Provide access to micro-data, not just tabulations
Include migration modules in existing household surveys
Build capacity for collection and dissemination.




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2) Contact details and how to find the material

Author Organization(s)Contact email address for this material (if applicable)Date created

Center for Global Development

Madeleine May x

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2009

Location (links and/or attachments)
http://www.cgdev.org/topics/migration (author's website)
FilenameDate added
migrants count.ppt05 Aug 2013