Migration Statistics Mainstreaming

1. Joint UNECE/Eurostat Work Session on Migration Statistics Katarzyna Kraszewska European Commission, DG Eurostat Migration Statistics Mainstreaming

2. Statisticalmainstreaming of migration • A realistic and necessary response: • to the policy mainstreaming of migration (a direct parallel to policy mainstreaming) • to the evolving demands for social and economic data on migrants • An assurance that the needs for information on migrants are taken into account across a wide range of social and economic statistics

3. Development and implementation of a programme for the statistical mainstreaming of migration • 2008 - an outline plan that included initial proposals for the statistical mainstreaming of migration and the development of social and economic data on migrants was proposed • October 2009 - the Directors General of the European Union National Statistical Institutes (NSIs) agreed the Malta Declaration on the Mainstreaming of Migration in official statistics

4. Malta Declaration: Mainstreaming of Migration in official statistics (adopted in October 2009) • Policy context: 5 year Stockholm Programme on strategic priorities in justice and home affairs (adopted in December 2009) • What should be measured? • Extent of migration (flows and stocks) • Drivers of migration • Integration of migrants • Challenges: • Integrated response comprising different data sources • Overcoming barriers in using administrative data • Harmonisation of concepts and definitions • International exchange of data • First practical steps: • Establish a Task Force on Migration Statistic Mainstreaming • Develop: a conceptual framework for the mainstreaming of migration statistics and a work programme for the development of European statistics on migration

5. Conceptual Framework • A set of organising principles relating to user needs, priorities, statistical concepts and definitions • Illustrates: • migration flows together with related monetary flows • migration stocks with the detailed information on different target groups and an appropriate set of variables essential to identify different definitions of ‘migrants’ • statistical process focused on the meaningful integration of data from different sources, as well as the exchange of data and information on best practices

6. Conceptual Framework (cont.)Migration flowsMigration pathways Duration: Short term migrants Long term migrants Legality: Legal migrants Undocumented migrants Reasons for migration: Employment Family Study Retirement Asylum seekers WORLD EUROPEAN UNION EUROPEAN UNION Country A Country B Country C Intra – E U mobility 1. Immigration Dimensions of migration/types of migrants Migration pathways 2. 3. Emigration 4. 5.

7. Workers' remittances (e.g.transmitted by migrant workers to their families in the country of origin) Transfers of money from country of origin (e.g. for the unestablished migrants) Social security transfers/pensions Student financial support/tuition fees (from the country of origin) WORLD EUROPEAN UNION Country A Country B Country C Monetary flows 1. Types of remittances, senders and receivers/ types of remittances 2. 3. 4. Conceptual Framework (cont.)Migration flows (cont.) Related monetary flows EUROPEAN UNION

8. Native born Foreignborn Non-EU born EU born • Foreigners Third country nationals Second generation migrants Nationals through acquisition Nationals at birth Conceptual Framework (cont.)Migration stocksTarget groups

9. Target groups Variables Non-native born Country of birth Foreigners Country of citizenship Nationals through acquisition Parents' country of birth Recent arrivals Citizenship at birth Third country nationals Year of arrival Second generation migrants Conceptual Framework (cont.)Migration stocks (cont.) Target groups and related variables

10. STATISTICAL ACTIVITIES DATA SOURCES DATA OUTPUT • Existing harmonized data sources • Census • LFS • EU-SILC • Ad-hoc modules • Resident permits statistics • Balance of payments • Demographiccharacteristics • Education • Employment • Income • Living conditions • Health • Social inclusion • Integration • Remittances . . . • Integration of data sources • linking • matching • Estimation • Exchange of databetween countries • Potential national data sources • Education registers • Health care administration data • Social protection data • Benefits • Specific migrant surveys. . . Conceptual Framework (cont.) Statistical process Data/Treatment

11. Work Programme • A set of actions which can be undertaken to develop migration statistics to better meet the evolving policy needs for information on migration and migrants • Developments based on integrated approach • Coherence with the work on re-engineering of social statistics

12. Work Programme (cont.) Proposed Actions • Adapting existing data sources • Adapting methodology of existing surveys • Developing special migrant questions/modules attached to existing surveys • Further development of residence permit statistics • Developing new data sources • Developing the statistical use of administrative data • Establishing new targeted migrant survey/surveys • Definitions, concepts and methods • Priority target groups • Mechanisms for integrating data from different sources • Improving communication and cooperation with policy makers • Joint meetings – at national and European level • Developing data sharing between national systems • Data sharing between origin and destination countries 12

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