In this lesson Sona Kalataryan presents the main source of data and how to download the appropriate information from the main source of migration data.

Key providers of International Migration Statistics:

Eurostat

http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statisticsexplained/index.php/Migration_and_migrant_population_statistics

 

OECD Database on Immigrants in OECD Countries (DIOC and DIOC Extended)

http://www.oecd.org/els/mig/oecdmigrationdatabases.htm

 

World Bank Bilateral Migration Matrix

http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/global-bilateral-migration-database

 

Sussex Global Migrant Origin Database

http://www.migrationdrc.org/research/typesofmigration/global_migrant_origin_database.html

 

UNPD

http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/migration/index.shtml

 

UNPD Global Migration Database

http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/migration/data/estimates2/estimates15.shtml

 

UNPD Trends in International Migrant Stock

http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/migration/data/estimates2/estimates15.shtml

 

UNPD Flows to and from Selected Countries

http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/migration/data/empirical2/migrationflows.shtml

 

UNESCO International Tertiary Students

http://www.uis.unesco.org/Education/Pages/international-student-flow-viz...

http://uis.unesco.org/

 

International Public Use Microdata Statistics (IPUMS)

https://www.ipums.org/

 

United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) Statistical Online Database

http://popstats.unhcr.org/en/asylum_seekers

http://data.unhcr.org/dataviz/

 

Suggested Readings:

Handbook on Data Quality Assessment Methods and Tools. Eurostat

http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/64157/4373903/05-Handbook-on-data-quality-assessment-methods-and-tools.pdf/c8bbb146-4d59-4a69-b7c4-218c43952214

 

Education, gender and international migration: Insights from a panel dataset 1980 - 2010 Methodology Report – IAB.

http://doku.iab.de/daten/brain-drain/iabbd_8010_v1_methodology.pdf

 

Docquier F., Lowell B. L. and Marfouk A. (2009), A Gendered Assessment of Highly Skilled Emigration. Population and Development Review, 35, 297–321.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1728-4457.2009.00277.x/abstract

 

Ortega F. and Peri G.(2009), The Causes and Effects of International Migrations: Evidence from OECD Countries 1980-2005, NBER Working Paper No. 14833.

http://www.nber.org/papers/w14833

 

Global Bilateral Migration Database, World Bank Group and Ç. Özden, C. Parsons, M. Schiff and T. L. Walmsley (2011), 'Where on Earth is Everybody? The Evolution of Global Bilateral Migration, 1960-2000', World Bank Economic Review 25(1):12-56.

https://academic.oup.com/wber/article-abstract/25/1/12/1678242/Where-on-Earth-is-Everybody-The-Evolution-of

 

Özden Ç., Parsons C., Schiff M.W., Walmsley T., (2009), The Evolution of Global Bilateral Migration 1960-2000. In The Second Conference on International Migration and Development, Sep 10-11. The World Bank, Washington DC.

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.504.6004&rep=rep1&type=pdf

 

A. Gamlen, (2010). International Migration Data and the Study of Super-Diversity, MMG Working Paper 10-05.

http://pubman.mpdl.mpg.de/pubman/item/escidoc:1126637/component/escidoc:2058197/WP_10-05_Gamlen_Postwar-Migration-Data.pdf