Revised UN recommendations on statistics of international migration: enhancing data availability, timeliness, and relevance

Jun 16, 2025 | 2:15 PM - 3:45 PM

Orkanen Building Auditoriums D138, D131, & Streaming Live Online

Description

Earlier this year, the Statistical Commission endorsed the revised Recommendations on Statistics of International Migration and Temporary Mobility at its 56th Session (2025). The objective of this session is to discuss opportunities and challenges for improving the availability, timeliness and accuracy of data on international migration with national and international producers of such information, in the context of implementing the updated Recommendations. The plenary session will include interventions on: • How national statistical offices (NSOs) are using and integrating field-based, administrative and big data sources, including geospatial information, to produce statistics on international migration, and how they are operationalizing the new UN recommendations; • How technology is enabling innovative methodologies to make international migrants more visible in official statistics, and to improve data availability, timeliness and accuracy; • How data disaggregation presents both opportunities and challenges for an intersectional approach to statistics on international migration, given the extreme limitations in availability of SDGs indicators and other data disaggregated by migration status as well as other critical characteristics (migrant age and sex). Moderator: Francesca Grum, Assistant Director, UNSD Speakers: - Josée Bégin, Assistant Chief Statistician, Social, Health and Labour Statistics, Statistics Canada - Marco Marsili, Population Register, Demographic Statistics, and Living Conditions, ISTAT - Graciela Martinez Caballero, Director of Statistics, Centre for Migration Studies of the Migration Policy, Registration and Identity of Persons Unit, Ministry of the Interior (SEGOB), Mexico - Ali Said, Director of Population and Manpower Statistics, BPS-Statistics, Indonesia - Susanne Taillemite, Head of Unit of Population and Migration, Eurostat

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