Data can help manage human mobility, says ECA’s Chinganya
The ECA’s African Centre for Statistics (ACS) this week participated in the first ever International Forum on Migration Statistics that was held in Paris, France. The Forum, organized jointly by IOM, the UN Migration Agency, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) brought together 700 statisticians, researchers, policy makers and representatives from civil society. The two-day event at the OECD Conference Centre in Paris consisted of five plenary sessions and close to forty parallel sessions. Topics discussed included improving the production of migration data, global initiatives on migration, public opinion and migration, data innovation and big data and capacity building. The Forum brought together experts and policy makers interested in migration measurement issues; explored innovative ways to measure population mobility across countries as well as economic and social immigrant integration; and helped create synergies between different actors and perspectives, with representatives from 'origin', ‘transit’ and 'host' countries of migrants.
| Format: | Press release biblioteca |
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| Language: | eng |
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2018-01
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10855/45229 |
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