Research Project T02

Annual demographic statistics, annual migration statistics, and regional population statistics

Project Manager from the CEFMR part: Dorota Kupiszewska

Project funded through the Eurostat call for tenders (2002/S 133-103745/EN) - Lot 1, and executed by the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), the Hague, in co-operation with Observatoire Démographique Européen, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France and CEFMR, the latter being a subcontractor responsible for the part of the project relevant to the annual migration statistics.

In co-operation and on behalf of the United Nations Statistical Division, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, International Labour Organization and Council of Europe, Eurostat is responsible for preparing and administering the annual Joint Questionnaire on Migration Statistics. Eurostat uses this questionnaire to collect annual data on: migration flows, population by citizenship and country of birth, asylum statistics, labour migration and acquisition of citizenship from the EU and EFTA member states, the Central European Countries and from selected countries of the Mediterranean region (at present: Turkey, Malta, Cyprus and Israel). This questionnaire is sent to National Statistical Institutes each year; the data is provided by countries in the MS Excel format (and in some rare cases on paper).

The role of CEFMR in this project is:

1. Verifying and processing the data in order to prepare them for loading into the MIGRAT domain of the NewCronos database;
2. Assistance in timely dissemination and publication (on paper and in the electronic format) of comparable, good quality statistics on international migration flows, population by citizenship and country of birth, asylum statistics, labour migration and acquisition of citizenship based on policy priorities of the European Commission. In particular, this task includes preparation of relevant sections of Demographic Yearbook published annually by Eurostat, as well as an issue of Statistics in Focus.
3. Participation in production of relevant metadata and documentation.