Statistiques de migration au Liban

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MEDSTAT II ESCWA regional workshop on migration
statistics
Cairo, June 30 to July 3, 2009
Recent Developments on Migration Statistics in
Lebanon
Lara
BADRE
MEDSTAT II Migration National Coordinator
Central
Administration for Statistics - Lebanon
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Recent Developments on Migration statistics in
Lebanon
Data sources and current projects 1-
Administrative data Measuring migration flows
using individual border crossing data 2-
Surveys Migration module within the MICS3
SURVEY
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Part 1 Administrative data Measuring migration
flows using individual border crossing data
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Administrative data - using individual border
crossing data

• Background
• Cooperation between the Central Administration
  for Statistics (CAS) the General Direction of
  the General Security (GDGS), the proposals in two
  different meetings held under MEDSTAT II and
  technical assistance provided by the Programme
  led to establish a pilot project for measuring
  migration flows using the individual border
  crossing data available at the GDGS.
• Pilot project objectives and steps
• Testing a new methodology provided by the MEDSTAT
  II expert M.Poulain
• Started in 2007 using selected number of
  movements applying the calculation for testing
  the feasibility of the methodology
• Poulain approving the work of the Lebanese team

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Administrative data - using individual border
crossing data

• Concept and methodology
• This new methodology for measuring international
  migration flows is based on the international
  recommendations of the UN and Eurostat
• This measurement is based on
• The concept of stay or residence in a country
  during the last 12 months
• The country were the person has lived
  continuously for most of the last 6 months
  (excluding temporary absence)
• International migration means changing borders of
  the usual country of residence

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Administrative data - using individual border
crossing data

• Concept and methodology
• Hence
• The length of usual residence/ stay in a country
  should be gt 6 months per year (183 days/year)
• Calculating the duration of residence in a
  cumulative period of 12 months from the date of
  movement (M)
• Using previous movements to M (M-183 days) to
  identify his usual residence or stay in the
  country
• Systematic identification of international
  migration movements over the many paths of
  individual border crossings (Sequence in /out)
• Nature of migration defined as the type of
  movement the entry into the country is
  immigration and the exit is emigration

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Administrative data - using individual border
crossing data
Concept and methodology
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Concept and methodology
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Administrative data - using individual border
crossing data
After identifying that this person was IN for
more than 6 months/ per year, we need to look at
his situation for the 6 month previous the M
movement
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• After identifying that this person was IN for
  more than 6 months/ per year,
• we need to look at
• His situation for the 6 month previous the M
  movement (M -183)
• to identify if he is an emigrant or not
  according to his duration of stay or residence
  within the same country

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Administrative data - using individual border
crossing data

• Recommendations
• To be able to apply this methodology the country
  should have
• Electronic data base for all movements for all
  citizens and foreigners
• All border crossings have to be recorded by date,
  type of movement, sex, date of birth,
  citizenship, country of birth.
• Use anonymous data for individual movements
• Create a link between all movements for each
  person crossing the borders
• Concretely this methodology does not allow to
  register more than one immigration or one
  emigration during a calendar year.

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crossing data

• Recommendations
• Unfortunately, we have to wait until the end of
  the second year T1 in order to identify all
  international migrations to be enumerated during
  the first calendar year T.
• In some cases you should validate the data before
  applying this methodology (in case of illogical
  path such as Out- Out or In- In or single path
  such as In only or Out only)
• In Lebanon we created with Poulain rules of
  similarity
• To do this you should know and identify the
  reasons for such cases

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Part 2- Surveys Migration module within the
MICS3 SURVEY
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Surveys- Migration module

• Background
• The Central Administration of Statistics (CAS)
  prepared a module on migration within the
  Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey, Round 3
  (MICS3)
• MICS3 is conducted in partnership with the UNICEF
• MEDSTAT II project provided technical assistance
  to Lebanon

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Surveys- Migration module

• Survey objectives and techniques
• Providing indicators on women childrens
  health, employment, migration, housing..
• Sample size is 16500 Household
• Currently conducting the survey using PDAs for
  data collection for the first time
• 3 questionnaires Household, Women, Under Five

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Surveys- Migration module

• Concepts and methodology
• Challenging issues related to migration
• Identify Households member that have emigrated
• Identify Households that have emigrated as whole
• Identify immigrants

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• Concepts and methodology
• In order to be able to collect information
  related to migration we did inquire on
• Reference period 5 years previous to the survey
• Emigration linked to the head of the household
  only
• If the emigrated person was/ was not living
  within the same household with the head of the
  household before emigration
• Information and characteristics of the migrants
  at the time of migration
• Change of address during the last 5 years ( for
  all households members aged 5 years and above)

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Surveys- Migration module

• Expected Outputs and results
• Results should provide data on
• General characteristics of emigration for the
  past 5 years
• Profile and characteristics of emigration such as
  age, sex, occupation, level of education, cause
  of migration, hosting country
• Internal migration
• Potentially a partial information on the
  characteristics of immigration for the past 5
  years
• Previous country of residence, reason for
  changing address

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Thank you for your attention
To contact us Central Administration for
Statistics Kantary, Army street, Finance Trade
building. Beirut, Lebanon Phone and Fax 961-
1- 373 160 Email lara_badre_at_yahoo.com
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