Proposal Description

The Mediterranean Household International Migration Survey (MED-HIMS) is a joint initiative of the European Commission/Eurostat, The World Bank, ILO, IOM, UNFPA, UNHCR, and the League of Arab States, in collaboration with the National Statistical Offices of countries in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean region. The MED-HIMS programme is designed to support countries in producing international migration data for analysing the recent trends, causes, determinants, dynamics and consequences of international migration and mobility. After a round of MED-HIMS surveys in the region, the methodology was recently revised to better comply with international recommendations on international migrations and population censuses. The methodology of MED-HIMS rev 2 provides revised concepts and questionnaires in combination with a population census module on international migrations, to be used by Mediterranean countries but is also in other countries. The session will present the new methodology and the experience and projects of two countries, Morocco and South-Africa, in measuring international migration, through surveys and censuses.