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Saturday, 15 November 2008 |
This Philippine Migration and Development Statistical Almanac is a result of three years of monitoring, compiling, and eventually harmonizing statistics on Filipinos’ international migration by the Institute for Migration and Development Issues (IMDI). The Almanac is also a fitting tribute to the hardworking women and men within the government—from both statistical and non-statistical agencies—who have dutifully encoded and compiled raw and processed data surrounding overseas Filipinos for the general public’s benefit.
The Migration and Development Statistical Almanac attempts to present data from administrative sources, as well as data from surveys and other selected quantitative studies, on Filipinos’ international migration and development. The data here flesh out the positive and negative consequences surrounding the overseas migration phenomenon to both the Philippines and to the countries where Filipinos go to.
The Almanac does not aim to immediately make sense of the various data here. The publication rather presents these various datasets, regardless of where the data came from and the variances of such data. Government data-crunchers themselves, for decades now, have yet to determine a way to address these variances.
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IMDI Policy paper 2008-1: International Migration as a Social Protection Mechanism in the Philippines: Issues and Implications
Click here to download all the policy paper files as one compressed ZIP file.
