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Acknowledgments

Monday, 15 December 2008

*Collaborating institutions (core group)*
Commission on Filipinos Overseas (Management Information Systems Division and the Policy, Planning and Research Division)	Golda Myra Roma Romeo Rosas Frencel Louie Tingga
Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (Policy and Planning Division)	Carlos Canaberal Evaros Evangelista
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (Department of Economic Research)	Iluminada Sicat Hecelyn Rebustes
University of Santo Tomas - Social Research Center	Dr. Alvin Ang
Institute for Migration and Development Issues	Jeremaiah Opiniano Kathleen Claire Montana Nathaniel Melican Arnold and Bituin Aquino

Survey: Stakeholders’ Views on the Migration and Development Data that they Need

Thursday, 18 December 2008
Academics and demographers belonging to a nonprofit grant-making foundation, the Philippine Center for Population and Development (PCPD), have suggested that the Institute for Migration and Development Issues should hear the views of various stakeholders to know the kind of international migration and development data that they need. Knowing these stakeholders’ data needs will make the Statistical Almanac more useful to them.
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Migration and Development Policy papers

Monday, 09 February 2009

Download these Policy Papers from the Institute for Migration and Development Issues.

IMDI Policy paper 2008-1: International Migration as a Social Protection Mechanism in the Philippines: Issues and Implications [File size: 2.2MB Type: MS Word .doc]	IMDI Policy paper 2007-1: The Panorama and Drama of International Migration and Development in the Philippines [File size: 1.7MB Type: MS Word .doc]
IMDI Policy paper 2007-2: Statistics on Filipinos' International Migration: Issues and Steps toward Harmonizing the Data [File size: 1.2MB Type: MS Word .doc]	IMDI Policy paper 2007-3: Development Aid from 'Well-Meaning amaterus': A Scoping Study on the Status and Prospects of Filipino Migrant Philanthropy [File size: 2.8MB Type: MS Word .doc]
IMDI Policy paper 2007-4: Overseas Filipinos as 'Civic Actors' to the MDGs? An Exploratory Interface between International Migration's Development Implications and the Millennium Development Goals in the Philippines [File size: 1.5MB Type: MS Word .doc]	Click here to download all the policy paper files as one compressed ZIP file. File Size: 5.7MB

Packaging the Almanac

Thursday, 18 December 2008
How this Statistical Almanac was developed The world now lives in an era of what experts call “international migration and development.” Now that the movement of people is a visible development issue worldwide, all the more that the Philippines must have available statistics on overseas Filipinos that are then analyzed with identified socio-economic development indicators. The Institute for Migration and Development Issues started compiling datasets on overseas Filipinos when it was technical editor of a government publication called the Fourth State of the Philippine Population Report (SPPR4), the report, still to be released by the Commission on Population (PopCom)), was a first attempt to look at Filipinos’ international migration from the standpoint of demography—with migration both internal and international, among the three processes in demography.
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Limitations of the Data in this Statistical Almanac

Thursday, 18 December 2008
International migration statistics in the Philippines are not perfect—a fact that data-crunchers in the government agencies that develop such data have themselves admitted. The Philippines has tried its best to develop the best possible set of international migration statistics amid observations that capturing and generating such statistics from a population process called international migration is difficult. Statistics presented in this Migration and Development Statistical Almanac all the more have their limitations.
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