1. Population, Family and Community
UN Expert Group Meeting
Sept
Siobhan Carey
Assistant Director General
Social and Demographic Statistics
Central Statistics Office, Ireland

2. Content Synthesis of 3 papers Common threads
Issues for future consideration
1st COP disability questions 2002
NDA pilot 2003
Govt decision NDS- purpose
1st targeted national survey on disability - use of COP to select sample also a 1st
questions Q 14 2 disability categories
questions Q 15 5 disability categories including ‘other including chronic illness’
Questionnaires - consultative group, ICF

3. Population Israel Estimation of size of population and distribution
Combination of traditional census and population register
Population Register has good properties

4. Sets out some of the measurement issues, and the problems associated with making international classifications relevant and appropriate
- nomadic populations
- boundaries
- ethnicity classifications

5. Migration Commonwealth of Independent States
Immigration and emmigration
Importance for BoP, tax revenue, remittances
Census and Administrative records – arrivals and departures
Permanent/temporary migrants
Illegal migrants

6. Family and Community Jamaica
Defintions and concepts – need to reflect social and legal structures
Units of analysis – families, households (complex formulations)
marital or union status ? Relevance for policy formulation ? (child development )

7. Common threads Difficulties in measurement
Population: definitions, undercounting, overcounting, avoidance of counting,
Migration: legal and illegal migration, remittances, temporary and permanent migrants, change of status – work/study
Classifications and their relevance: reflect reality?

8. Common threads Timeliness – ability to update
Administrative data – availability and accuracy
Eg in the absence of vital registration
Open borders
Ability to cope with change – boundaries at state level and within state, legal structures
Differences in meaning – urban?

9. Issues Life is becoming more complex Migration –
eg – child benefit payments
- labour mobility
Social strctures
- blended families
- same sex relationships/marriages
- creation new states

10. Issues Potential of administrative records
Issues of privacy and confidentiality
Focus on lower levels of disaggregation
Eg Impact of migration on local administrative units
Differences in local reality makes relevance of international classifications questionable (ethnicity, legal family structures, children)