1. Update and extension of the database on immigrants in OECD countries (DIOC) Joint UNECE/Eurostat Work Session on Migration Statistics, 14-16 April 2010 Jean-Christophe Dumont jean-christophe.dumont@oecd.org OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs International Migration Division

2. Why ? ― Provide policy makers and public opinion with more internationally comparable migration statistics to help dispel some myths ― Shed new light on the so-called «brain drain» Database on Immigrants in OECD Countries (DIOC/2000) What ? ― Data from 29 OECD population censuses and population registers, covering more than 200 origin countries circa 2000. ― Data were compiled on 15+ by country of birth, citizenship, education, age, gender, duration of stay, employment status, occupation, sector of activity and field of study A Profile of Immigrant Populations in the 21 st Century. Data from OECD Countries (OECD 2008) Where can I find the data ? www.oecd.org/els/migration/diocwww.oecd.org/els/migration/dioc and on OECD.stat

3. Limits Data on stocks represent the cumulative effect of net migration flows over past decades Imperfect, heteregenous and unknown coverage of certain categories of migrants : undocumented migrants, temporary migrants, asylum seekers … Some persons with unknown country of birth and/or educational level Specific hypotheses for some countries (Japan, Korea, Germany) Problems for decomposed / recomposed countries of origin

4. Where do they live ? Main characteristics of immigrants in DIOC/2000 (1/3)    7% 41% 42% 6% 75 million immigrants (15+) live in the OECD area Where do they come from ? ― 46% of OECD immigrants were born in other OECD countries ― Europe (29 million); Latin America (19 million); Asia (16 million), Africa (6.5 million)  9%   25%  40% 22%   Who are they? ― 51% women ― 24% tertiary educated ― 13% of the 15+ are 15-24 years old ― 33% arrived in the last 10 years

5. Migration to OECD countries tends to be more and more education and skill biased … … but low-skilled migrant workers still make a key contribution to OECD labour markets Educational distribution of foreign-born in the OECD area by duration of stay, circa 2000 Main characteristics of immigrants in DIOC/2000 (2/3)

6. Highly skilled migration affects in particular small and low-income countries, notably in Africa and the Caribbean Main characteristics of immigrants in DIOC/2000 (3/3)

7. Why ? ― Extension : large part of IM is occuring outside the OECD area ― Update : increasing migration => analyse changes over time Update and extension of DIOC What will be in DIOC/2005-6? ― Data from 26 OECD population censuses, population registers and labour force data. ― Data were compiled on the same basis except that the table on field of study was dropped and a table on region of residence was added Data source and availability When ?

8. Update and extension of DIOC What is DIOC/extended? ― Release 1.0 covers 28 OECD countries as well as 27 non-OECD countries of which fifteen are in Latin America (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela), six in Asia (Israel, Jordan, Kyrgyz Republic, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines), four in Africa (Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda) and two in Europe (Romania, Slovenia). ― 222 countries of birth are included. ― Data were compiled on 15+ by country of birth or citizenship, education, age, gender, employment status and occupation ― Next release (June 2010) will add data for 20 countries and we hope to have around 100 countries included by end 2010 Where can I find the data ? www.oecd.org/els/migration/dioc/extended Joint OECD/World Bank project supported by the AfD

9. Progress in collecting data for DIOC/extended (March 2010)

10. DIOC/extended (release 1.0) : first results 86.5 foreign-born currently in the database (+14%) Distribution by region of origin is only slightly modified … … but we observe major changes for some countries of origin … … and obviously higher emigration rates

11. DIOC/2005-06 ― Data collection and dissemination ― Quality & comparability assessment Next steps DIOC/extended ― Data collection for specific countries and at regional level ― New brain drain figures ― Specific analysis of international migration within specific regions ― Dissemination of the data 2010 round of population censuses