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Use of sample surveys to measure international migration
Experience of the Republic of Moldova
Valentina Istrati, head of demography statistics and population census division
valentina.istrati@statistica.md
Workshop on Migration Statistics (Minsk, 28‑29 May 2015)
Households surveys
Labour Force survey (LFS) - quarterly continuously survey
Labour force migration - ad hoc
module to LFS, 2008
Labour force migration - ad hoc
module to LFS, 2012
Household Budget Surveys (HBS) - quarterly continuously survey
Labour force migration, 4th quarter 2012 (ad-hoc module to LFS)
Technical assistance
ILO Project “Effective Governance of Labour Migration
and its Skills Dimensions”
ILO Department of Statistics
UN Joint Project “Strengthening the national statistical
system of the Republic of Moldova”
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Labour force migration 2012
The main goal of the module is to provide information on labour
migration and its skills dimension (some aspects).
The purposes are:
Providing information on the skills composition (linked to related
characteristics) of migration flow for analysing and evaluation of its
(migration) impact on potential of country skills and competences;
Using the data collected for the design of legal labour migration
schemes (to build result-based monitoring and evaluation systems).
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Labour force migration 2012
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Sample: The sample size is of 12000 households per quarter (LFS sample)
Population Resident population of the country living in private households (at
domestic addresses)
The target population: all members of households aged 15 - 64 years,
including a) current and returned migrants, as well b) potential migrants.
Different questionnaires are applied for these three categories.
Survey tools:
Individual Questionnaires for persons aged 15 – 64 years
Labour force migration 2012
Individual Questionnaires:
Questionnaire for “absent migrants” (LFM-A) – persons who are
absent in the household at the moment of the interview, the reason
of absence being “staying abroad” including “work or looking for a
job”
Questionnaire for “returned migrants” (LFM-C) – persons who are in
the household at the moment of the interview and who have been
abroad during the last 24 months prior to the interview, working or
looking for a job
Questionnaire for “potential migrants” (LFM-B)
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Labour force migration 2012
Definition of labour migration in the frame of LFM Survey:
“Migrants”, according to the survey methodology, are
considered all persons who are abroad, working or looking
for a job, at the moment of the interview or those were
abroad during the last 24 months prior to the interview.
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The questions in the questionnaires are arranged into four sections, with indications of the target population:
A. Characteristics before the current/last trip abroad
B. Characteristics during the current/last trip abroad
C. Characteristics after return to Moldova
D. Intention to migrate
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A.Characteristics before the current/last trip abroad (items)
destination country, duration of staying in that country, reasons for trip,
educational attainment, field of study, other training before last trip,
type of training attended, language proficiency, main activity prior to
departure, activity status before current/last trip, job search before
current/last trip, duration of job search, occupation of last job, industry
of last job, status in employment in last job, reasons for stopping last
job, reason to look for work/work abroad, intended industry of work
abroad
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B.Characteristics during the current/last trip abroad
education and training during current/last trip, kind of education /
training, field of study, equivalency of studies sought/received,
duration of job search abroad, usual working hours per week,
occupation, industry, status in employment, type of labour relations,
social protection, wishing recognizing the qualifications, volume of
monthly remittances, their main using, including investment in
education and training, average monthly earnings, legal status in
destination country
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Labour force migration 2012
C.Characteristics after return to Moldova
main reason of returning to Moldova
D. Intention to migrate
intention to migrate, intended place of destination, intended purpose of
trip, intention to work, intended duration of trip, concrete plans to
undertake travel abroad, networks abroad, training in the last 12
months, type of training attend, field (subject) of study, some general
information regarding respondents knowledge about legal ways to
migrate for work
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Some results of the survey
The number of the migrants that at the moment of the interview were abroad/returned were 426,9 thousands. Thus every 6th person between the group age 15-64 were affected by the phenomenon of migration.
9.9% 6.5%
83.6%
Persons aged 15-64 in relation to the fenomenon of migration
persons absent abroad for work or looking for a job
persons who have been abroad during the last 24 months, working or looking for a job
persons that were not abroad in the last 24 months for work
Distribution of migrants by country of destination and sex, %
Total Men Women
Total 100,0 100,0 100,0
Russia 69,2 81,1 44,4
Italy 14,2 5,5 32,3
Israel 2,5 0,7 6,3
France 2,3 2,4 2,2
Turkey 2,1 0,4 5,7
Ukraine 1,7 2,0 1,1
Other countries 8,0 7,9 8,0
Household Budget Surveys
The main objective of the HBS is to determine people’s level of life
through incomes,
expenses,
consumption,
living conditions
and other indicators from a multi-aspect perspective.
The target of the survey are all persons from the selected
households, including persons temporary absent or absent for a
longer period of time, if they keep family relations with the household
and participate totally or partially at the household budget they
belong to.
The main indicators of the HBS
- The monthly average income of a person (cash
and in kind resources)
- The monthly average expenditure per person
- The characteristic of the household
- Living conditions
- Poverty indicators
urban area rural area Total
20.6%26.4% 23.8%
79.4%73.6% 76.2%
Households with remittances, by area
Households with remittances Households without remittances
Households with migrants Households without migrants
Households with migrants Households without migrants
urban area rural area
84.2%
14.7%
84.1%
15.0%
15.8%
85.3%
15.9%
85.0%
Households with migrants and remittances
Households with remittances Households without remittances
urban area rural area Total
9.9% 12.0% 11.1%
90.1% 88.0% 88.9%
Main source of income of persons, by area
Remittances Other sources
Households with children and migrants in urban area
Households with children and migrants in rural area
Total
5.4% 5.8% 5.7%
12.1%21.2% 18.8%
67.7% 51.2% 55.4%
14.9%21.8% 20.0%
Households with children less than 18 years old, by households with migrants and children and area
Both parents a abroad Only mother abroadOnly father abroad Non of the parent is abroad
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