Use of sample surveys to measure international migration Experience of the Republic of Moldova...

Use of sample surveys to measure international migration

Experience of the Republic of Moldova

Valentina Istrati, head of demography statistics and population census division

[email protected]

Workshop on Migration Statistics (Minsk, 28‑29 May 2015)

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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”

UNECE Work Session on Migration Statistics, Geneva, 17-19 October 2012

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).




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


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)



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.



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



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



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



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


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

Distribution of migrants by sex and areas, %

Women32.4%

Men67.6%

Urban25.0%

Rural75.0%

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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