Finding ways to improve migration data
A constant struggle facing researchers and policymakers tackling migration issues is a lack of good data. The Center for Global Development recently released “Five Steps Toward Better Migration Data,” an excellent report on concrete steps governments and non-governmental organizations can take in the short run to fill this gap.
This report is particularly important in the context of a new round of census taking in 2010. The five recommendations are to:
- Ask basic census questions and make the data publicly available;
- Compile and release existing administrative data;
- Centralize labor force surveys;
- Provide access to microdata, not just tabulations; and
- Include migration modules on more existing household surveys.
Given the abundance of recommendations in the development industry, a laudable effort is the accompanying report card (PDF) which tracks countries’ progress with respect to the recommendations.
Here are some existing sources of data on migration and remittances:
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remittances as percent of gdp
may i ask for your kind guidance in understanding how it can be said
that the philippines' annual remittances worth us$18.6billion
(estimate for 2008 by world bank:
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPROSPECTS/Resources/RemittancesData_March09-Release.xls)
is calculated at 11.6% of the philippine gdp.
i tried to verify this the following way:
1. i got the philippine gdp for 2008
(http://222.127.10.196/cgi-bin/st2.cgi?/eds/db/national/national/national_accounts_phil_a.sc)
but found that it was in pesos: php1,432,088,000,000.00
2. i got the official average peso dollar exchange rate for 2008
(http://www.bsp.gov.ph/statistics/spei_new/tab25.htm):
php44.4746:us$1.
3. when i divide php1,432,088,000,000.00 by 44.47 i get us$32,200,132,210.29.
4. when i divide the us$18.6billion with the us$32.2billion, i get
57.7%, not 11.6%
now verifying even further: the world cia factbook
(https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/RP.html)
places the philippine estimated 2008 GDP at us$320.6billion (based, it
says, on purchasing power parity) or us$168.6billion (based on the
official exchange rate).
could you help me sir to understand how it can be said that the
philippine remittances of 2008 is 11.6% of its gdp?
thanks sir.
el joma
http://iloveapu.blogspot.com
Dear El Joma, 11.6% was
Dear El Joma,
11.6% was obtained by dividing remittance inflows to the Philippines (16.29bn for 2007) by its GDP (which was 140.21 bn for 2007). Please note that these are estimates from March 2009.
We have published slightly revised estimates for July 2009 at, according to which, remittances(16.30bn in 2007) were 11.3% of the GDP of Philippines (144.10 bn in 2007).
The official GDP numbers for 2008 are released only in 2010, which is why we present numbers for 2007.
Ani.
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