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TRIANGLE in ASEAN
Fifth Technical Meeting of Focal Specialists on International Labour Migration Statistics in ASEAN
This meeting discusses international labour migration data statistics and brings together representatives from national governments, the ASEAN Secretariat, ASEAN Statistics, and ILO.
The International Labour Migration Statistics (ILMS) Database in ASEAN has been published annually since December 2014 as a special collection on the ILO’s central database, ILOSTAT, as well as through the AP-Migration web-portal.
TRIANGLE in ASEAN will host the fifth technical meeting of Focal Specialists on International Labour Migration Statistics in ASEAN on 27-28 August 2019 in Bangkok, Thailand. The overall objectives of the meeting are to:
Share experiences on ILMS data collection in 1st-6th rounds of ILMS collection in ASEAN, and identify ways to further improve data collection and sharing among ASEAN Member States.
Discuss initial findings from ILO’s draft report “Preparing ASEAN for SDG reporting on labour migration: Analytical report on the International Labour Migration Statistics Database in ASEAN”
Introduce the new ILMS data collection template developed by ILOSTAT and discuss upcoming changes in collection of ILMS data at global level
Brief ILMS national focal points on the new Guidelines concerning statistics of international labour migration
Discuss strategies to ensure the collection and production of international migration and labour migration statistics at national level, in line with recent international standards
Prepare for the seventh phase of data collection in ASEAN to be launched on 2 September 2019
The ILMS database was created in 1998 and maintained until 2006 by ILOSTAT, EURSTAT, UNSD and UNECE, with regular updates of data from 94 countries. In the 2012, the ILO’s ASEAN TRIANGLE project, funded by Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (GAC), reinvigorated the ILMS for ASEAN.
Since 2016, the ILMS Database in ASEAN is supported by the TRIANGLE in ASEAN programme, which is a partnership between the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), the GAC and the ILO. TRIANGLE in ASEAN program delivers technical assistance and support with the overall goal of maximizing the contribution of labour migration to equitable, inclusive, and stable growth in ASEAN.
