Development of methodologies for the collection of data on international labour migration: A Strategy paper

In October 2018, the 20th International Conference of Labour statisticians (ICLS) endorsed guidelines concerning statistics of international labour migration.1 The guidelines recognize three concepts of international labour migration, namely: (a) International migrant workers; (a) For‐work international migrants; and (c) Return international migrant workers without excluding others. The guidelines provide definitions of these concepts, relevant classifications and core indicators of stocks and flows of international labour migration. The guidelines also deal with items of data collection and tabulation, data sources and measurement issues.