Date: 2013
Type: Technical Report
The collection of statistical data on migration in Azerbaijan
Technical Report, Migration Policy Centre, CARIM-East, Explanatory Notes, 2013/147
YUNUSOV, Arif, The collection of statistical data on migration in Azerbaijan, Migration Policy Centre, CARIM-East, Explanatory Notes, 2013/147 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/62773
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In the post-Soviet period in Azerbaijan?especially in the 90?s due to war with Armenia, and the political chaos and economic collapse after the breakup of the USSR? serious problems surrounding the statistical records of migration processes arose on the part of the State Statistical Committee (Goskomstat), the main department in this sphere in the republic. Subsequently, the situation involving records of population movement began to improve. However, problems remained. And they were largely connected to the fact that during this period in Azerbaijan, there were many other government departments besides Goskomstat working on issues related to population migration statistics: the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Population, the State Committee on Refugee Affairs and Internally Displaced Persons, the State Committee on the Affairs of Azerbaijanis Living Abroad, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), the Ministry of National Security (MNS), the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education. Each of the above ministries and committees had a special department that poorly coordinated with the others on this issue. Only in recent years has the situation started to change a little for the better, especially after the creation of the State Migration Service (SMS) in 2007, which has a mandated function to merge state control over migration processes, including statistical records. But this process is in its early stages and for now more than 80% of the statistical data on population migration is still administered by Goskomstat.
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Series/Number: Migration Policy Centre; CARIM-East; Explanatory Notes; 2013/147
Keyword(s): Migration Statistical data Azerbaijan
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Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration (CARIM-East) is co-financed by the European University Institute and the European Union
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