- Title Pages
- List of figures, tables and boxes
- Notes on contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- General introduction
-
Part I How data are changing:Part I editors:Humphrey Southall andJeff Evans -
1 Statistical work: the changing occupational landscape -
2 The creation and use of big administrative data -
3 Data analytics -
4 Social media data -
Part II Counting in a globalised world:Part II editors:Sally Ruane andJeff Evans -
5 Adult skills surveys and transnational organisations: globalising educational policy -
6 Using survey data: towards valid estimates of poverty in the South -
7 Counting the population in need of international protection globally -
8 Tax justice and the challenges of measuring illicit financial flows -
Part III Statistics and the changing role of the state:Part III editors:Sally Ruane andHumphrey Southall -
9 The control and ‘fitness for purpose’ of UK official statistics -
10 The statistics of devolution -
11 Welfare reform: national policies with local impacts -
12 From ‘welfare’ to ‘workfare’, and back again? Social insecurity and the changing role of the state -
13 Access to data and NHS privatisation: reducing public accountability -
Part IV Economic life: Part IV editors:Humphrey Southall ,Sally Ruane andJeff Evans -
14 The ‘distribution question’: measuring and evaluating trends in inequality -
15 Labour market statistics -
16 The financial system: money makes the world go around -
17 The difficulty of building comprehensive tax avoidance data -
18 Tax and spend decisions: did austerity improve financial numeracy and literacy? -
Part V Inequalities in health and wellbeing: Part V editors:Sally Ruane andHumphrey Southall -
19 Health divides -
20 Measuring social wellbeing -
21 Re-engineering health policy research to measure equity impacts -
22 The Generation Game: ending the phoney information war between young and old -
Part VI Advancing social progress through critical statistical literacy: Part VI editors:Jeff Evans ,Sally Ruane andHumphrey Southall -
23 The Radical Statistics Group: using statistics for progressive social change -
24 Lyme disease politics and evidence‑based policy making in the UK -
25 Counting the uncounted: contestations over casualisation data in Australian universities -
26 The quantitative crisis in UK sociology -
27 Critical statistical literacy and interactive data visualisations -
28 Full Fact -
29 What a difference a dataset makes? Data journalism and/as data activism - Epilogue: progressive ways ahead
- Index
Counting the population in need of international protection globally
Counting the population in need of international protection globally
- Chapter:
- (p.91) 7 Counting the population in need of international protection globally
- Source:
- Data in Society
- Author(s):
Brad K. Blitz
Alessio D’Angelo
Eleonore Kofman
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
Different international and regional agencies count the number of persons crossing borders and internally displaced within states worldwide. Boosted in particular by conflicts in the Middle East, the number of refugees has grown to 15.1 million in 2015 and people of concern to 63.5 million. States have also sought to reduce the number recognised as Convention refugees (as defined in 1951) and are seeking to reinterpret their obligations and introducing limitations on those to be protected. The quality of data used to advance UNHCR programmes varies from one category of protected person to another, thus raising important questions for the management and delivery of protection-related services. Moreover, data are not disaggregated by age and gender, and in spite of greater efforts at multilateral cooperation, these datasets do not cover the same populations as those produced by other agencies. This chapter reviews the coverage of people of concern in the UNHCR’s guidelines and identifies gaps in the datasets used by UN and multilateral agencies tasked with the protection of refugees, IDPs and other people of concern. It suggests that these datasets need to be broadened to include other categories of vulnerable individuals and groups and that further disaggregation is needed.
Keywords: International agencies, refugees, data categories, protection services, gender
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- Title Pages
- List of figures, tables and boxes
- Notes on contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- General introduction
-
Part I How data are changing:Part I editors:Humphrey Southall andJeff Evans -
1 Statistical work: the changing occupational landscape -
2 The creation and use of big administrative data -
3 Data analytics -
4 Social media data -
Part II Counting in a globalised world:Part II editors:Sally Ruane andJeff Evans -
5 Adult skills surveys and transnational organisations: globalising educational policy -
6 Using survey data: towards valid estimates of poverty in the South -
7 Counting the population in need of international protection globally -
8 Tax justice and the challenges of measuring illicit financial flows -
Part III Statistics and the changing role of the state:Part III editors:Sally Ruane andHumphrey Southall -
9 The control and ‘fitness for purpose’ of UK official statistics -
10 The statistics of devolution -
11 Welfare reform: national policies with local impacts -
12 From ‘welfare’ to ‘workfare’, and back again? Social insecurity and the changing role of the state -
13 Access to data and NHS privatisation: reducing public accountability -
Part IV Economic life: Part IV editors:Humphrey Southall ,Sally Ruane andJeff Evans -
14 The ‘distribution question’: measuring and evaluating trends in inequality -
15 Labour market statistics -
16 The financial system: money makes the world go around -
17 The difficulty of building comprehensive tax avoidance data -
18 Tax and spend decisions: did austerity improve financial numeracy and literacy? -
Part V Inequalities in health and wellbeing: Part V editors:Sally Ruane andHumphrey Southall -
19 Health divides -
20 Measuring social wellbeing -
21 Re-engineering health policy research to measure equity impacts -
22 The Generation Game: ending the phoney information war between young and old -
Part VI Advancing social progress through critical statistical literacy: Part VI editors:Jeff Evans ,Sally Ruane andHumphrey Southall -
23 The Radical Statistics Group: using statistics for progressive social change -
24 Lyme disease politics and evidence‑based policy making in the UK -
25 Counting the uncounted: contestations over casualisation data in Australian universities -
26 The quantitative crisis in UK sociology -
27 Critical statistical literacy and interactive data visualisations -
28 Full Fact -
29 What a difference a dataset makes? Data journalism and/as data activism - Epilogue: progressive ways ahead
- Index