This guidance was prepared by the Conference of European Statisticians Task Force on Measuring Emigration, consisting of the following individuals:

Laura Cheatham (Office for National Statistics, United Kingdom, Chair of the Task Force)

Annabelle Tyrrell (Office for National Statistics, United Kingdom, Chair of the Fask Force)

Julien Berard-Chagnon (Statistics Canada)

Lorena Canon (Statistics Canada)

Ágnes Izer (Central Statistical Office, Hungary)

Cathal Doherty (Central Statistical Office, Ireland)

Francesca Licari (National Institute of Statistics, Italy)

Ance Cerina (Central Statistical Bureau, Latvia)

Eloina Meneses (National Institute of Statistics and Geography, Mexico)

Tania Chavez Montoya (National Institute of Statistics and Geography, Mexico)

María del Pilar García Velázquez (National Institute of Statistics and Geography, Mexico)

Kim Dunstan (Statistics New Zealand)

Pubudu Senanayake (Statistics New Zealand)

Kamil Waskiewicz (Statistics Poland)

Mark Gross (United States Census Bureau)

Esther Miller (United States Census Bureau)

Andrea Succi (Eurostat)

Taehoon Lee (OECD)

Cécile Thoreau (OECD)

Paolo Valente (UNECE)

Andres Vikat (UNECE)

Marlen Jigitekov (UNECE)

Maria Isabel Cobos Hernandez (UNSD)

Elena De Jesus (UNSD)

The guidance was developed and approved by the entire Task Force.

The task force wishes to thank Elona Sevrani (Institute of Statistics of Albania) who completed the questionnaire and provided information about Albania.

UNECE is grateful to all the experts who were involved in the preparation of this guidance.