Readme.txt DIOC-E (release 3.0) contains four raw data files in .csv format each covering a specific theme. File 1 - Country, County of Birth, Sex, Education and Age (100 countries of residence) File 2 - Country, County of Birth, Sex, Education and Labour Force Status (92 countries of residence) File 3 - Country, County of Birth, Sex, Education and Occupation (79 countries of residence) File 4 - Emigration Rates by Country of Birth, Sex and Education Please refer to the following publication for the full description of the database: Dumont, Jean-Christophe, Spielvogel, Gilles, and Sarah Widmaier (2010). "International Migrants in Developed, Emerging and Developing Countries: An Extended Profile", OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers No. 113. -------------------------------------------------------------- Note Israel: The statistical data for Israel are supplied by and under the responsibility of the relevant Israeli authorities. The use of such data by the OECD is without prejudice to the status of the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem and Israeli settlements in the West Bank under the terms of international law. -------------------------------------------------------------- Emigration rates by countries of origin, sex and skill level DIOC-E provides information on persons by country of birth for more than 200 countries of origin, which allows calculation of emigration rates by educational attainment for a large number of countries. The emigration rate of a given origin country i in a given year is defined as the share of the native population of country i residing abroad at this time: mi = Mi/(Mi+Ni), where Mi is the emigrant population from country i living abroad, and Ni is the native non-migrant population of country i. Most of the time, however, due to the lack of appropriate data, emigration rates are calculated without separating the native-born and foreign-born populations in origin countries, approximating the native non-migrant population by the total resident population of origin countries Pi, i.e. including immigrants. But with DIOC-E it is the possible to distinguish foreign-born and native-born persons for many origin countries (those included as destination countries in DIOC-E). Our final set of estimates comprises two versions of the emigration rates by skill level: one that includes immigrants in the native-born population of the countries of origin, i.e. uses the approximation with the total resident population (m'i = Mi/(Mi+Pi), labelled ER1), and one that makes the distinction between native residents and immigrants (mi = Mi/(Mi+Ni), labelled ER2), which is more accurate but only available for a subset of countries. --------------------------------------------------------------- List of variables in DIOC-E: COUB "Country of birth" See Table A.3 in the document "Methodology DIOC-E (release 3.0)" for the list of countries and regions FBORN "Place of birth" 1: foreign-born, 0: native-born, 99: unknown place of birth EDU_LFS "Educational attainment level" 1: no education, completed primary and uncompleted secondary education (ISCED 0/1/2), 2: completed secondary education (ISCED 3/4), 3: completed tertiary education (ISCED 5/6), 99: unknown education SEX "Sex" 1: men, 2: women, 99: unknown sex AGE_LFS "Age" 1: 15-24 years, 2: 25-64 years, 3: 65+ years, 99: unknown age LFS_LFS "Labour force status" 1: employed, 2: unemployed, 3: inactive, 99: unknown labour force status OCCUPATION "Occupation" 2-digit ISCO-88 classification and national classification for Argentina, Turkey, the United States NUMBER "Population of the cell" REG_OECD_2000 "Country of birth member of the OECD in the year 2000" 1: country of birth in the OECD, 0: country of birth not in the OECD, 99: unknown REG_OECD_2010 "Country of birth member of the OECD in the year 2010" 1: country of birth in the OECD, 0: country of birth not in the OECD, 99: unknown REG_REGIONS "Region of the country of birth" AFRI (Africa), ASIA (Asia), EURO (Europe), NOAM (North America), OCEA (Oceania), SCAC (South and Central America and Carribean), UNK (unknown) COR_OECD_2000 "Country of residence member of the OECD in the year 2000" 1: country of residence in the OECD, 0: country of residence not in the OECD COR_OECD_2010 "Country of residence member of the OECD in the year 2010" 1: country of residence in the OECD, 0: country of residence not in the OECD COR_REGIONS "Region of the country of residence" AFRI (Africa), ASIA (Asia), EURO (Europe), NOAM (North America), OCEA (Oceania), SCAC (South and Central America and Carribean) ET Emigrant population (in thousands) EL Share of primary-educated of the emigrant population EH Share of tertiary-educated of the emigrant population ERT1 Total emigration rate, including foreign-born persons in the population of the country of origin ERL1 Emigration rate of primary-educated, including foreign-born persons in the population of the country of origin ERM1 Emigration rate of secondary-educated, including foreign-born persons in the population of the country of origin ERH1 Emigration rate of tertiary-educated, including foreign-born persons in the population of the country of origin ERT2 Total emigration rate, excluding foreign-born persons in the population of the country of origin ERL2 Emigration rate of primary-educated, excluding foreign-born persons in the population of the country of origin ERM2 Emigration rate of secondary-educated, excluding foreign-born persons in the population of the country of origin ERH2 Emigration rate of tertiary-educated, excluding foreign-born persons in the population of the country of origin EDU_SOURCE "Education data source for origin countries" DIOC-E: DIOC-E (release 3.0), BL: Barro and Lee (2010), L: Lutz et al. 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