DEMIG POLICY data downloads
Data downloads
The database is downloadable for free in the following formats:
Stata: Complete dataset for 45 countries, except the full descriptions of policy changes.
Excel: Country datasets including the full descriptions of policy changes and codes.
If you draw on information tracked in DEMIG POLICY for your qualitative or quantitative research, please cite the database in the following way:
- DEMIG (2015) DEMIG POLICY, version 1.3, Online Edition. Oxford: International Migration Institute, University of Oxford. www.migrationdeterminants.eu
If you update or complement any aspect of DEMIG POLICY (countries, years, policy dimensions, migrant groups) for your own research, please get in touch with us. In the spirit of sharing data collection efforts with the entire academic community, we would like to make the additional data available on this homepage as an add on to DEMIG POLICY for which you will of course be credited.
Contact: demig.policy@gmail.com
© DEMIG June 2015. All rights reserved.
The DEMIG databases are protected under Directive 96/9/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases.
Accompanying documents
- DEMIG POLICY Overview gives an insight into the data available for each country.
- DEMIG POLICY Codebook provides detailed definitions of the codes used, as well as the respective numerical codes used in stata.
- DEMIG POLICY Sourcebook provides a complete bibliography of the sources used.
The following two articles offer insights into the data collection process, the rationale of the coding system developed for DEMIG POLICY, as well as its limitations:
- de Haas, H., Natter, K. and Vezzoli, S. (2014) Compiling and coding migration policies: Insights from the DEMIG POLICY database. IMI Working Paper Series 87. Oxford: International Migration Institute, University of Oxford.
- de Haas, H., Natter, K. and Vezzoli, S. (2015) Conceptualizing and measuring migration policy change. Comparative Migration Studies 3(15)
Country files (Excel)
Complete dataset (Stata)
Main limitations of DEMIG POLICY
- The focus of DEMIG POLICY was the post-1945 period, therefore historical policy changes are less comprehensively tracked.
- The focus of DEMIG POLICY was national policy making, therefore supra-national policies such as bilateral agreements are not comprehensively recorded (with the exception of post-WWII recruitment agreements) and sub-national policies are not tracked at all.
- The focus of DEMIG POLICY on migration policy change is due to its underlying aim to analyze the evolution and effectiveness of migration policies. DEMIG POLICY allows performing cross-country comparisons of the change in migration policy restrictiveness over time. It does however not allow comparing absolute levels of migration policy restrictiveness between countries at a given point in time.
Geographical coverage
| Europe | North America, Oceania | Latin America | Asia | Africa, Middle East |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austria |
Australia | Argentina | China | Israel |
| Belgium | Canada | Brazil | India | Morocco |
| Czech Republic |
New Zealand | Chile | Indonesia | South Africa |
| Czechoslovakia | United States of America | Mexico | Japan | Turkey |
| Denmark |
Russia | |||
| Finland | South Korea | |||
| France |
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| Germany | ||||
| German Democratic Republic | ||||
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| Hungary | ||||
| Iceland | ||||
| Ireland | ||||
| Italy | ||||
| Luxembourg | ||||
| Netherlands | ||||
| Norway | ||||
| Poland | ||||
| Portugal | ||||
| Slovak Republic | ||||
| Slovenia | ||||
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| Sweden | ||||
| Switzerland | ||||
| Ukraine | ||||
| United Kingdom | ||||
| Yugoslavia |
Time coverage (approximate)
| Before or since 1850 | Since 1900 | Since 1918 | Since 1945 | Since 1990 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Argentina | Australia | Austria | China | Czech Republic |
| Canada | Brazil | Belgium | Denmark | Slovak Republic |
| Chile | South Africa | Czechoslovakia* | German Democratic Republic | Slovenia |
| France | United Kingdom | Finland | Hungary | Ukraine |
| Mexico | Germany | India | ||
| New Zealand | Greece | Indonesia | ||
| United States | Iceland | Ireland | ||
| Italy | Israel | |||
| Russia | Japan | |||
| Spain | Luxembourg | |||
| Sweden | Morocco | |||
| Switzerland | Netherlands | |||
| Turkey | Norway | |||
| Yugoslavia | Poland | |||
| Portugal | ||||
| South Korea |
*Until 1990