The course provides post-graduate students, international agency staff, NGO workers, government officials and others working in the field of migration data systems or interested in working in this field with an introduction to the demography of migration, including data sources, data collection, and analysis of migration data. The course also can be considered as a response to the first objective of the Global Compact for migration “Collect and utilize accurate and disaggregated data as a basis for evidence-based policies.”