This free, self-guided e-course on measuring migrant recruitment costs provides an overview of the latest international guidance to produce data on SDG Indicator 10.7.1 to monitor progress towards achieving orderly, safe, and responsible migration and mobility of people through ensuring fair recruitment practices for all.

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This course was developed by the ILO Statistics Department with support from Statistics Korea.

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Fair recruitment is an important component of a well-managed migration policy, necessary to achieve equitable and sustainable development. Migrants can face important challenges during the recruitment process, including high recruitment costs, with economic and social consequences. Measuring and monitoring the recruitment costs incurred by migrant workers is important. Data on migrant recruitment costs can help shed light on the type of costs incurred, identify the characteristics that place migrants most at risk, or the industries and migration corridors with the highest costs. 

This course is designed for staff from national statistical offices responsible for statistics on labour migration or for reporting on global commitments, including the SDG 2030 Agenda and the Global Compact on Migration. 

It can also be relevant to other national, regional, and international stakeholders In particular:

• Decision-makers
• Social partners
• Development partners
• Researchers
• Analysts

This course is structured in seven modules, each covering the different aspects of measuring migrant recruitment costs.



Module 1: Policy relevance and current status of SDG 10.7.1

Module 2:  SDG indicator 10.7.1 definition, recommended disaggregations and sources

Module 3: Defining the target population, reference period and job

Module 4: Survey options and quality considerations

Module 5: Sampling design and data collection considerations

Module 6: Survey questionnaire design

Module 7: Data processing, analysis and reporting on SDG 10.7.1

By the time you complete this course, you will have learned about:

• the policy relevance of measuring migrant recruitment costs
• the definition of migrant recruitment costs
• how to calculate SDG Indicator 10.7.1  
• the recommended measurement guidance, and how to adapt it to the national context.
• how to analyse and interpret data on SDG Indicator 10.7.1.