Preamble
The General Conference of the International Labour Organisation,
Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office, and having met in its Fourth Session on 18 October 1922, and
Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to the communication to the International Labour Office of statistical and other information regarding emigration and immigration and the repatriation and transit of emigrants, which is the second item of the agenda of the Session, and
Having decided that these proposals shall take the form of a Recommendation,
adopts this second day of November of the year one thousand nine hundred twenty-two, the following Recommendation, which may be cited as the Migration Statistics Recommendation, 1922, to be submitted to the Members of the International Labour Organisation for consideration with a view to effect being given to it by national legislation or otherwise, in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation:
I
- 1. The General Conference recommends that each Member of the International Labour Organisation should communicate to the International Labour Office all information available concerning emigration, immigration, repatriation, transit of emigrants on outward and return journeys and the measures taken or contemplated in connection with these questions.
- 2. This information should be communicated so far as possible every three months and within three months of the end of the period to which it refers.
II
The General Conference recommends that each Member of the International Labour Organisation should make every effort to communicate to the International Labour Office, within six months of the end of the year to which they refer, and so far as information is available, the total figures of emigrants and immigrants, showing separately nationals and aliens and specifying particularly, for nationals, and, as far as possible, for aliens:
- (1) sex;
- (2) age;
- (3) occupation;
- (4) nationality;
- (5) country of last residence;
- (6) country of proposed residence.
III
The General Conference recommends that each Member of the International Labour Organisation should, if possible, make agreements with other Members providing for:
- (a) the adoption of a uniform definition of the term emigrant;
- (b) the determination of uniform particulars to be entered on the identity papers issued to emigrants and immigrants by the competent authorities of Members who are parties to such agreements;
- (c) the use of a uniform method of recording statistical information regarding emigration and immigration.
