# **Table of contents**

|**Boxes, tables and figures .......................................................................................................... 3**|
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|**List of acronyms ......................................................................................................................... 4**|
|**A.**<br>**Introduction.......................................................................................................................... 5**|
|**B.**<br>**Legal, statistical and development perspectives on the global data on forced**<br>**displacement ............................................................................................................................... 7**|
|Refugees ............................................................................................................................................... 8|
|The special case of Palestinian refugees ............................................................................................ 11|
|Asylum-seekers ................................................................................................................................... 13|
|IDPs ..................................................................................................................................................... 13|
|Returnees ............................................................................................................................................ 15|
|Affected host communities .................................................................................................................. 16|
|**C.**<br>**Historical trends and patterns of forced displacement: Insights from available global**<br>**data 17**|
|**D.**<br>**Data on asylum-seekers, refugees and IDPs: sources, applications and credibility .. 31**|
|Data collection: Sources for refugees, asylum-seekers and IDPs ...................................................... 31|
|Registration of refugees and asylum-seekers ............................................................................. 33|
|Registration of IDPs ..................................................................................................................... 33|
|Profiling of IDP situations ............................................................................................................ 34|
|Population movement tracking systems ...................................................................................... 35|
|Population censuses ................................................................................................................... 35|
|Sample surveys ........................................................................................................................... 36|
|Border crossings .......................................................................................................................... 37|
|Administrative records and registers ........................................................................................... 37|
|General population registers ....................................................................................................... 37|
|Compilation of statistics on forcibly displaced populations ................................................................. 38|
|Asylum-seekers and refugees ..................................................................................................... 38|
|IDPs ............................................................................................................................................. 39|
|Disaggregated data on location, accommodation and demographics ................................................ 40|
|Overall robustness of current data ...................................................................................................... 41|
|**E.**<br>**Key data required for development policy and programming ...................................... 42**|
|Returnees ............................................................................................................................................ 43|
|Host communities ................................................................................................................................ 44|
|Socio-economic data on displaced populations, returnees and host communities ............................ 44|
|**F.**<br>**Options to improve forced displacement statistics ....................................................... 45**<br>**References ................................................................................................................................. 49**|