Global Report on Important Topics 2025 – Migration

In an effort to make WAPOR more relevant to current world events and raise our profile globally, WAPOR has formed a Special Committee, the ‘Global Report on Important Topics’ (GRIT) Committee with the mandate to invite members to participate in a global study, with a new topic each year, of relevance to the UN SDGs.

This Committee has been formed and has decided that the topic to be researched this year is Migration. Please find attached a copy of the questions that we hope you will be able to run ‘pro bono’ in one of your omnibus surveys. Our member Pablo Paras is taking the lead on this project and has pretested earlier versions of the module. We hope you will be able to run some of the questions in your country in an omnibus survey so that the results can be compiled into a global study.

Pablo and his colleagues at the Cento de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas (CIDE) will compile the results and write an initial analysis. Along with any other studies completed on this topic we will present the results at next year’s WAPOR Annual Conference in Mexico City. Please contact me and Pablo (in copy) if you would like to participate in this project, we hope you will, with any questions you may have and we will provide you with the contact details and format regarding the consolidation of the data. The full data set will be made publicly available at the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research with citations to your contribution. The document contains 5 core priority questions. Please run as many as you can, but all data is valuable so if you can only run 2 or 3 questions then please do so and be a part of this year’s GRIT project. You may also wish to run some of the other short module questions if you have an interest in them and space to do so. Our only wish is to maximize WAPOR member participation and involvement.

As with all studies of this kind we do not expect this survey to answer all questions that might come to mind but rather open up opportunities for members to engage with their states and international organizations concerned with Migration. Then, when in Mexico next year we will decide on a new topic together to open up a dialogue on a new study for 2026/27.

We look forward to your participation and WAPOR’s proactive engagement in world affairs.

Very best,

Colin Irwin
Chair GRIT Committee.

Pablo Paras
Lead researcher 2025/26 on Migration

Documentation

The ‘Global Report on Important Topics’ Special Committee invited members to participate on the first GRIT study on the topic of Migration. We have had a very good response: so far 26 countries (6 LATAM + 6 Asian + 7 European + 6 Africa + 1 Oceania) have confirmed their participation and several others have expressed their interest. We aim to have data from many more as our colleagues from around the world decide to be part of this new WAPOR endeavor.

Using the following links you can download the following documents to plan your research:

• Questionnaires (4 Word versions):
  • CATI/CAPI English,
  • CATI/CAPI Spanish,
  • CAWI/Self administer English and
  • CAWI/Self administer Spanish
• Codebook (Excel)
• Country documentation form (Excel) and
• Template dataset in SPSS
• Tempate dataset in Stata (upcoming soon)

We expect that all contributions follow WAPOR’s standards. We have also started conversations with the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research to make sure the full data set is publicly available with citations to your contribution. Additionally, in support of this project, ROPER has generously offered complementary access to iPoll (that can be renewed) for those members that contribute data to GRIT.

We look forward to your participation and WAPOR’s proactive engagement in world affairs.

Very best,

Colin Irwin
Chair GRIT Committee

And

Pablo Paras
Lead researcher 2025/26 on GRIT1 Migration

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