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trafficking, Target 8.8- migrant workers’ rights, Target 10.c- remittances, and
Target 16.2- trafficking of children); and (iii) as an overarching disaggregation
variable (as stated in Target 17.18). In 1990 the UN General Assembly adopted
the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant
Workers and Members of Their Families in its resolution 45/158, with a legal
definition of a migrant worker (UN, 1990). However, it is only recently that the
international community adopted a statistical definition of international labour
migration at the 20th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS) of
October 2018 (ILO, 2018). The Guidelines on statistics for SDG indicator 10.7.1
(ILO & World Bank, 2018) were also endorsed by the Inter-agency and Expert
Group on SDG Indicators (IAEG-SDGs) in November 2018. Its methodology is
therefore still new. Lao PDR LFS 2017 was among the first country-level pilot
tests to contribute to developing these Guidelines.

2. Methodology
This section covers the main concepts used in this paper in line with current
international standards, as well as the estimation methodology for SDG
indicator 10.7.1 from Lao PDR LFS 2017 data. The survey, implemented by Lao
Statistics Bureau (LSB) from mid-July to end August 2017, was a onetime
stand-alone national household survey covering a representative sample of
10,520 households.

Main concepts used in this paper
International migrant: the UN recommendations on statistics of
international migration define international migrants as “the set of persons
who have ever changed their country of usual residence, that is to say, persons
who have spent at least a year of their lives in a country other than the one in
which they live at the time the data are gathered” (UN, 1998). In practice such
information corresponds to the total number of usual residents born abroad
(foreign-born population), or usual residents who are not citizens (foreign
population), as in the recent Principles and Recommendations for Population
and Housing Censuses, Revision 3 (UN, 2017).
Migrant worker: the 1990 UN Migrant worker’s convention defines a
migrant worker as “a person who is to be engaged, is engaged or has been
engaged in a remunerated activity in a State of which he or she is not a
national” (Art.2.1). As per international migration, the reference population for
international labour migration covers all persons who are usual residents of
the measurement country. However, it also includes “persons who are not
usual residents in the country but who are, nevertheless, in the labour force or
potential labour force or any other forms of work in that country” (ILO, 2018),
with the exception of refugees and asylum seekers.

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