9,483 interviews were conducted in Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, Romania, Hungary, and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in 2017
About DTM`s Flow Monitoring Surveys
The flow monitoring surveys are part of the IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) activities in the Mediterranean that have started in October 2015 and were conducted within the framework of IOM’s research on populations on the move through the Mediterranean and Western Balkan Routes to Europe. Since its beginning up to the end of August 2017, DTM Mediterranean team built up a database containing more than 30,000 surveys. Surveys have been regularly analyzed providing information on migrants´profiles, vulnerabilities and transit routes. All analysis together with the latest information on arrivals to Europe can be accessed via DTM´s specialized portal on migration Flows to Europe.
The survey gathers information about migrants’ profiles, including age, sex, areas of origin, levels of education and employment status before migration, key transit points on their route, cost of the journey, reasons for moving and intentions. The revised questionnaire allows for greater insight into migrants´ decision making process in the country of origin and in the country of departure/residence including possibility to better capture secondary migration. It consists of more detailed questions on family and employment status before departure, additional child focused questions (eg. education levels, the last time a child had access to education) and it allows the interviewer to capture more locations where protection incidents occurred. The Eastern Mediterranean survey also includes six questions that are proxy indicators for potential human trafficking or exploitative practices that the respondents or other migrants traveling with them might have experienced on the route. The Central Mediterranean survey is identical with the exception of two additional pilot questions within the Human Trafficking and Other Exploitative Practices Prevalence Indication module, focusing on migrants direct or indirect experience with sexual gender based violence and physical violence during the journey.
Further information about the questionnaire, proxy indicators and survey implementation can be found in the Methodology section.
Demographic profile
This report provides analysis of migrants' demographic profile, transit routes, reasons for leaving countries of origin or habitual residence, and their future travel intentions. The analysis focuses on the comparison between top 5 migrant's nationalities surveyed travelling via the Central and Eastern Mediterranean routes,
On the Central Mediterranean route the total number of 4,712 respondents were surveyed in 2017 in 21 different locations in the Italian regions of Sicily, Apulia, Lombardy and Friuli Venezia Giulia. The sample of top five nationalities includes 2,160 interviews. On the Eastern Mediterranean route the total number of 4,771 respondents were interviewed. The sample of top 5 nationalities includes 3,824 interviews with migrants conducted in 16 different transit, exit and entry locations and reception/accommodation centres in Serbia, Greece, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Hungary and Bulgaria.