Scientific Governance & Methodology

Data Sources, Taxonomies & Limitations

Ethical documentation of operational definitions, data originators, collection constraints, and analytical integrity rules.

Methodology V1.0

Population Category Definitions

Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)

Persons forced to leave their homes due to armed conflict, intercommunal violence, or natural disasters, who remain within national borders.

Governed under the 1998 Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement.

Refugees

Persons outside their country of origin due to well-founded fear of persecution, conflict, violence, or serious public disturbance.

Governed under the 1951 Refugee Convention & 1969 OAU Convention.

Returnees

Former IDPs or cross-border refugees who have returned to their habitual residence or community of origin within Ethiopia.

Monitored during the stabilization and reintegration transition.

International Migrants

Any person who changes their country of usual residence, including labor migrants and documented foreign-born residents.

Measured via UN DESA demographic stock assessments.

Official Public Publishers

IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM)Internal Displacement (IDPs) & Returnees

Update CadenceRound-based (Bimonthly)

LicensingCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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UNHCR (Refugee Data Finder & ProGres)Refugees & Registered Asylum Seekers

Update CadenceMonthly / Quarterly

LicensingUNHCR Data Terms & Conditions (CC BY 4.0 Compatible)

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UN DESA Population DivisionInternational Migrant Stock

Update CadenceBiennial / 5-Year Revisions

LicensingUN Open Data Principles

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Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)Global Internal Displacement Figures (GRID)

Update CadenceAnnual validated synthesis

LicensingCC BY 3.0 IGO

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Academic Citations & BibTeX Generator

Citation & Attribution Guidance

CC BY 4.0

Select an active humanitarian dataset to generate verified copy-to-clipboard citations in APA, Chicago, or BibTeX formats:

Primary Agency:International Organization for Migration (IOM)

APA Style (7th Edition)

International Organization for Migration. (2024). Ethiopia — Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) Site Assessment and Village Assessment Round 37 (August 2024) [Data set]. IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix. https://dtm.iom.int/ethiopia

Chicago Manual of Style (17th Edition)

International Organization for Migration (IOM). "Ethiopia — Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) Site Assessment and Village Assessment Round 37 (August 2024)." Geneva: IOM, 2024. https://dtm.iom.int/ethiopia.

BibTeX Format

@misc{iom_dtm_ethiopia_r37_2024,
  author = {{International Organization for Migration}},
  title = {Ethiopia --- Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) Site Assessment and Village Assessment Round 37 (August 2024)},
  year = {2024},
  month = {August},
  publisher = {IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix},
  url = {https://dtm.iom.int/ethiopia},
  note = {Accessed via Ethiopia Migration \& Displacement Observatory. Distributed under CC BY 4.0}
}

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Data Attribution

Explicit source credits and CC BY 4.0 academic citations for UNHCR, IOM DTM, OCHA HDX, and UN DESA.

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