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Haykakan Zhamanak: Migration Service avoids publishing data
The Migration Service of Armenia has not yet released statistical data
about the number of people who arrived in Armenia and left the country
in the first three months of this year, `Haykakan Zhamanak' daily
notes. This index is always published in the middle of the month
following the reporting period. The head of Migration Service Gagik
Yeganian told the newspaper's correspondent that so far they have not
received this data from the National Statistical Service of Armenia.
`A few days ago we received information that the statistical data of
departures is not published because the picture is shameful. These
statistics approximately show the growth in the number of citizens who
leave Armenia. Delaying the release of this index, statisticians are
trying to `smooth over'a bit the indices or to delay their publication
until the elections to Yerevan Council of Elders,' the paper writes.
According to the daily, to judge by the data of the first two months
of 2013, the negative balance between the number of those who arrived
and left grew 1.5-fold compared with last year. It means that a
minimum of 70 thousand people leave Armenia annually and about 330
thousand have left the country in the past five years.
http://www.aysor.am/en/news/2013/04/26/haykakan-zhamanak2/
From: A. Papazian
The Migration Service of Armenia has not yet released statistical data
about the number of people who arrived in Armenia and left the country
in the first three months of this year, `Haykakan Zhamanak' daily
notes. This index is always published in the middle of the month
following the reporting period. The head of Migration Service Gagik
Yeganian told the newspaper's correspondent that so far they have not
received this data from the National Statistical Service of Armenia.
`A few days ago we received information that the statistical data of
departures is not published because the picture is shameful. These
statistics approximately show the growth in the number of citizens who
leave Armenia. Delaying the release of this index, statisticians are
trying to `smooth over'a bit the indices or to delay their publication
until the elections to Yerevan Council of Elders,' the paper writes.
According to the daily, to judge by the data of the first two months
of 2013, the negative balance between the number of those who arrived
and left grew 1.5-fold compared with last year. It means that a
minimum of 70 thousand people leave Armenia annually and about 330
thousand have left the country in the past five years.
http://www.aysor.am/en/news/2013/04/26/haykakan-zhamanak2/
From: A. Papazian