Where have all the nomads gone? Fifty years of statistical and demographic invisibilities of African mobile pastoralists
Where have all the nomads gone? Fifty years of statistical and demographic invisibilities of African mobile pastoralists
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DOI：
10.1186/s13570-015-0042-9
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发表时间：
2015-12-01
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2.5
通讯作者：
Randall, Sara
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作者：
Randall, Sara
人们对移动的非洲牧民的人数和人口动态很感兴趣，同时也认识到，由于难以清点移动的个人，他们可能被低估或被排除在许多数据来源之外。在可持续发展目标中，预计每个人都将被计算在内并衡量其特征，因此必须制定适当的战略，将移动的牧民包括在内。我记录了移动的非洲牧民在上半个世纪的人口记录中被忽视的程度，并分析了不同国家在人口普查和调查数据收集工作中实现这些被忽视的不同途径。游牧民统计上的无形性，根据国家和社会政治背景的不同而有不同的形式和强度。虽然在1980年代和1990年代，两个数据来源的统计数据都大量忽略了移动的牧民，但近年来故意排除的情况已大为减少，尽管仍存在清晰度和定义问题，虽然关于移动的牧民的人口和统计数据的提供情况正在改善，不可能准确地记录这些人口在过去半个世纪中的任何变化。如果要在可持续发展目标中适当体现关于移动的牧民特征的统计数据，就需要在制定适当的类别和定义方面开展大量工作。
There is considerable interest in the numbers and population dynamics of mobile African pastoralists alongside a recognition that they are probably undercounted or excluded from many data sources because of the difficulties in enumerating mobile individuals. In the Sustainable Development Goals where it is anticipated that everyone will be counted and their characteristics measured, it is important to develop appropriate strategies for including mobile pastoralists. I document the extent to which mobile African pastoralists have been invisible in the demographic record in the last half century and analyse the diverse pathways by which these invisibilities have been brought about in census and survey data collection exercises in different countries.A careful review of available documentation for censuses and Demographic and Health Surveys for the band of countries from Mauritania across to Kenya reveals heterogeneous patterns of pastoral nomad statistical invisibility with different forms and intensities according to national and socio-political context. Whereas there was substantial statistical invisibility of mobile pastoralists in the 1980s and 1990s in both data sources, deliberate exclusion has been much reduced in recent years, although there remain issues of clarity and definition.Although the availability of demographic and statistical data on mobile pastoralists is improving, it is impossible to document with any accuracy any transformations in the numbers of these populations over the last half century. Considerable work on developing appropriate categories and definitions needs to be undertaken if statistics on the characteristics of mobile pastoralists are to be appropriately represented in the Sustainable Development Goals.