| # | census_year | geography | geography_level | area | sex | migration_type | topic | category | value | unit |
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| COLUMN | TYPE | DESCRIPTION | UNIT |
|---|---|---|---|
| census_year | int64 | Census reference year. Always 2022 - RPHC4 (2012) migration is PDF-only. | - |
| geography | string | Geographic unit name. Rwanda (national) or one of five provinces (City of Kigali, Southern Province, Western Province, Northern Province, Eastern Province). topic=migration_rate has national + province rows; topic=migration_flow and migration_effectiveness are province only. | - |
| geography_level | string | Geographic level - national or province | - |
| area | string | Urban/rural breakdown - total, urban, or rural. Only topic=migration_rate publishes an area breakdown; migration_flow and migration_effectiveness are always area=total. | - |
| sex | string | Sex breakdown - male, female, or both_sexes. Only topic=migration_rate publishes a sex breakdown; migration_flow and migration_effectiveness are always sex=both_sexes. | - |
| migration_type | string | lifetime (migrants who currently live outside their province of birth) or recent (migrants who changed district of residence within the last 5 years). Published for every topic. | - |
| topic | string | Indicator topic. Values: migration_rate (% of population that are migrants), migration_flow (% distribution of migrants by origin province/Abroad x destination province), migration_effectiveness (in/out/net/gross migration counts and effectiveness ratio by province). | - |
| category | string | For topic=migration_flow, the origin province (or "Abroad") of the migrant. For topic=migration_effectiveness, one of in_migrants, out_migrants, net_migration, gross_migration, effectiveness_ratio. Null for topic=migration_rate. | - |
| value | float64 | Indicator value, scale depends on unit. migration_rate and migration_flow: percentage (0-100). migration_effectiveness in/out/net/gross migration: person counts (net_migration can be negative). effectiveness_ratio: net/gross migration ratio in [-1, 1] (negative indicates net out-migration). | - |
| unit | string | Unit of the value column. Values: percent (migration_rate, migration_flow), count (migration_effectiveness in/out/net/gross migration), ratio (migration_effectiveness effectiveness_ratio). | - |
import imibare as imi
df = imi.load("rw.nisr.phc-migration.irregular")
print(df.head())import duckdb
duckdb.sql("""
SELECT *
FROM read_parquet('https://api.imibare.org/v1/data/rw.nisr.phc-migration.irregular/download')
LIMIT 10
""").show()curl -L "https://api.imibare.org/v1/data/rw.nisr.phc-migration.irregular/download" \
-o "rw.nisr.phc-migration.irregular.parquet"# List all datasets
curl "https://api.imibare.org/v1/datasets"
# Get metadata for this dataset
curl "https://api.imibare.org/v1/datasets/rw.nisr.phc-migration.irregular"Every version is a change in the data, and every one is retained; snapshots are never overwritten. Each entry is a dated Parquet snapshot in the dataset's versions/ archive.
- 2026-06-11 Jun 11, 2026 LATEST218 rows · 8.0 KB · initial version
National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda. (2026). PHC Migration and Spatial Mobility [Data set] (Version 2026-06-11). Distributed by imibare. https://imibare.org/datasets/rw.nisr.phc-migration.irregular
@dataset{imibare_rw_nisr_phc-migration_irregular, author = {National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda}, title = {PHC Migration and Spatial Mobility}, year = {2026}, version = {2026-06-11}, howpublished = {Distributed by imibare}, url = {https://imibare.org/datasets/rw.nisr.phc-migration.irregular} }
National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda. PHC Migration and Spatial Mobility. Version 2026-06-11. Distributed by imibare, 2026. https://imibare.org/datasets/rw.nisr.phc-migration.irregular.
National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda. PHC Migration and Spatial Mobility. Version 2026-06-11, distributed by imibare, 2026, https://imibare.org/datasets/rw.nisr.phc-migration.irregular.