The constant demand for places in the ballot indicates that migration is as much sought after now as it has ever been, as one Samoan teacher said, ‘every village each year has two or three lucky ones who win the ballot’ (personal communication, italics added). Tonga has not published data on arrivals and departures since 2003 (although the Statistics Department indicated in 2011 that it was intending to resolve this problem before long). Samoa publishes summary data that were complete up to the end of2008. That shows that in every year of the present century there was a net loss to Samoa, ranging from 324 in 2006 to 10,879 in 2008, the last year on record.