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Item 5 of the provisional agenda THE NEW EC REGULATION ON MIGRATION STATISTICS Main challenges to implement EC regulation on migration statistics: a country perspective Submitted by STATISTICS AUSTRIA Gustav Lebhart Stephan Marik-Lebeck. www.statistik.at. Item 5 of the provisional agenda
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Item 5 of the provisional agenda THE NEW EC REGULATION ON MIGRATION STATISTICS Main challenges to implement EC regulation on migration statistics: a country perspective Submitted by STATISTICS AUSTRIA Gustav Lebhart Stephan Marik-Lebeck www.statistik.at
Item 5 of the provisional agenda THE NEW EC REGULATION ON MIGRATION STATISTICS INTRODUCTION DO WE REALLY KNOW WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT WHEN IT COMES TO MIGRATION ?
Item 5 of the provisional agenda THE NEW EC REGULATION ON MIGRATION STATISTICS INTRODUCTION DO WE REALLY KNOW WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT WHEN IT COMES TO MIGRATION ? • Official migration statistics in the EU are usually closely linked to concepts and definitions of migration used in the national statistics. • comparability of in- and outflows among the EU countries is limited • only very few countries so far have implemented the UN recommendations on international migration (1998) in their national statistics • efforts to harmonise measurement concepts on international migration have achieved only little progress • Migration data in the EU25 is often based on different sources and therefore their data not seriously comparable
Item 5 of the provisional agenda THE NEW EC REGULATION ON MIGRATION STATISTICS CHALLENGE 1 DEFINITIONS OF DURATION FOR RESIDENTS AND MIGRATION • Regulation of the European Union on "Community statistics on migration and international protection“: • focus on long-term migration • persons who actually are registered in the country of destination of more than a year • register declaration of stay at the place of residence registration of more than twelve months • focus on the adoption of harmonised definition rather than on defining specific methods and data sources
Item 5 of the provisional agenda THE NEW EC REGULATION ON MIGRATION STATISTICS CHALLENGE 1 DEFINITIONS OF DURATION FOR RESIDENTS AND MIGRATION • The measurement concept according to the EU regulation… • will therefore have a significant impact on the size of migration flows (see Austria Migration Statistics) • will be less noticeable concerning the impact on the population stock (through the migration balance) • will not consider any information on short-term migration • can not be used on regional level and therefore in many countries two different numbers on int. migration will be published in future
Item 5 of the provisional agenda THE NEW EC REGULATION ON MIGRATION STATISTICS CHALLENGE 1 DEFINITIONS OF DURATION FOR RESIDENTS AND MIGRATION THE AUSTRIAN CASE • The installation of the Central Registration Register (CRR) in 2002, registrations and de-registrations, and data on people with a registered usual place of residence are sent from the CRR to STATISTICS AUSTRIA in electronic form (quarterly). • Classification of registrations follows certain basic criteria: • main (permanent) residence • actual length of stay of more than 90 days (corresponds to maximum stay without residence permit for EU citizens and usual length of visa, UN recommendation on int. migration (1998)) • flow and stock data are harmonised in two ways: one single source and one methodological measurement criteria (for all territorial units)
Item 5 of the provisional agenda THE NEW EC REGULATION ON MIGRATION STATISTICS CHALLENGE 1 DEFINITIONS OF DURATION FOR RESIDENTS AND MIGRATION THE AUSTRIAN CASE
Item 5 of the provisional agenda THE NEW EC REGULATION ON MIGRATION STATISTICS CHALLENGE 2 HARMONISATION OF MEASUREMENT PREFERENCES IN THE EU-COUNTRIES • In the 25 states of the European Union data on migration statistics is either available on surveys (e.g. Labour Force Survey; National Household Survey, …) or based on administrative registration systems. • 2/3 of EU-Member States have already implemented registration systems, but these are not always used and/or adopted for statistical harmonisation. • on the registration concept of intended duration (e.g. Sweden) • on registration data without any statistical adoption (e.g. Spain??) • on registration data in combination with statistical procedures (e.g. Austria)
Item 5 of the provisional agenda THE NEW EC REGULATION ON MIGRATION STATISTICS CHALLENGE 2 HARMONISATION OF MEASUREMENT PREFERENCES IN THE EU-COUNTRIES
Item 5 of the provisional agenda THE NEW EC REGULATION ON MIGRATION STATISTICS CHALLENGE 2 HARMONISATION OF MEASUREMENT PREFERENCES IN THE EU-COUNTRIES
Item 5 of the provisional agenda THE NEW EC REGULATION ON MIGRATION STATISTICS CHALLENGE 3 HARMONISATION OF DATA PRODUCTION • EU regulation on migration statistics defines harmonised criteria based on the 12-months concept. This represents an important step towards the international harmonisation of the measurement of migration flows (and also population stocks). • additional burdens for data producers remain (national versus international data) • limited information on migration opens again a wide range of speculation (e.g. in countries where migration statistics is based on different sources) • guidelines are required to assist Member States in correctly interpreting the requirements (“estimation procedures”) of the Regulation
Item 5 of the provisional agenda THE NEW EC REGULATION ON MIGRATION STATISTICS CHALLENGE 3 HARMONISATION OF DATA PRODUCTION • Dependent on the data availability the measurement on immigration will encounter in most of the Member States minor problems, while data on emigration simply are not available in some countries. • different levels concerning standards of data collection should therefore explicitly be defined • statistics requested under the Regulation needs well defined adaptations of tables and disaggregations • two different data sets of preliminary and final results for migration flows and population stock will remain necessary
Item 5 of the provisional agenda THE NEW EC REGULATION ON MIGRATION STATISTICS CONCLUSION WHERE WE SHOULD GET TO IN FUTURE? • The experience of methodological harmonisation and statistical procedure concerning estimations could help to define the frame for the basic requirements in population statistics for the next census round. • clear methodological concept of data source • permanent/usual residence • duration of stay • clear statistical estimation procedures concerning secured/unsecured information by priority • citizenship • country of birth • country of destination/origin
Item 5 of the provisional agenda THE NEW EC REGULATION ON MIGRATION STATISTICS CONCLUSION WHERE WE SHOULD GET TO IN FUTURE? • The measuring of migration flows still remains a key source of inconsistency in international migration statistics and similarly the main challenge for National Statistical Offices. • In the following years (“transition period”) discussion about the possibility of how to estimate migration flows should be replaced by efforts of how to harmonise data sources in the EU-member states. • What kind of “migration reality” are we going to produce in future?
Item 5 of the provisional agenda THE NEW EC REGULATION ON MIGRATION STATISTICS Main challenges to implement EC regulation on migration statistics: a country perspective Submitted by STATISTICS AUSTRIA Gustav Lebhart, PhD Stephan Marik-Lebeck, PhD www.statistik.at