Ministry of Migration and Asylum

General Directorate of Information and Communication Technology

196-198 Thivon Av., Ag. Ioannis Rentis, 18233, Athens, Greece

Data collection on asylum statistics contains statistical information based on the Article 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3 of Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 on Community statistics on migration and international protection.

Asylum applications:

• Asylum, first time and subsequent applicants by citizenship, age and sex (also for unaccompanied minors);
• Persons subject of asylum applications pending at the end of month by citizenship, age and sex (also for unaccompanied minors);
• Asylum applications withdrawn by citizenship, age, sex and type of withdrawal (also for unaccompanied minors);
• Asylum applicants having had their applications processed under the accelerated procedure by citizenship, age and sex (also for unaccompanied minors);
• Applicants having benefited from material reception conditions at the end of the reference year;
• Asylum applicants considered to be unaccompanied minors by citizenship, age and sex.

Decisions on asylum applications:

• First instance decisions on applications by citizenship, age, sex and type of decision (also for unaccompanied minors);
• Decisions withdrawing status granted at first instance decision by citizenship, type of decision and type of reason (also for unaccompanied minors);
• Final decisions in appeal or review on applications by citizenship, age, sex and type of decision (also for unaccompanied minors);
• Decisions withdrawing status granted as final decision in appeal or review by citizenship, type of decision and type of reason (also for unaccompanied minors).

Resettled persons:

• Resettled persons by citizenship, age and sex (also for unaccompanied minors);
• Resettled persons by citizenship, age, sex and country of previous residence;
• Resettled persons by citizenship, age, sex and type of decision;
• Resettled persons by citizenship, age, sex and resettlement framework. 

In March 2022, the European Commission activated the Temporary Protection Directive 2001/55/EC for people from Ukraine seeking refuge.

Temporary protection:

• Decisions granting temporary protection by citizenship, age and sex (also for unaccompanied minors);
• Beneficiaries of temporary protection at the end of the month by citizenship, age and sex (also for unaccompanied minors).

See table 3.2. in annex ‘Quality report tables Asylum 2023’.

Migration and asylum – Asylum statistics.

See table 3.4. in annex ‘Quality report tables Asylum 2023’.

Individuals

See table 3.6. in annex ‘Quality report tables Asylum 2023’.

Greece

See table 3.8. in annex ‘Quality report tables Asylum 2023’.

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Number of persons.

Calendar month, calendar quarter and calendar year.

The compilation of Asylum statistics is based on Regulation (EC) 862/2007 of 11 July 2007 which depicts in detail the data provisions Member States are bound to supply Eurostat with.

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Data on asylum statistics are not published at the national level. These data are disseminated monthly, quarterly and yearly through Eurostat online databases.

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Data on Asylum Statistics are used for Ministry ad-hoc publications: http://migration.gov.gr/en/

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The quality of statistical products and processes is ensured by regular updating of the database of the General Directorate of Information and Communication Technology of the Ministry of Migration and Asylum.

All quality requirements are met according to the standard quality criteria and in line with the Technical Guidelines for the data collection of Asylum Statistics.

Good Quality.

The statistics collected under Regulation (EC) 862/2007  are used by a wide range of users at national, European and International level to cover various user needs.

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See table 12.3. in annex ‘Quality report tables Asylum 2023’.

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High accuracy.

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One month after the end of the reference period.

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See table 14.2. in annex ‘Quality report tables Asylum 2023’.

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The statistics are comparable between all regions of Greece, there is only one national system of accumulating and processing the data.

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See table 15.2. in annex ‘Quality report tables Asylum 2023’.

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Asylum statistics are based on administrative data. Their production does not require any special costs or burden.

Data are revised on a continuous basis according to the most recently updated data provided by other countries.

See table 17.2. in annex ‘Quality report tables Asylum 2023’.

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Greece Asylum Service Database (Administrative source).

The collection of information/data for the production of Asylum statistics is done on a monthly basis by the Greece Asylum Service Database.

The information for Asylum Statistics is collected from the Greece Asylum Service Database in Excel format which is processed in order to produce the required datasets.

The Asylum data is entered through a management application into the Hellenic Asylum Service Database by the service's employees.

Data reports are drawn from it on a monthly basis in excel format and processed according to the given set of rules to produce the final reports in order to satisfy all possible statistics requests.

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No statistical technique applied.