Ministry of Home Affairs

General Department of immigration

26, route d'Arlon

L-2017 Luxembourg

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• Asylum applications withdrawn by citizenship, age, sex and type of withdrawal (also for unaccompanied minors);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’.

The unit is always in Persons

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

Luxembourg has only one place to lodge and register an application

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

Not applicable.

Number of persons.

Calendar month, calendar quarter and calendar year.

The Commitee for official statistics of STATEC* coordinates the statistical programs of the different national authorities, Ministries, public institutions and observatories. The General Department of immigration, being in possession of the data, is directly providing the data.

*STATEC is the national statistical authority that coordinates the national statistical system, and represents it on the international level.

On national level, data concerning international protection is shared with STATEC, the national statistical authority that coordinates the national statistical system, and represents it on the international level.

On European level, data concerning international protection is shared with Frontex, EUAA and UNHCR

The legal framework and the conceptual framework for confidentiality is the Regulation 223/2009 on European statistics is applied.

In order to guarantee confidentiality and to protect asylum seekers, when publishing press releases on national level, the General department of immigration applies the rule to not share details when the number of persons of a specific nationality is below 5.

No specific release calendar. Statistics are published during the month following the reference time

Not applicable

As long as data is not released officially, it should not be publicly shared.

Monthly

 Monthly press reports and annual report.

https://maint.gouvernement.lu/fr/dossiers/2024/statistiques-asile.html

No publications

Not applicable

Not applicable

No micro-data access

Not applicable

Not applicable

Not available

Not applicable.

Not available

Not applicable - quality is assured by manual ad-hoc controls.

Good quality.

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

Not available

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

Not applicable.

Good. It can happen that some data were not properly registered (missing data) - very rare

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable

No divergence

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

The only errors can come from recording errors (erroneous variable or missing data).

Not applicable

Not applicable

Not applicable.

Not applicable

Not applicable.

No timeliness problems

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

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

Not applicable.

Completely comparable

Not applicable.

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

Not applicable.

No incoherence noticed.

All tables are coherent.

If it appears that a claimed UAM was effectively not a minor at the application, that person will not appear anymore in table A10.

A person who makes multiple applications during the reference year will be counted only once in annual data.

Not applicable.

No internal incoherence noticed.

Not available

Not applicable

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

Not applicable.

See table 18.1. in annex ‘Quality report tables Asylum 2023’.

Database is updated on daily basis

Most of the data is extracted from the national database, no collection needed.

Exception : Table A21 is collected once a year from the National Reception Office

Data is controlled and validated monthly when data is extracted.

Not applicable

Not applicable

Not applicable

No statistical technique applied.