Ministry for Home Affairs

Directorate-General for Home Policy

Sub-Directorate General for International Protection

Spanish Asylum Office

Dublin Unit - Spain

Calle San Fernando del Jarama 14, Office 312

28071 - Madrid

Spain

Statistics on the 2022 consolidated figures by Dublin Unit - Spain.

This metadata information is provided by the authorities of Spain to ensure compliance with the requirements of Article 4.4 (Dublin statistics) of the Regulation (EC) 862/2007 on Migration and International Protection as amended by the Regulation (EU) 2020/851.

As required by Article 9 of the Regulation (EC) 862/2007, Member States must report to Eurostat on the data sources used, the reasons for the selection of these sources and the effects of the selected data on the quality of the statistics. Member States shall provide Eurostat with all the information necessary to evaluate the quality, comparability and completeness of the statistical information.

The reference document used for assessing the compliance of the concepts and definitions in this metadata file is the document Dublin statistics - Eurostat Technical guidelines to Dublin statistics (see Annex).

All statistical data are stored in the Asylum national database "ASILO", owned by the Ministry for Home Affairs, Sub-Directorate for International Protection.

See below.

Migration and international protection – Dublin statistics

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The text of Art.4 of the Regulation (EC) 862/2007 on Migration and international protection refers in general to statistics based on the number of persons and not on the number of applications. However, the article describing the 'Dublin' statistics (Art.4.4) refers to statistics based on the number of requests. Commission services recommend that Art.4.4 (more precisely 4.4.a, 4.4.c and 4.4.d) is interpreted as referring to the number of persons concerned by each request, decision and transfer.

Third-country nationals subject to a Dublin Procedure, as established in III Dublin Regulation, at the Dublin Unit - Spain.

Spain.

Statistical series compiled since 2014.

Not applicable.

Number of persons.

Calendar year 2022.

Act 12/1989 on Compulsory Public Statistics. https://www.boe.es/buscar/pdf/1989/BOE-A-1989-10767-consolidado.pdf

Royal Decree 1110/2020, on the pluri-annual 2021-2024 Compulsory Statistics Plan. https://www.boe.es/buscar/doc.php?id=BOE-A-2020-17283

Article 4.4 (Dublin statistics) of Regulation (EC) 862/2007 on Community Statistics on Migration and International Protection.  https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32007R0862

Royal Decree 734/2020, on the structure and competencies of the Ministry for Home Affairs. https://www.boe.es/buscar/doc.php?id=BOE-A-2020-9138

Not Applicable. No additional data holders or providers in Spain.

Dublin statistical data provided respect all confidentiality clauses established in European and National data protection frameworks:

1) Spanish Data Protection and Digital Rights Act 3/2018, art. 5, that refers to Regulation (EU) 2016/79.

2) Regulation (EU) 2016/79 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data.

See below.

No existence of such a restrictive policy at national level.

Not available.

Not available.

Not available.

Dublin statistical data provided respect all confidentiality clauses established in European and National data protection frameworks:

1) Spanish Data Protection and Digital Rights Act 3/2018, art. 5, that refers to Regulation (EU) 2016/79.

2) Regulation (EU) 2016/79 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data. 

No specific release policy exists at national level. The Ministry for Home Affairs forwards monthly and quarterly reports including some general and partial information on Dublin statistics.

Official statistical data on Dublin are officially released within the Annual Asylum Report published in September-October of the following year at the Ministry´s website, https://www.interior.gob.es/opencms/es/servicios-al-ciudadano/tramites-y-gestiones/oficina-de-asilo-y-refugio/datos-e-informacion-estadistica/

https://www.interior.gob.es/opencms/es/servicios-al-ciudadano/tramites-y-gestiones/oficina-de-asilo-y-refugio/datos-e-informacion-estadistica/

No specific release policy exists. Dissemination of statistical data to all users at the time of publishing at the website. No specific policy for briefing the press in advance of the release of the data.

Quarterly reports: Only total Dublin requests accepted and refused.

Yearly: Asylum Office Situation Report: Total requests accepted and refused, main nationalities and transfers figures.

No specific accessibility criteria applies but general rules on data protection and confidentiality for specific request to the Asylum Office.

No specific format for data release. It depends on the specific request for data or information.

Spanish Asylum Office - Yearly Activity Report: Electronic and printed version. https://www.interior.gob.es/opencms/es/archivos-y-documentacion/documentacion-y-publicaciones/publicaciones/publicaciones-descargables/proteccion-internacional/asilo-en-cifras/

Ministry for Home Affairs Annual Reports: Electronic and printed version. https://www.interior.gob.es/opencms/es/archivos-y-documentacion/documentacion-y-publicaciones/anuarios-y-estadisticas/

No specific format for Dublin stats. General info on International Protection in Spain at https://www.interior.gob.es/opencms/es/servicios-al-ciudadano/tramites-y-gestiones/oficina-de-asilo-y-refugio/datos-e-informacion-estadistica/

Not available.

No specific micro-data access available.

Not applicable.

Not available.

The methodology is based on the national legal framework on statistics mentioned above (see institutional mandate).

Not available.

Not available.

No specific quality management framework or system currently in force in terms of Dublin statistics.

No standard quality assurance currently in force. Internal Cross-check of data generated by the Asylum Office and data obtained by the TIC sub-Directorate within the Ministry for Home Affairs.

Evaluation of data discrepancies after internal cross-check and bilateral meetings with TIC Sub-Directorate.

• Good quality (extensive quality) - all quality requirements are met according to the standard quality criteria and in line with the Technical Guidelines for the data collection of Dublin statistics (Annex).
• Sufficient quality (acceptable quality) - minimum quality requirements are met: minor issues exist which need to be improved.
• Poor quality (inadequate quality) - the data do not meet the minimum quality requirements: important/many issues exist which affect the quality of the data and which need to be solved.

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 usersʼ needs.

Users of Dublin statistics: Open to any user in need of information not including personal data.

Unmet user needs (on statistics) and reasons why these needs cannot be satisfied (at national and international level) : Not Available. No user needs stated or identified. 

Not Available. No existing tools to measure usersʼ satisfaction.

See below.

100%

Completeness is the extent to which all requested Dublin statistics are provided to Eurostat, according to the data provisions foreseen by Articles 4.4. of Regulation (EC) 862/2007 (as amended by Regulation (EU) 2020/851) and by the Technical Guidelines for Dublin statistics (Annex).

• Complete - The statistics are complete: the dataset and all requested breakdowns are available, as foreseen by Regulation (EC) 862/2007 (as amended by Regulation (EU) 2020/851) and the Technical Guidelines for the data collection of Dublin statistics (Annex)
• Incomplete - The statistics are incomplete: the dataset is available but some of the requested breakdowns are not available, as foreseen by Regulation (EC) 862/2007 (as amended by Regulation (EU) 2020/851) and the Technical Guidelines for the data collection of Dublin statistics (Annex)
• Not available - The statistics are not available: the dataset is not available, that is all the requested breakdowns are missing, as foreseen by Regulation (EC) 862/2007 (as amended by Regulation (EU) 2020/851) and the Technical Guidelines for the data collection of Dublin statistics (Annex)
• Not applicable - The statistics are Not applicable: the concept/process is not used or it does not exist in the country

High level of accuracy (more than 95%).

Accuracy is the closeness of the data to the exact or true values that the statistics were intended to measure. Reliability is the closeness of the initial provided value to the subsequent (revised) value.

Assessment of the accuracy of the national Dublin statistics, at dataset level

• High = 100 % accuracy. The reported statistics measure accurately the target population, as foreseen by Regulation (EC) 862/2007 (as amended by Regulation (EU) 2020/851) and as defined in the Technical Guidelines for Dublin statistics (Annex)
• Good = 95 - 99 % accuracy. The reported statistics do not cover accurately the target population and a small part of the targeted population is missing, or a small part of non-targeted (erroneous) population is included in the reported statistics; the bias/error in the reported statistics is expected to be small
• Low = 80 - 94 % accuracy. The reported statistics do not cover accurately the target population and a large part of the targeted population is missing, or a large part of non-targeted (erroneous) population is included in the reported statistics; the bias/error in the reported statistics is expected to be large
• Very low = less than 80 % accuracy. The reported statistics do not cover accurately the target population and a very large part of the targeted population is missing, or a very large part of non-targeted (erroneous) population is included in the reported statistics; the bias/error in the reported statistics is expected to be very large

Not available.

Not applicable.

Not available.

See below.

See the file ‘Proportion of units (persons) reported in the statistics that do not belong to the target populationʼ in annex.

Not available.

See concept 13.3.4 Processing Error.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not available.

Not applicable.

See below concepts 14.1.1 and 14.1.2.

- Number of days (on average) after the end of the reference period at which the country is able to report the first/preliminary data, at the earliest : 2 months

- Reasons for possible long production of the first/preliminary data and plans to improve the situation : Time limits of pending procedures at the end of the year.

- Number of days (on average) after the end of the reference period at which the country is able to report the final data, at the earliest : 3 months

- Reasons for possible long production of the final data and plans to improve the situation : Discrepancies between final data obtained by TIC Unit and those obtained by Dublin Unit. Adjustments to the automatic processing of data after discrepancies arisen from cross-check. 

2022 data were provided almost on time due to internal high workload. 

2022 delivery was almost on time.

Not available.

See below.

Not available.

Assessment of possible sources of lack of comparability between countries, due to discrepancies from Eurostat concepts, definitions or due to differences in methods.

100% if definitions remains unchanged.

2014-2022

Not available.

High level of coherence.

Not applicable.

Not available.

No calculation on Cost and burden has been made so far. Only cost that could be calculated is the workload in terms of hours/days of work.

Due to the automatization of statistical data gathering, no values changes have been identified so far, so no data revision procedures were put in place.

Cross-check of data gathering from two separate units in charge of statistics. 

In case of discrepancies, bilateral meetings between the Dublin Unit and the TIS Sub-Directorate of the Ministry for Home Affairs take place to identify the differences in values obtained.

Discrepancies between the statistics collected by two different Units and cross-checked.

See below.

The size of revision gives an idea of the stability of the data while direction is important to understand whether preliminary data tend to overestimate or underestimate the real target population.

Not available.

Administrative Database Software "ASILO", owned by the Spanish Ministry for Home Affairs, Sub-Directorate for International Protection.

Monthly, quarterly and yearly.

Automated/manual data collection by Unit Analyst and TIC Unit.

Cross-check of data obtained by two different administrative Units. Validation made by the Dublin Unit.

Automatic gathering from the database.

Not available.

Coordination and agreements with TIC Unit to conform data to Eurostat standards.

Not applicable.