'Dublin' statistics (migr_dub)

National Reference Metadata in Single Integrated Metadata Structure (SIMS)

Compiling agency: Migration Department under the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Lithuania


Eurostat metadata
Reference metadata
1. Contact
2. Metadata update
3. Statistical presentation
4. Unit of measure
5. Reference Period
6. Institutional Mandate
7. Confidentiality
8. Release policy
9. Frequency of dissemination
10. Accessibility and clarity
11. Quality management
12. Relevance
13. Accuracy
14. Timeliness and punctuality
15. Coherence and comparability
16. Cost and Burden
17. Data revision
18. Statistical processing
19. Comment
Related Metadata
Annexes (including footnotes)



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1. Contact Top

 
1.1. Contact organisation

Migration Department under the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Lithuania
1.2. Contact organisation unit

Administration Division
1.5. Contact mail address

L. Sapiegos str. 1

LT-10312 Vilnius


2. Metadata update Top
2.1. Metadata last certified 25/11/2022
2.2. Metadata last posted 25/11/2022
2.3. Metadata last update 21/04/2023


3. Statistical presentation Top
3.1. Data description

This metadata information is provided by the authorities of the Migration Department under the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Lithuania 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).
3.1.1. General description and overview of the statistical domain at national level

Not available.
3.2. Classification system

See below.
3.2.1. International and national classifications and breakdowns used
Classification Eurostat breakdown National breakdown
Request Total, Request, Re-examination request, Unknown  Total, Request, Re-examination request, Unknown
Decision on request Total, Positive decision, Negative decision, Unknown  Total, Positive decision, Negative decision, Unknown
Legal provision (Dublin criteria) Please consult the latest Technical Guidelines documentation (in Annex)  Please consult the latest Technical Guidelines documentation (in Annex)
Duration of transfer Total, From 1 to 6 months, From 7 to 12 months, From 13 to 18 months, Unknown  Total, From 1 to 6 months, From 7 to 12 months, From 13 to 18 months, Unknown
Duration of response to a request for information Total, 5 weeks or less, Over 5 weeks, Unknown  Total, 5 weeks or less, Over 5 weeks, Unknown
Sex Total, Males, Females, Unknown  Total, Males, Females, Unknown
Applicant Total, Adult, Unaccompanied minor, Accompanied minor, Unknown  Total, Adult, Unaccompanied minor, Accompanied minor, Unknown
3.3. Coverage - sector

Migration and international protection – Dublin statistics
3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions

See below.
3.4.1. Definitions and discrepancies
Concept / Variable Definition at national level Discrepancy from Eurostat definition
Request Requests to take back to take charge of an asylum applicant or requests for information addressed by the Member States (Partner) to the declaring Member State (Geo) (resp. by the declaring Member State (Geo) to the Member States (Partner))  -
Re-examination request A further request to take back/charge of an applicant following the receipt of a negative reply on the original request to the same Member State and has to be made within three weeks following the receipt of the negative reply.  -
Request based on Eurodac Requests to take back to take charge of an asylum applicant or requests for information addressed by the Member States (Partner) to the declaring Member State (Geo) (resp. by the declaring Member State (Geo) to the Member States (Partner)) based on Eurodac hits  -
Transfer Physical transfer of the asylum applicant from the requesting Member State to the Member State that has accepted to take charge/take back an asylum applicant  -
Responsibility by default (Art. 3.2 First paragraph): no prior criteria applicable Please consult the latest Technical Guidelines documentation (Annex)  -
Responsibility by default (Art. 3.2 Second and third paragraph): no transfer Please consult the latest Technical Guidelines documentation (Annex)  -
Responsibility by default (Art. 29.2): transfer not implemented Please consult the latest Technical Guidelines documentation (Annex)  -
3.5. Statistical unit

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.
3.6. Statistical population

All the requested statistics relate only to third country nationals submitting an application of asylum under the Dublin Regulation.
3.7. Reference area

Lithuania.
3.8. Coverage - Time

Since 2008.
3.9. Base period

Not applicable.


4. Unit of measure Top

Number (number of requests, number of decisions, number of transfers, etc.).


5. Reference Period Top

2021 Calendar year.


6. Institutional Mandate Top
6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements

The compilation of Dublin statistics is based on Article 4.4 of Regulation (EC) 862/2007 of 11 July 2007 which depicts in details the data provisions Member States are bound to supply Eurostat with.
6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing

Not applicable.


7. Confidentiality Top
7.1. Confidentiality - policy

See below.
7.1.1. Information on the existence of a national policy for (not) releasing the Dublin data before a certain time after the end of reference period has passed

Law on Legal Protection of Personal Data of the Republic of Lithuania.
7.1.2. Required confidentiality by law and signed legal confidentiality commitments by survey staff

All survey stuff signs confidentiality commitments.
7.1.3. Potential micro-data access for research purposes by external users and confidentiality provisions applied

Not applicable.
7.1.4. Procedures for ensuring confidentiality during collection, processing and dissemination, including rules for determining confidential cells

During processing and dissemination of statistical information, depersonalized data from the Register of Foreigners and the Lithuanian Migration Information System are used.
7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment

Not applicable.


8. Release policy Top
8.1. Release calendar

Not applicable.
8.2. Release calendar access

Not applicable.
8.3. Release policy - user access

In line with the Community legal framework and the European Statistics Code of Practice Eurostat disseminates European statistics on Eurostat's website respecting professional independence and in an objective, professional and transparent manner in which all users are treated equitably. The detailed arrangements are governed by the Eurostat protocol on impartial access to Eurostat data for users.


9. Frequency of dissemination Top

Although data periodicity is annual, data is updated on a continuous basis following any new incoming data transmission (first or revised data).


10. Accessibility and clarity Top
10.1. Dissemination format - News release

Not applicable.
10.2. Dissemination format - Publications

Not applicable.
10.3. Dissemination format - online database

Please consult Eurostat online database: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/data/database
10.3.1. Data tables - consultations

Not applicable.
10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access

Not applicable.
10.5. Dissemination format - other

Not applicable.
10.5.1. Metadata - consultations

Not applicable.
10.6. Documentation on methodology

See Eurostat Technical guidelines to Dublin statistics (Annex)
10.6.1. Metadata completeness - rate

Not applicable.
10.7. Quality management - documentation

Legal act of the organization - Description of the procedure for statistical information processing and quality monitoring. Available only in Lithuanian. 


11. Quality management Top
11.1. Quality assurance

Requested data are being compiled following the guidelines and instructions provided by Eurostat.
11.2. Quality management - assessment

In order to impartially evaluate the quality of the statistical information being prepared, inspections of the statistical information preparation process are carried out, and if necessary, the process is adjusted. These checks are carried out after recording a discrepancy in statistical information or after receiving notifications about the inaccuracies of this information from employees of the Migration Department under the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Lithuania, who are responsible for analyzing the quality of statistical data or users of statistical information.
11.2.1. Overall quality assessment, at dataset level

 Dataset

 Quality

Details in case of Sufficient or Poor quality

Incoming 'Dublin' requests by submitting country (PARTNER), type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant

 Sufficient quality

Due to the temporary technical issues, disaggregations by sex and type of applicant can only be provided by the breakdown "Unknown" 

Outgoing 'Dublin' requests by receiving country (PARTNER), type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant

 Sufficient quality

Due to the temporary technical issues, disaggregations by sex and type of applicant can only be provided by the breakdown "Unknown" 

Incoming 'Dublin' requests based on EURODAC by submitting country (PARTNER), type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant

 Sufficient quality

Due to the temporary technical issues, disaggregations by sex and type of applicant can only be provided by the breakdown "Unknown" 

Outgoing 'Dublin' requests based on EURODAC by receiving country (PARTNER), type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant

 Sufficient quality

Due to the temporary technical issues, disaggregations by sex and type of applicant can only be provided by the breakdown "Unknown" 

Pending 'Dublin' incoming requests by submitting country (PARTNER), type of request, sex and type of applicant

 Sufficient quality

Due to the temporary technical issues, disaggregations by sex and type of applicant can only be provided by the breakdown "Unknown" 

Pending 'Dublin' outgoing requests by receiving country (PARTNER), type of request, sex and type of applicant

 Sufficient quality

Due to the temporary technical issues, disaggregations by sex and type of applicant can only be provided by the breakdown "Unknown" 

Incoming 'Dublin' requests for information by submitting country (PARTNER), legal provision, sex and type of applicant

 Sufficient quality

Due to the temporary technical issues, disaggregations by sex and type of applicant can only be provided by the breakdown "Unknown" 

Outgoing 'Dublin' requests for information by receiving country (PARTNER), legal provision, sex and type of applicant

 Sufficient quality

Due to the temporary technical issues, disaggregations by sex and type of applicant can only be provided by the breakdown "Unknown" 

Incoming responses to 'Dublin' requests for information by submitting country (PARTNER), legal provision, duration of response, sex and type of applicant

 Sufficient quality

Due to the temporary technical issues, disaggregations by sex and type of applicant can only be provided by the breakdown "Unknown" 

Outgoing responses to 'Dublin' requests for information by receiving country (PARTNER), legal provision, duration of response, sex and type of applicant

 Sufficient quality

Due to the temporary technical issues, disaggregations by sex and type of applicant can only be provided by the breakdown "Unknown" 

Unilateral 'Dublin' decisions by partner country, type of decision, sex and type of applicant

 Sufficient quality

Due to the temporary technical issues, disaggregations by sex and type of applicant can only be provided by the breakdown "Unknown" 

Decisions on incoming 'Dublin' requests by submitting country (PARTNER), type of decision, type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant

 Sufficient quality

Due to the temporary technical issues, disaggregations by sex and type of applicant can only be provided by the breakdown "Unknown" 

Decisions on outgoing 'Dublin' requests by receiving country (PARTNER), type of decision, type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant

 Sufficient quality

Due to the temporary technical issues, disaggregations by sex and type of applicant can only be provided by the breakdown "Unknown" 

Decisions on Incoming 'Dublin' requests based on EURODAC by submitting country (PARTNER), type of decision, type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant

 Sufficient quality

Due to the temporary technical issues, disaggregations by sex and type of applicant can only be provided by the breakdown "Unknown" 

Decisions on outgoing 'Dublin' requests based on EURODAC by receiving country (PARTNER), type of decision, type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant

 Sufficient quality

Due to the temporary technical issues, disaggregations by sex and type of applicant can only be provided by the breakdown "Unknown" 

Incoming 'Dublin' transfers by submitting country (PARTNER), legal provision, duration of transfer, sex and type of applicant

 Sufficient quality

Due to the temporary technical issues, disaggregations by sex and type of applicant can only be provided by the breakdown "Unknown" 

Outgoing 'Dublin' transfers by receiving country (PARTNER), legal provision, duration of transfer, sex and type of applicant

 Sufficient quality

Due to the temporary technical issues, disaggregations by sex and type of applicant can only be provided by the breakdown "Unknown" 

Pending incoming 'Dublin' transfers by submitting country (PARTNER), sex and type of applicant

 Sufficient quality

Due to the temporary technical issues, disaggregations by sex and type of applicant can only be provided by the breakdown "Unknown" 

Pending outgoing 'Dublin' transfers by receiving country (PARTNER), sex and type of applicant

 Sufficient quality

 Due to the temporary technical issues, disaggregations by sex and type of applicant can only be provided by the breakdown "Unknown" 

 

  • 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.


12. Relevance Top
12.1. Relevance - User Needs

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 :

  • various policy DGs in the European Commission, such as DG Migration and Home Affairs and the European Union Asylum Agency for designing, funding and implementing asylum related policies in the EU
  • European Parliament
  • national authorities (Ministries of Interior, Ministries of Justice, Migration agencies) that use Dublin and Asylum data to monitor or develop their national asylum  procedures
  • the European Migration Network (EMN) which uses the data as a basis for its annual EU- and national-level statistical and analytical reports
  • researchers and students conducting analysis and research in the field of asylum
  • journalists and international organisations in the area of asylum and migration

Unmet user needs (on statistics) and reasons why these needs cannot be satisfied (at national and international level) : Not available
12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction

Not available.
12.3. Completeness

See below.
12.3.1. Data completeness - rate

50%
12.3.2. Completeness by dataset

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).

 

Dataset

Completeness

Details in case of Incomplete, Not available or Not applicable

Incoming 'Dublin' requests by submitting country (PARTNER), type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant

 Incomplete

 sex and type of applicant - available only "Unknown" breakdown

Outgoing 'Dublin' requests by receiving country (PARTNER), type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant

 Incomplete

 sex and type of applicant - available only "Unknown" breakdown

Incoming 'Dublin' requests based on EURODAC by submitting country (PARTNER), type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant

 Incomplete

 sex and type of applicant - available only "Unknown" breakdown

Outgoing 'Dublin' requests based on EURODAC by receiving country (PARTNER), type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant

 Incomplete

 sex and type of applicant - available only "Unknown" breakdown

Pending 'Dublin' incoming requests by submitting country (PARTNER), type of request, sex and type of applicant

 Incomplete

sex and type of applicant - available only "Unknown" breakdown

Pending 'Dublin' outgoing requests by receiving country (PARTNER), type of request, sex and type of applicant

 Incomplete

sex and type of applicant - available only "Unknown" breakdown

Incoming 'Dublin' requests for information by submitting country (PARTNER), legal provision, sex and type of applicant

 Incomplete

sex and type of applicant - available only "Unknown" breakdown

Outgoing 'Dublin' requests for information by receiving country (PARTNER), legal provision, sex and type of applicant

 Incomplete

sex and type of applicant - available only "Unknown" breakdown

Incoming responses to 'Dublin' requests for information by submitting country (PARTNER), legal provision, duration of response, sex and type of applicant

 Incomplete

sex and type of applicant - available only "Unknown" breakdown

Outgoing responses to 'Dublin' requests for information by receiving country (PARTNER), legal provision, duration of response, sex and type of applicant

 Incomplete

sex and type of applicant - available only "Unknown" breakdown

Unilateral 'Dublin' decisions by partner country, type of decision, sex and type of applicant

 Incomplete

sex and type of applicant - available only "Unknown" breakdown

Decisions on incoming 'Dublin' requests by submitting country (PARTNER), type of decision, type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant

 Incomplete

sex and type of applicant - available only "Unknown" breakdown

Decisions on outgoing 'Dublin' requests by receiving country (PARTNER), type of decision, type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant

 Incomplete

sex and type of applicant - available only "Unknown" breakdown

Decisions on Incoming 'Dublin' requests based on EURODAC by submitting country (PARTNER), type of decision, type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant

 Incomplete

sex and type of applicant - available only "Unknown" breakdown

Decisions on outgoing 'Dublin' requests based on EURODAC by receiving country (PARTNER), type of decision, type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant

 Incomplete

sex and type of applicant - available only "Unknown" breakdown

Incoming 'Dublin' transfers by submitting country (PARTNER), legal provision, duration of transfer, sex and type of applicant

 Incomplete

 sex and type of applicant - available only "Unknown" breakdown

Outgoing 'Dublin' transfers by receiving country (PARTNER), legal provision, duration of transfer, sex and type of applicant

 Incomplete

sex and type of applicant - available only "Unknown" breakdown

Pending incoming 'Dublin' transfers by submitting country (PARTNER), sex and type of applicant

 Incomplete

sex and type of applicant - available only "Unknown" breakdown

Pending outgoing 'Dublin' transfers by receiving country (PARTNER), sex and type of applicant

 Incomplete

sex and type of applicant - available only "Unknown" breakdown

 

  • 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


13. Accuracy Top
13.1. Accuracy - overall

The reported statistics measure accurately the target population, as foreseen by Regulation (EC) 862/2007 and as defined in the Technical Guidelines for Dublin statistics (Annex).
13.1.1. Assessment of the accuracy of the national Dublin statistics by dataset

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

Dataset

Accuracy

Summary of main sources of error in case of Good/Low/Very low Accuracy

Incoming 'Dublin' requests by submitting country (PARTNER), type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant

 High

 

Outgoing 'Dublin' requests by receiving country (PARTNER), type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant

 High

 

Incoming 'Dublin' requests based on EURODAC by submitting country (PARTNER), type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant

 High

 

Outgoing 'Dublin' requests based on EURODAC by receiving country (PARTNER), type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant

High

 

Pending 'Dublin' incoming requests by submitting country (PARTNER), type of request, sex and type of applicant

 High

 

Pending 'Dublin' outgoing requests by receiving country (PARTNER), type of request, sex and type of applicant

 High

 

Incoming 'Dublin' requests for information by submitting country (PARTNER), legal provision, sex and type of applicant

 High

 

Outgoing 'Dublin' requests for information by receiving country (PARTNER), legal provision, sex and type of applicant

 High

 

Incoming responses to 'Dublin' requests for information by submitting country (PARTNER), legal provision, duration of response, sex and type of applicant

 High

 

Outgoing responses to 'Dublin' requests for information by receiving country (PARTNER), legal provision, duration of response, sex and type of applicant

 High

 

Unilateral 'Dublin' decisions by partner country, type of decision, sex and type of applicant

 High

 

Decisions on incoming 'Dublin' requests by submitting country (PARTNER), type of decision, type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant

 High

 

Decisions on outgoing 'Dublin' requests by receiving country (PARTNER), type of decision, type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant

 High

 

Decisions on Incoming 'Dublin' requests based on EURODAC by submitting country (PARTNER), type of decision, type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant

 High

 

Decisions on outgoing 'Dublin' requests based on EURODAC by receiving country (PARTNER), type of decision, type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant

 High

 

Incoming 'Dublin' transfers by submitting country (PARTNER), legal provision, duration of transfer, sex and type of applicant

 High

 

Outgoing 'Dublin' transfers by receiving country (PARTNER), legal provision, duration of transfer, sex and type of applicant

 High

 

Pending incoming 'Dublin' transfers by submitting country (PARTNER), sex and type of applicant

 High

 

Pending outgoing 'Dublin' transfers by receiving country (PARTNER), sex and type of applicant

 High

 

  

  • 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
13.2. Sampling error

Not applicable.
13.2.1. Sampling error - indicators

Not applicable.
13.3. Non-sampling error

See below.
13.3.1. Coverage error

See below.
13.3.1.1. Over-coverage - rate

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



Annexes:
Proportion of units (persons) reported in the statistics that do not belong to the target population
13.3.1.2. Common units - proportion

Not applicable.
13.3.1.3. Assessment of potential coverage errors

Dataset

Coverage errors - Discrepancies from Eurostat target population

Summary of main sources of errors in case of errors and/or discrepancies from Eurostat practice

Incoming 'Dublin' requests by submitting country (PARTNER), type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant

 No

 

Outgoing 'Dublin' requests by receiving country (PARTNER), type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant

  No

 

Incoming 'Dublin' requests based on EURODAC by submitting country (PARTNER), type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant

  No

 

Outgoing 'Dublin' requests based on EURODAC by receiving country (PARTNER), type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant

  No

 

Pending 'Dublin' incoming requests by submitting country (PARTNER), type of request, sex and type of applicant

  No

 

Pending 'Dublin' outgoing requests by receiving country (PARTNER), type of request, sex and type of applicant

  No

 

Incoming 'Dublin' requests for information by submitting country (PARTNER), legal provision, sex and type of applicant

  No

 

Outgoing 'Dublin' requests for information by receiving country (PARTNER), legal provision, sex and type of applicant

  No

 

Incoming responses to 'Dublin' requests for information by submitting country (PARTNER), legal provision, duration of response, sex and type of applicant

  No

 

Outgoing responses to 'Dublin' requests for information by receiving country (PARTNER), legal provision, duration of response, sex and type of applicant

  No

 

Unilateral 'Dublin' decisions by partner country, type of decision, sex and type of applicant

  No

 

Decisions on incoming 'Dublin' requests by submitting country (PARTNER), type of decision, type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant

  No

 

Decisions on outgoing 'Dublin' requests by receiving country (PARTNER), type of decision, type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant

  No

 

Decisions on Incoming 'Dublin' requests based on EURODAC by submitting country (PARTNER), type of decision, type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant

  No

 

Decisions on outgoing 'Dublin' requests based on EURODAC by receiving country (PARTNER), type of decision, type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant

  No

 

Incoming 'Dublin' transfers by submitting country (PARTNER), legal provision, duration of transfer, sex and type of applicant

  No

 

Outgoing 'Dublin' transfers by receiving country (PARTNER), legal provision, duration of transfer, sex and type of applicant

  No

 

Pending incoming 'Dublin' transfers by submitting country (PARTNER), sex and type of applicant

  No

 

Pending outgoing 'Dublin' transfers by receiving country (PARTNER), sex and type of applicant

  No

 
13.3.1.4. Average lag of registering (to the national database/register) the following administrative events
Event Lag in number of days Details
An incoming Dublin request from a partner country 0  
An incoming decision from a partner country accepting the request to take back/charge a person  0   
A decision made by the national authority to accept or to reject a request from a partner country to take charge/back a person  0   
13.3.2. Measurement error

See concept 13.3.4 Processing Error.
13.3.3. Non response error

Not applicable.
13.3.3.1. Unit non-response - rate

Not applicable.
13.3.3.2. Item non-response - rate

Not applicable.
13.3.4. Processing error

Not applicable.
13.3.5. Model assumption error

Not applicable.


14. Timeliness and punctuality Top
14.1. Timeliness

See below concepts 14.1.1 and 14.1.2.
14.1.1. Time lag - first result

- 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 : within three months of the end of the reference year.

Reasons for possible long production of the first/preliminary data and plans to improve the situation: Delay in implementation of the relevant module of the new national register. Once the relevant module of national register is implemented the delay will no longer occure. 
14.1.2. Time lag - final result

- 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 : within three months of the end of the reference year.

Reasons for possible long production of the final data and plans to improve the situation: Delay in implementation of the relevant module of the new national register. Once the relevant module of national register is implemented the delay will no longer occure. 
14.2. Punctuality

Regarding reference year - 2021: Provision of data was delayed due to problems in the respective national administrative systems. Data provision was delayed by 64 days.
14.2.1. Punctuality - delivery and publication

Regarding reference year - 2021: Data provision was delayed by 64 days.


15. Coherence and comparability Top
15.1. Comparability - geographical

See below.
15.1.1. Asymmetry for mirror flow statistics - coefficient

Not applicable.
15.1.2. Assessment of possible sources of lack of comparability between countries

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

 

# Topic Response  Explanatory details and assessment of the magnitude of error (where applicable)
1 Does the country report all persons individually (e.g. in case of families all persons must be reported individually)? Yes  
2 Does the country report each request/decision/transfer concerning the same person during the same year (even if multiple requests/decisions/transfers are made for the same person during the year)? Yes   
3 For the data on “Requests based on Eurodac hit” and “Decisions based on Eurodac hit”, does the country report also children below 14 years old who are not fingerprinted? Yes  
4 In case a request for a person involves more than one partner countries, does the country report all requests it sent/received to/from all the partner countries involved? Yes  
5 Where the request is accepted based on a different legal basis from the one on which the request was sent, does the country report the data based on the article (legal basis) on which the request is accepted? Yes  
6 Does the country report only successful incoming transfers (i.e. only those where the country has effectively received the person on its territory)? Yes  
7 Does the country report only successful outgoing transfers (i.e. those for which the country has undertaken all appropriate measures in order to send a transferee to another Member State)? Yes   
8 Does the country report transfers for cases where the applicant otherwise travelled back to the Member State responsible on its own within the transfer time limits (without the country organizing the actual transfer)? Yes  
9 Does the country report requests sent/received by mistake (i.e. when the actual partner country should have been different than the one intended)? No  The Partner country is notified about mistake
10 Does the country report a person as adult or minor according to the age of the person at the date of the respective administrative event (e.g. the person was minor at the date of the request, but at the date of transfer the person was not a minor anymore)? Yes  
11 Does the country carry out the Dublin/Eurodac check before the formal registration of the asylum application? Yes   
12 For the data of “Article 3.2 first paragraph – Responsible by default: no prior criteria applicable”, does the country report any applicant for which the Dublin criteria do not apply? This means any person who applied for protection in the reporting country, as a first Member State of application, and for whom no Dublin criteria applied for him/her to be taken charge of by another Member State.

No

 
13 Does the country report under the data of “Decisions on incoming requests” positive decisions accepting a request implicitly? Yes  
14 Does the country report under the data of “Decisions on outgoing requests” positive decisions accepting a request implicitly? Yes  
15 Does the country report under the data of “Decisions on incoming requests bases on Eurodac” positive decisions accepting a request implicitly? Yes  
16 Does the country report under the data of “Decisions on outgoing requests bases on Eurodac” positive decisions accepting a request implicitly? Yes   
17 For the data of Transfers, in case of different legal basis between the request and the positive decision to accept the responsibility to examine the application, does the country report the legal ground (LEG_PROV) on which the decision (acceptance of request) was based on? Yes  
18 Does the country report under 'Incoming pending transfers' cases where the partner country did not implement the transfer within the foreseen time limits (Article 29.2)? No  
19 Does the country report under ‘Outgoing pending transfers' cases where the country did not implement the transfer within the foreseen time limits (Article 29.2)? No  
15.2. Comparability - over time

See below.
15.2.1. Length of comparable time series

Comparable since 2008 on common disaggregation.
15.3. Coherence - cross domain

Asylum statistics collected under Article 4 of the Regulation (EC) 862/2007 are based on persons, while Dublin statistics may refer to requests in a few cases.
15.3.1. Coherence - sub annual and annual statistics

Not applicable.
15.3.2. Coherence - National Accounts

Not applicable.
15.4. Coherence - internal

Not applicable.


16. Cost and Burden Top

Not available.


17. Data revision Top
17.1. Data revision - policy

See below.
17.1.1. Description of the national revision policy for Dublin statistics

Not available.
17.1.2. Number of revisions planned on average
Data revision practice National practice  Further details (if necessary)

Average number of planned revisions performed during a year (for latest reference year)

Not applicable

  

Average number of unplanned revisions performed during a year (usually caused by the discovery of a mistake)

  1  
Main reasons for revisions (new source data are becoming available, new methods/concepts, etc) and extent to which the revisions improved the accuracy of the data

Data revision shall be performed after the noncompliance of the statistical information has been recorded or if users notices of noncompliance of this information has been received.

  
Where the request is accepted based on a different legal basis from the one on which the request was sent, Member States have to report their data based on the article (legal basis) on which the request is accepted.

As far it is possible, this applies also to the data on outgoing and incoming requests. In case the requests are submitted/received in a different reference year than the decision was taken, data on requests shall be revised accordingly by both countries.

Does the country revise its data according to the above guidance?

Not applicable

  
17.1.3. Description of the main reasons for revisions

Data revision shall be performed after the noncompliance of the statistical information has been recorded or if notices of noncompliance of this information has been received from users.
17.2. Data revision - practice

See below.
17.2.1. Data revision - average size

Not applicable.


18. Statistical processing Top
18.1. Source data
  • The Register of Foreigners (administrative register)
  • Lithuanian Migration Information System (administrative system)
18.2. Frequency of data collection

Annual
18.3. Data collection

Statistical data are obtained by joining the Register of Foreigners / Lithuanian Migration Information System
18.4. Data validation

Non-automatical data checking 
18.4.1. Validation procedures
Validation activity Performed Periodicity Details (methods and tools)
Check that the population coverage is accurate, as required according to the definitions of the Technical guidelines (Annex) Yes Annually  
Compare the data with data of previous periods Yes Annually   
Check for outliers Yes Annually  
Investigate inconsistencies in the statistics (checking the consistency of "Total" values over each variable) Yes  Annually  
Verify the statistics against expectations and domain intelligence Yes Annually  
Confront the data against other relevant data (e.g. Asylum statistics, of the mirror data from the partner countries)  No  Not applicable  
Check retrospectively (a sample of) the data in the register/database in order to confirm they are accurate  Yes  When necessary  
18.5. Data compilation

Data are collected by Migration Department under the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Lithuania. Information is stored in administrative register. Statistical information is prepared using the ORACLE database management system.
18.5.1. Imputation - rate

Not applicable.
18.6. Adjustment

Not applicable.
18.6.1. Seasonal adjustment

Not applicable.


19. Comment Top


Related metadata Top


Annexes Top
Eurostat Guidelines on Dublin statistics - v. 3.1 - 2021