Reference metadata describe statistical concepts and methodologies used for the collection and generation of data. They provide information on data quality and, since they are strongly content-oriented, assist users in interpreting the data. Reference metadata, unlike structural metadata, can be decoupled from the data.
Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum, I.P.
1.2. Contact organisation unit
DPEE - Planning, Studies and Statistics Department
1.3. Contact name
Confidential because of GDPR
1.4. Contact person function
Confidential because of GDPR
1.5. Contact mail address
AIMA, I.P
Avenida António Augusto Aguiar, 20
1069-119 Lisboa
1.6. Contact email address
Confidential because of GDPR
1.7. Contact phone number
Confidential because of GDPR
1.8. Contact fax number
Confidential because of GDPR
2.1. Metadata last certified
22 August 2024
2.2. Metadata last posted
22 August 2024
2.3. Metadata last update
22 August 2024
3.1. Data description
Data collection on EU Blue Cards statistics based on EU Directive on the conditions of entry and residence of third-country nationals for the purpose of highly qualified employment.
The new legal requirements regarding supplementary statistics are applicable starting with 2024 reference period.
The following datasets are collected in 2023 under this framework:
EU Blue Cards by type of decision, occupation and citizenship (migr_resbc1).
Admitted family members of EU Blue Cards holders by type of decision and citizenship (migr_resbc2).
EU Blue Cards holders and family members by Member State of previous residence (migr_resbc3).
Directive 2009/50/EC was transposed at national level, but the date is unavailable for the moment.
Directive (EU) 2021/1883 was transposed at national level, but the date is unavailable for the moment.
3.2. Classification system
See table 3.2. in annex ‘Quality report tables EU Blue Cards’.
3.3. Coverage - sector
Migration and asylum – Residence permits statistics, EU Blue Cards.
3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions
See table 3.4. in annex ‘Quality report tables EU Blue Cards’.
3.5. Statistical unit
Number of persons
3.6. Statistical population
See table 3.6. in annex ‘Quality report tables EU Blue Cards’.
3.7. Reference area
Portugal.
3.8. Coverage - Time
See table 3.8. in annex ‘Quality report tables EU Blue Cards’.
3.9. Base period
Not applicable.
Number of persons.
Calendar year.
6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements
The new Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum in Portugal, also known as AIMA,I.P., came into action on October, the 29th, 2023.
This new Agency faced the challenge of integrating the functions previously carried out by SEF, maintaining the regionalised service structure and introducing new digital strategies to facilitate and improve the processes of Residence.
The launch of AIMA embodies the separation of political and administrative functions, allowing the initiation of a series of new measures, functionalities and policies that will expand and improve the quality of access to services, reinforcing the security of processes and procedures and the trust and credibility of users and society in general.
When it was, the Aliens Service checked the entries in the system, eliminated duplicate data and incorrectly entered data.
Now, the people in charge of the data recording units supervise and control the work and record the data and its accuracy when it is recorded.
6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing
With the reallocation of SEF's attributions and responsibilities to Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum, I.P. (AIMA) and the restructuring of the Portuguese system for managing border control, international protection and the documentation of foreign citizens, the following steps were taken, with close cooperation is ensured between all the institutions:
- Border control; coordination and coordination of management, information and data bases and information systems relating to the movement of people and border control:
National Republican Guard (GNR)
Public Security Police (PSP);
Internal Security System - Border and Foreigners Coordination Unit (SSI/UCFE);
- Supervision and control of the stay of foreign citizens:
Public Security Police (PSP);
National Republican Guard (GNR);
- Responsibility for coordinating the work of the security forces and services among themselves and between them and the Institute of Registries and Notaries, I. P., and the AIMA:
SSI/UCFE
In practice, AIMA is responsible for assessment and decision of return cases.
GNR and PSP are responsible for the execution of return decisions.
7.1. Confidentiality - policy
Not applicable.
7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment
The Statistics Department, in accordance with the GDPR, and the department responsible for data protection at AIMA, regulate the necessary confidentiality of the data extracted.
8.1. Release calendar
RESPER statistics are only published and disseminated in accordance with current legislation, which means that data is submitted annually.
The data is reliable and verified by the Statistics Director, to be extracted and analyzed on the new platform being designed at AIMA.
12.1. Relevance - User Needs
Not applicable.
12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction
Not applicable.
12.3. Completeness
See table 12.3. in annex ‘Quality report tables EU Blue Cards’.
12.3.1. Data completeness - rate
Not applicable.
13.1. Accuracy - overall
The accuracy of all the tables on residence permits is quite high, which means almost 100% accuracy.
The statistics reported almost accurately measure the target population, as provided for in Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 (as amended by Regulation (EU) 2020/851) and as defined in the Operational Guidelines for residence permit statistics.
The target population, i.e. third-country nationals applying for a residence permit, is represented very accurately by the residence permit applications in the IND registers, and validated compilations of this data are made to fill in the mandatory tables.
The deviation is usually almost zero.
13.2. Sampling error
Not applicable.
13.2.1. Sampling error - indicators
Not applicable.
13.3. Non-sampling error
Not applicable
13.3.1. Coverage error
Not applicable.
13.3.1.1. Over-coverage - rate
Not applicable.
13.3.1.2. Common units - proportion
Not applicable.
13.3.2. Measurement error
Not applicable.
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.
14.1. Timeliness
Given the transfer of responsibilities from SEF to AIMA, I.P., as well as the reduction in the number of staff, it can be said that this has led to a certain delay in the submission of various pieces of some work.
But we have clearly made an extra effort and managed to submit everything almost on time, always with the support of our partners.
14.1.1. Time lag - first result
Not applicable.
14.1.2. Time lag - final result
Not applicable.
14.2. Punctuality
See table 14.2. in annex ‘Quality report tables EU Blue Cards’.
14.2.1. Punctuality - delivery and publication
Not applicable.
15.1. Comparability - geographical
Statistics are comparable between geographical areas in PT.
15.1.1. Asymmetry for mirror flow statistics - coefficient
Not applicable.
15.2. Comparability - over time
See table 15.2. in annex ‘Quality report tables EU Blue Cards’.
15.2.1. Length of comparable time series
Not applicable.
15.3. Coherence - cross domain
There are no coherence issues with other data sets.
15.3.1. Coherence - sub annual and annual statistics
The statistics are comparable over all years.
There are no sub annual statistics, only annual statistics.
15.3.2. Coherence - National Accounts
Not applicable.
15.4. Coherence - internal
All the statistics on residence permits are extracted from a database/SEF where we are now creating a new database/AIMA, which contains all the individual administrative data on residence permits, and all the statistics on residence permits are consistent with the set of data extracted.
Not applicable.
17.1. Data revision - policy
Not applicable.
17.2. Data revision - practice
See table 17.2. in annex ‘Quality report tables EU Blue Cards’.
17.2.1. Data revision - average size
Not applicable.
18.1. Source data
See table 18.1. in annex ‘Quality report tables EU Blue Cards’.
18.2. Frequency of data collection
AIMA submitted annually the REPER data.
The table below shows the data submitted to EUROSTAT and when:
Data tables - EUROSTAT
RESPER - ANNUAL
Submit - June
RP1_RP1 AS
RP2_RP2 AS
RP3_RP3 AS
RP4_RP4 AS
RP5_RP5 AS
RP6_RP6 AS
RP7_RP7 AS
BC1_BC2_BC3
SP (25/6)
SW1_SW2
SW11_SW12_SW13
ICT3
ICT11_12_13
ICT21_22
LTR_LTR AS
SR1_2_3
This data is collected and submitted once a year, i.e. annually
18.3. Data collection
Each data table is submitted according to the date indicated by EUROSTAT.
RESPER data is taken from the PT internal platform and after verification and validation, they are submitted to Eurostat via EDAMIS platform.
(Ever since the clear separation of duties between the police and the administration that came with the creation of AIMA, there have been clear tasks within the institution.
The statistics department is clearly responsible for working on, analyzing and submitting statistical data for the whole of AIMA.)
18.4. Data validation
A set of standardised validation checks are applied by Eurostat before publishing the data.
Data providers may transmit the data only in csv (comma separated value) templates (administered by Eurostat to Member States).
The new validation service infrastructure is built around two components performing validation operations: one for structural validation (called STRUVAL) and one for content validation (called CONVAL).
The validation rules below are checked to ensure the internal consistency of the data:
Variable codes and values of data are from a predefined set of accepted code-lists and format;
Statistics are confronted against other relevant data (e.g. a 'total' value of a given disaggregation (dimension) should equal the sum of the disaggregated data);
Investigating in consistencies in the statistics;
Analysis of size and sign of revision;
Verifying the statistics against expectations and domain intelligence;
Outlier detection.
18.5. Data compilation
Based on the national detailed figures transmitted by the national data providers, Eurostat derives European aggregates by applying common calculation method:
The geographical aggregation is done by arithmetical sum, when there are no missing values among the components of the respective geographical aggregate.
Otherwise, they are not calculated.
18.5.1. Imputation - rate
Not applicable.
18.6. Adjustment
Not applicable.
18.6.1. Seasonal adjustment
No statistical technique applied.
AIMA, I.P., is still updating its entire IT park and platforms due to the change in AIMA's structure.
But it's important to say that with the support we've had from our partners, everything has clearly worked out for the best.
Data collection on EU Blue Cards statistics based on EU Directive on the conditions of entry and residence of third-country nationals for the purpose of highly qualified employment.
The new legal requirements regarding supplementary statistics are applicable starting with 2024 reference period.
The following datasets are collected in 2023 under this framework:
EU Blue Cards by type of decision, occupation and citizenship (migr_resbc1).
Admitted family members of EU Blue Cards holders by type of decision and citizenship (migr_resbc2).
EU Blue Cards holders and family members by Member State of previous residence (migr_resbc3).
Directive 2009/50/EC was transposed at national level, but the date is unavailable for the moment.
Directive (EU) 2021/1883 was transposed at national level, but the date is unavailable for the moment.
22 August 2024
See table 3.4. in annex ‘Quality report tables EU Blue Cards’.
Number of persons
See table 3.6. in annex ‘Quality report tables EU Blue Cards’.
Portugal.
Calendar year.
The accuracy of all the tables on residence permits is quite high, which means almost 100% accuracy.
The statistics reported almost accurately measure the target population, as provided for in Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 (as amended by Regulation (EU) 2020/851) and as defined in the Operational Guidelines for residence permit statistics.
The target population, i.e. third-country nationals applying for a residence permit, is represented very accurately by the residence permit applications in the IND registers, and validated compilations of this data are made to fill in the mandatory tables.
The deviation is usually almost zero.
Number of persons.
Based on the national detailed figures transmitted by the national data providers, Eurostat derives European aggregates by applying common calculation method:
The geographical aggregation is done by arithmetical sum, when there are no missing values among the components of the respective geographical aggregate.
Otherwise, they are not calculated.
See table 18.1. in annex ‘Quality report tables EU Blue Cards’.
Annually.
Given the transfer of responsibilities from SEF to AIMA, I.P., as well as the reduction in the number of staff, it can be said that this has led to a certain delay in the submission of various pieces of some work.
But we have clearly made an extra effort and managed to submit everything almost on time, always with the support of our partners.
Statistics are comparable between geographical areas in PT.
See table 15.2. in annex ‘Quality report tables EU Blue Cards’.
