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.
Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, Demography and social statistics Division, Demography Statistics and Level of Living Section
1.3. Contact name
Confidential because of GDPR
1.4. Contact person function
Confidential because of GDPR
1.5. Contact mail address
Litostrojska cesta 54
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
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
3 December 2024
2.2. Metadata last posted
3 December 2024
2.3. Metadata last update
3 December 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 EU Blue Cards statistics is produced under the Directive 2009/50/EC. From 19. 11. 2023 this directive is replaced by Directive (EU) 2021/1883. 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 on 27. 6. 2011 by the Foreigners Act, which was published in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 50/2011 of 27. 6. 2011 and entered into force on 27. 7. 2011 and became applicable on 27. 10. 2011.
Directive (EU) 2021/1883 has not yet been transposed into national law.
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
The statistics collected under Article 20 of the of the Council Directive 2009/50/EC refer to the number of persons.
3.6. Statistical population
See table 3.6. in annex ‘Quality report tables EU Blue Cards’.
3.7. Reference area
Republic of Slovenia.
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 applicable European and national legal acts at national level, relevant for EU Blue Cards statistics:
Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 July 2007 on Community statistics on migration and international protection and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 311/76 on the compilation of statistics on foreign workers;
Council Directive 2009/50/EC of 25 May 2009 on the conditions of entry and residence of third-country nationals for the purposes of highly qualified employment;
Directive (EU) 2021/1883 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 October 2021 on the conditions of entry and residence of third-country nationals for the purpose of highly qualified employment, and repealing Council Directive 2009/50/EC;
Foreigners Act (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No 91/21 – official consolidated version, 95/21 – corr., 105/22 – ZZNŠPP, 48/23, 115/23, 62/24 – ZUOPUE and 96/24 - decision of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia).
6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing
Not applicable.
7.1. Confidentiality - policy
Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics (recital 24 and Article 20(4)) of 11 March 2009 (OJ L 87, p. 164), stipulates the need to establish common principles and guidelines ensuring the confidentiality of data used for the production of European statistics and the access to those confidential data with due account for technical developments and the requirements of users in a democratic society.
7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment
Not applicable.
8.1. Release calendar
Not applicable.
8.2. Release calendar access
Not applicable.
8.3. Release policy - user access
Not applicable.
Annual data.
10.1. Dissemination format - News release
Not applicable.
10.2. Dissemination format - Publications
Data on residence permits is published in the annual report of the Migration directorate, available on the website.
10.3. Dissemination format - online database
Not applicable.
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
Not applicable.
10.6.1. Metadata completeness - rate
Not applicable.
10.7. Quality management - documentation
Not applicable.
11.1. Quality assurance
Statistics on EU Blue Cards are based entirely on administrative source (Register of Foreigners). The Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Slovenia, which is responsible for production of data reported, ensures completeness and coherence of data (the data is prepared in compliance with the Council Regulation (EC) 862/2007 as amended by the Regulation 2020/851 and technical guidelines and instructions provided by Eurostat).
Before sending the data to Eurostat, consistent validation checks are performed (checks of total consistency, checks of magnitude of changes over time, checking the data integrity over each processing step, checking the links between different datasets (e.g. first permit vs. stock of permits).
11.2. Quality management - assessment
Data on EU Blue Cards is of good quality.
12.1. Relevance - User Needs
The statistics collected under the Regulation 862/2007 are widely used in official publications and by a wide range of users at national, European and International level. The Residence permits statistics produced are regularly used by national administrations, academic researchers and civil society groups working on a wide range of topics including the integration of immigrants, the development and monitoring of national asylum and immigration procedures, and the projection of the future population and labour force.
At European level, the main users of Residence permits statistics are Eurostat and DG Migration and Home Affairs. These statistics are used in several publications of the Commission, as well as in the preparation of regular reports, policy proposals and analysis. The statistics also provide an input to the European Migration Network (EMN) studies and reports that address specific issues of current policy importance.
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
Data collected under Article 20 of the Council Directive 2009/50/EC is collected from reliable administrative source (Register of Foreigners), so the high level of data accuracy is guaranteed.
13.2. Sampling error
Not applicable.
13.2.1. Sampling error - indicators
Not applicable.
13.3. Non-sampling error
There are no errors.
13.3.1. Coverage error
There is no difference between the frame population and the target population. There is no under-coverage or over-coverage.
13.3.1.1. Over-coverage - rate
Not applicable.
13.3.1.2. Common units - proportion
Not applicable.
13.3.2. Measurement error
There are no measurement errors.
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
There are no processing errors.
13.3.5. Model assumption error
Not applicable.
14.1. Timeliness
Not applicable.
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
Fully Compliance. No exceptions involved.
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
The data is coherent across the domain. There are no coherence issues with other data sets.
15.3.1. Coherence - sub annual and annual statistics
There are no coherence issues.
15.3.2. Coherence - National Accounts
Not applicable.
15.4. Coherence - internal
Internal coherence (e.g. between years, a coherent classification of issued permits) is ensured through the application of the resident permits methodology and through the various validations performed on the data before send it to Eurostat. No issues identified.
Costs cannot be assessed.
17.1. Data revision - policy
In case of substantial errors, revised data is submitted.
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
Annually.
18.3. Data collection
EU Blue Cards data is annually collected from administrative source (Register of Foreigners), having as a statistical unit the number of persons (third-country nationals who received the EU Blue Card permit).
EU Blue Cards are in the Register of Foreigners recorded under the reason/purpose of residence in the Republic of Slovenia: EU Blue Card.
Since the reference year 2017 the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Slovenia sends the data which receives from the central record of residence permits and the termination of residence (Register of Foreigners) to the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia.
Data provider (Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia) supply data to Eurostat in CSV format via the Single Entry Point (SEP) with eDamis.
18.4. Data validation
Before providing the data to Eurostat, consistent validation checks are performed. EU Blue Cards data are validated through all processing steps. For example: checks of totals consistency; checks of magnitude of changes over time; using visual validation (visual verification of the tables or the graph resulted); checking the data integrity over each processing step; checking if the double counting cases are excluded; checking the consistency between datasets (between EU Blue Cards from first permits (RP3) and EU Blue Cards data collection (BC1-BC3); checking the consistency between statistics by "reason" and statistics by "age" and "sex" categories.
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 EU Blue Cards statistics is produced under the Directive 2009/50/EC. From 19. 11. 2023 this directive is replaced by Directive (EU) 2021/1883. 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 on 27. 6. 2011 by the Foreigners Act, which was published in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 50/2011 of 27. 6. 2011 and entered into force on 27. 7. 2011 and became applicable on 27. 10. 2011.
Directive (EU) 2021/1883 has not yet been transposed into national law.
3 December 2024
See table 3.4. in annex ‘Quality report tables EU Blue Cards’.
The statistics collected under Article 20 of the of the Council Directive 2009/50/EC refer to the number of persons.
See table 3.6. in annex ‘Quality report tables EU Blue Cards’.
Republic of Slovenia.
Calendar year.
Data collected under Article 20 of the Council Directive 2009/50/EC is collected from reliable administrative source (Register of Foreigners), so the high level of data accuracy is guaranteed.
Number of persons.
Not applicable.
See table 18.1. in annex ‘Quality report tables EU Blue Cards’.
Annual data.
Not applicable.
Fully Compliance. No exceptions involved.
See table 15.2. in annex ‘Quality report tables EU Blue Cards’.
