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.
Data collection on intra-corporate transfers is based on Article 24 of Directive 2014/66/EU on the conditions of entry and residence of third-country nationals in the framework of an intra-corporate transfer.
The following datasets are collected under this framework:
Intra-corporate transferee permits issued, renewed and withdrawn by type of permit, length of validity and citizenship (migr_resict1_1);
Intra-corporate transferee permits issued by type of permit, economic sector and citizenship (migr_resict1_2);
Intra-corporate transferee permits issued by type of permit, length of validity, transferee position and citizenship (migr_resict1_3);
Intra-corporate notifications received by length of validity and citizenship (migr_resict2_1);
Intra-corporate notifications received by economic sector and citizenship (migr_resict2_2);
Permits for long-term mobility issued and notifications received by citizenship and first Member State of residence (migr_resict3).
Directive 2014/66/EU was transposed at national level on November 28, 2016.
3.2. Classification system
See table 3.2. in annex ‘Quality report tables on intra-corporate transfers’.
3.3. Coverage - sector
Migration and asylum – Residence permits statistics, intra-corporate transfers
3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions
See table 3.4. in annex ‘Quality report tables on intra-corporate transfers’.
3.5. Statistical unit
Number of persons.
3.6. Statistical population
See table 3.6. in annex ‘Quality report tables on intra-corporate transfers’.
3.7. Reference area
The Netherlands.
3.8. Coverage - Time
See table 3.8. in annex ‘Quality report tables on intra-corporate transfers’.
3.9. Base period
Not applicable.
Number of authorisations for intra-corporate transfers.
Calendar year.
6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements
Until 2021 intra-corporate transfer statistics are based on Directive 2014/66/EU in accordance with Regulation (EC) 862/2007. Data delivery for reference year 2021 onwards is based on Directive 2014/66/EU in accordance with Regulation (EC) 862/2007 as amended by Regulation (EU) 2020/851.
The Immigration and Naturalization Service (a Service of the Ministry of Asylum and Migration) is responsible in the Netherlands for the issuance of intra-corporate transfer permits and the registration of the administrative data.
The Employee Insurance Agency (a Service of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment) is responsible in the Netherlands for the registration of intra-corporate notifications.
The "Wet op het Centraal bureau voor de statistiek, van 2 maart 2022" (the Dutch Law on Statistics Netherlands, 02 March 2022) states in article 4 that CBS is responsible for the production of the EU statistics.
This comprises all (mandatory and voluntary) statistics mentioned in the several EU Regulations and Directives.
Formal agreements exist between the data suppliers (IND & UWV) and CBS regarding the provision of data from the data suppliers to CBS for the purpose of EU and other statistics, which also features the intra-corporate transfers permits data.
6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing
Data sharing is conform the agreements between IND and CBS regarding the provision of data from IND to CBS for the purpose of (EU and other) statistics, conform the agreements between UWV and CBS and conform the 'CBS law' and other relevant legal acts and agreements.
IND receives and registers all applications for residence permits and the outcome of the decisions on the applications, including intra-corporate transferees. All relevant data are registered at IND in the database Indigo. IND has moreover the Metis datawarehouse, which contains all the necessary data concerning the flow of permits, the source for the data in METIS is Indigo. Based on METIS, IND compiles the residence permits tables ICT11 - ICT 13. IND sends all compiled tables to CBS. IND does not register economic sector. CBS does have this data in its 'ABR' (General Company Registration), and adds the economic sector to table ICT 12 based on this data and Chamber of Commerce company codes before transmitting the tables to EuroStat. UWV sends the data regarding intra-corporate transfer notifications to CBS, where it is then processed into aggregated tables ICT 21 and ICT 22.
CBS has set up a secure and automated data processing system to receive the data from the data supplier, to process the data, and send the statistics via Edamis to Eurostat. This system includes the "database EU Asylum and managed Migration" and several secure and automated procedures for receiving, processing and sending the data. All procedures are in accordance with the CBS standards in the field of data collection and processing.
7.1. Confidentiality - policy
The General Data Protection Regulation applies in The Netherlands, and therefore to CBS and data suppliers IND & UWV.
CBS defines a confidential cell as a cell where the number is lower than 7. Usually this cell is suppressed, however, depending on the statistic, also controlled rounding can be used, for example to the nearest fivefold or tenfold. CBS checks in general for residual disclosure, with methods depending on the statistic. As Eurostat itself has confidentiality rules for publications, and because of the secure process of sending data via Edamis to Eurostat, there is no rounding in the supplied tables.
8.1. Release calendar
CBS does not publish statistics related to intra-corporate transfers. Data is only collected for Eurostat purposes.
8.2. Release calendar access
Not applicable.
8.3. Release policy - user access
Not applicable.
Yearly.
10.1. Dissemination format - News release
CBS does not publish statistics related to intra-corporate transferees. Data is only collected for Eurostat purposes.
10.2. Dissemination format - Publications
CBS does not publish statistics related to intra-corporate transferees. Data is only collected for Eurostat purposes.
10.3. Dissemination format - online database
The complete online database of CBS, containing all regular statistics, can be found here:
CBS does not receive intra-corporate transferee permit microdata, IND sends the aggregated tables to CBS.
UWV transmits microdata regarding intra-corporate transfer notifications to CBS, where it is processed into aggregated tables.
10.5. Dissemination format - other
Apart from sending the tables to Eurostat, data is not disseminated elsewhere.
10.5.1. Metadata - consultations
Not applicable.
10.6. Documentation on methodology
Both data suppliers (IND & UWV) and CBS work in accordance with the relevant Eurostat guidelines.
10.6.1. Metadata completeness - rate
Not applicable.
10.7. Quality management - documentation
Not applicable.
11.1. Quality assurance
CBS has implemented a.o. the European Statistics Code of Practice (CoP), the ESS Quality Assurance Framework (QAF), ISO-9001, and works accordingly the CBS-law, and is regularly audited by external auditors.
IND has a division that is responsible for data quality: they measure on a very regular basis the quality of the data content and of the data-entry in INDIGO (the registration system for a.o. residence permit data), this is performed as well for the residence permit data. On a daily basis a number of cases is randomly selected and checked. When errors are found, they are reported to the staff responsible for the data entry, and they will correct the mistakes immediately. Also quarterly reports are send to the managing board. Moreover, before sets of data are selected to be extracted from INDIGO into METIS (the data warehouse from which a.o. the tables for Eurostat are extracted), the process of data extraction is checked extensively.
The checks performed are a.o.: checking the data integrity over each processing step, totals consistency, changes over time, using intervals of values for outliers/errors detection, whether double counting cases are excluded, and checking the consistency between statistics by "reason" and statistics by "age" and "sex" categories.
11.2. Quality management - assessment
The quality assurance processes as described in 11.1. lead to qualitatively good data. When in the described registrations and processes errors are found, they are immediately corrected, thereby ensuring qualitatively good data sets. On the ensuing data sets, in this case the residence permit tables, no other quality checks are performed.
12.1. Relevance - User Needs
The statistics collected under Regulation (EC) 862/2007 and Regulation (EU) 851/2020 are used by a wide range of users at national, European and International level to cover various user needs.
Users of residence permit statistics:
The statistics collected under the Regulation (EC) 862/2007 and Regulation (EU) 851/2020 are widely used in official publications and by a wide range of users at national, European and International level. The 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 National level, the Ministry of Justice and Security and CBS are main users of the residence permit statistics.
At European level, the main users of the 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 studies and reports that address specific issues of current policy importance.
Unmet user needs (on statistics) and reasons why these needs cannot be satisfied (at national and international level):
There are no unmet needs.
12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction
No user satisfaction surveys are conducted.
12.3. Completeness
See table 12.3. in annex ‘Quality report tables on intra-corporate transfers’.
12.3.1. Data completeness - rate
Not applicable.
13.1. Accuracy - overall
The accuracy of all intra-corporate transfer permit tables is high, which means about 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 intra-corporate transfer statistics. The target population, i.e the third country nationals applying for a residence permit, is very accurately represented by the applications for intra-corporate transfer permits in the registrations of IND, and validated compilations of these data are made to fill the mandatory tables. The bias is zero.
13.2. Sampling error
Not applicable.
13.2.1. Sampling error - indicators
Not applicable.
13.3. Non-sampling error
There are no coverage errors and no nonresponse errors. Processing errors sometimes occur in extracting the table from METIS/INDIGO, sometimes in the method of extracting, but usually in the format of the table. There may be small measurement errors: one person can be included more than once in the reference dataset, however this is usually less than 1 % of the cases.
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: all individual data records concerning intra-corporate transfer permits are registered within a few days in INDIGO (the registration system of IND). Based on these data all mandatory tables are yearly extracted, checked and validated.
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
Processing errors sometimes occur in extracting the table from METIS/INDIGO, sometimes in the method of extracting, but mostly in the format of the table. CBS corrects the format errors, and processing errors due to method errors are corrected by IND.
13.3.5. Model assumption error
Not applicable.
14.1. Timeliness
Data supply to Eurostat is in accordance with the Regulation and the Technical Guidelines, also concerning the timeframe of sending data to Eurostat.
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 : 120 days.
Reasons for possible long production of the first/preliminary data and plans to improve the situation : The tables are produced and sent to Eurostat within the mandatory deadlines.
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 on intra-corporate transfers’.
14.2.1. Punctuality - delivery and publication
Not applicable.
15.1. Comparability - geographical
The statistics are comparable between all regions of the Netherlands, because there is only one national system of accumulating and processing the data.
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 on intra-corporate transfers’.
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
Statistics for ICT 11 - 13 are extracted from a data warehouse (METIS) which is based on INDIGO, the registration system of IND in which all administrative individual data records concerning residence permits are registered. All residence permit statistics are coherent with the microdataset in INDIGO and METIS. Checks are performed to ensure coherence.
Not available.
17.1. Data revision - policy
The Netherlands does not have a data revision policy for these statistics: the data produced are final data.
17.2. Data revision - practice
See table 17.2. in annex ‘Quality report tables on intra-corporate transfers’.
17.2.1. Data revision - average size
Not applicable.
18.1. Source data
See table 18.1. in annex ‘Quality report tables on intra-corporate transfers’.
18.2. Frequency of data collection
All source data are collected and processed continuously by IND and UWV. In order to submit the data to Eurostat, compilations of the data are made on an annual base.
18.3. Data collection
The source for data regarding the intra-corporate transfer permits is METIS, the IND data warehouse, based on INDIGO, the IND registration system. The source for data regarding intra-corporate transfer notifications is UWV.
18.4. Data validation
During the process of monitoring to ensure the quality of the resulting tables, a.o. the next checks are performed: an automatic check on integrity of the data within the data warehouse; checking that the population coverage is accurate according to the definitions of the Technical guidelines; checking retrospectively a sample of the data in the register in order to confirm that they are accurate; comparing yearly the data with data of previous periods; checking for outliers.
18.5. Data compilation
METIS (the IND data warehouse), which is based on INDIGO (the registration system at IND of a.o. the administrative data records of residence permits), is the sole source for the tables. INDIGO is an integral microdata registration of all permits, therefore there is no imputation, no adjustment to non-response and no weighting of records. Based on METIS/INDIGO, for each table the required records are extracted, aggregated and counted, and tabulated into the table, according to the guidelines.
Data collection on intra-corporate transfers is based on Article 24 of Directive 2014/66/EU on the conditions of entry and residence of third-country nationals in the framework of an intra-corporate transfer.
The following datasets are collected under this framework:
Intra-corporate transferee permits issued, renewed and withdrawn by type of permit, length of validity and citizenship (migr_resict1_1);
Intra-corporate transferee permits issued by type of permit, economic sector and citizenship (migr_resict1_2);
Intra-corporate transferee permits issued by type of permit, length of validity, transferee position and citizenship (migr_resict1_3);
Intra-corporate notifications received by length of validity and citizenship (migr_resict2_1);
Intra-corporate notifications received by economic sector and citizenship (migr_resict2_2);
Permits for long-term mobility issued and notifications received by citizenship and first Member State of residence (migr_resict3).
Directive 2014/66/EU was transposed at national level on November 28, 2016.
20 November 2024
See table 3.4. in annex ‘Quality report tables on intra-corporate transfers’.
Number of persons.
See table 3.6. in annex ‘Quality report tables on intra-corporate transfers’.
The Netherlands.
Calendar year.
The accuracy of all intra-corporate transfer permit tables is high, which means about 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 intra-corporate transfer statistics. The target population, i.e the third country nationals applying for a residence permit, is very accurately represented by the applications for intra-corporate transfer permits in the registrations of IND, and validated compilations of these data are made to fill the mandatory tables. The bias is zero.
Number of authorisations for intra-corporate transfers.
METIS (the IND data warehouse), which is based on INDIGO (the registration system at IND of a.o. the administrative data records of residence permits), is the sole source for the tables. INDIGO is an integral microdata registration of all permits, therefore there is no imputation, no adjustment to non-response and no weighting of records. Based on METIS/INDIGO, for each table the required records are extracted, aggregated and counted, and tabulated into the table, according to the guidelines.
See table 18.1. in annex ‘Quality report tables on intra-corporate transfers’.
Yearly.
Data supply to Eurostat is in accordance with the Regulation and the Technical Guidelines, also concerning the timeframe of sending data to Eurostat.
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 : 120 days.
Reasons for possible long production of the first/preliminary data and plans to improve the situation : The tables are produced and sent to Eurostat within the mandatory deadlines.
The statistics are comparable between all regions of the Netherlands, because there is only one national system of accumulating and processing the data.
See table 15.2. in annex ‘Quality report tables on intra-corporate transfers’.
