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
9 January 2025
2.2. Metadata last posted
9 January 2025
2.3. Metadata last update
9 January 2025
3.1. Data description
Data collection on student and researchers (and other categories) is based on Article 38 of Directive (EU) 2016/801 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:
Authorisations for study and research by reason, type of decision, citizenship and length of validity (migr_ressrath).
Authorisations for long-term mobility of researchers by reason, type of decision, citizenship and length of validity (migr_ressrltm).
Notifications for research and study by reason, decision, citizenship and length of validity (migr_ressrntf).
Directive (EU) 2016/801 was transposed at national level on 12 April 2021 by:
the Act Amending the Foreigners Act, which was published in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 57/21 of 12 Arpil 2021 and entered into force on 27 April 2021 and became applicable on 26 May 2021;
the Act Amending the Employment, Self-employment and Work of Foreigners Act, which was published in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 57/21 of 12 April 2021 and entered into force on 27 April 2021 and became applicable on 26 May 2021.
3.2. Classification system
See table 3.2. in annex ‘Quality report tables on student and researchers’.
3.3. Coverage - sector
Migration and asylum – Residence permits statistics, student and researchers (and other categories).
3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions
See table 3.4. in annex ‘Quality report tables on student and researchers’.
3.5. Statistical unit
Number of authorisations and notifications referring to third-country nationals receiving SR authorisation or exercising mobility under the SR Directive.
3.6. Statistical population
See table 3.6. in annex ‘Quality report tables on student and researchers’.
3.7. Reference area
Republic of Slovenia.
3.8. Coverage - Time
See table 3.8. in annex ‘Quality report tables on student and researchers’.
3.9. Base period
Not applicable.
Number of authorisations to reside.
Calendar year.
6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements
The applicable European and national legal acts at national level, relevant for data collection on students and researchers (and other categories) under Article 38 of Directive (EU) 2016/801:
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.
Directive (EU) 2016/801 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2016 on the conditions of entry and residence of third-country nationals for the purposes of research, studies, training, voluntary service, pupil exchange schemes or educational projects and au pairing (recast).
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).
Employment, Self-employment and Work of Foreigners Act (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No 91/21 – official consolidated version and 42/23).
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: Direktorat-za-migracije.
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 students and researchers (and other categories) 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).
11.2. Quality management - assessment
Data on students and researchers (and other categories) based on Article 38 of Directive (EU) 2016/801 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 on student and researchers’.
12.3.1. Data completeness - rate
Not applicable.
13.1. Accuracy - overall
Data collected under Article 38 of Directive (EU) 2016/801 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
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
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 on student and researchers’.
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 on student and researchers’.
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 on student and researchers’.
17.2.1. Data revision - average size
Not applicable.
18.1. Source data
See table 18.1. in annex ‘Quality report tables on student and researchers’.
18.2. Frequency of data collection
Annually.
18.3. Data collection
Data on students and researchers (and other categories) is annually collected from administrative source (Register of Foreigners) .
Since the reference year 2021 the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Slovenia has sent the data which has received 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) supplies 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. Data on students and researchers (and other categories) 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 the consistency between datasets.
Data collection on student and researchers (and other categories) is based on Article 38 of Directive (EU) 2016/801 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:
Authorisations for study and research by reason, type of decision, citizenship and length of validity (migr_ressrath).
Authorisations for long-term mobility of researchers by reason, type of decision, citizenship and length of validity (migr_ressrltm).
Notifications for research and study by reason, decision, citizenship and length of validity (migr_ressrntf).
Directive (EU) 2016/801 was transposed at national level on 12 April 2021 by:
the Act Amending the Foreigners Act, which was published in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 57/21 of 12 Arpil 2021 and entered into force on 27 April 2021 and became applicable on 26 May 2021;
the Act Amending the Employment, Self-employment and Work of Foreigners Act, which was published in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 57/21 of 12 April 2021 and entered into force on 27 April 2021 and became applicable on 26 May 2021.
9 January 2025
See table 3.4. in annex ‘Quality report tables on student and researchers’.
Number of authorisations and notifications referring to third-country nationals receiving SR authorisation or exercising mobility under the SR Directive.
See table 3.6. in annex ‘Quality report tables on student and researchers’.
Republic of Slovenia.
Calendar year.
Data collected under Article 38 of Directive (EU) 2016/801 is collected from reliable administrative source (Register of Foreigners), so the high level of data accuracy is guaranteed.
Number of authorisations to reside.
Not applicable.
See table 18.1. in annex ‘Quality report tables on student and researchers’.
Annual data.
Not applicable.
Fully Compliance. No exceptions involved.
See table 15.2. in annex ‘Quality report tables on student and researchers’.
