1.1. Contact organisation
Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
1.2. Contact organisation unit
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
16 September 2025
2.2. Metadata last posted
16 September 2025
2.3. Metadata last update
16 September 2025
3.1. Data description
Data collection on the residence permits (RESPER) statistics contains statistical information based on the principles stated in the Union legislation on migration Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 as amended by the Regulation (EU) 2020/851 and the Commission Regulation (EU) No 216/2010 implementing the categories of reasons for residence permits.
The main RESPER data collection based on Article 6 of the Migration Statistics Regulation
- First residence permits,
- Residence permits issued on the occasion of changing the immigration status or reason to stay,
- Residence permits valid at the end of the year,
- Long-term residence permits valid at the end of the year,
- Long-term permits issued during the year.
Statistics collected on voluntary basis
- Residence permits issued for family reunification with beneficiaries of protection status.
3.2. Classification system
See table 3.2. in annex ‘Quality report tables RESPER’.
3.3. Coverage - sector
Migration and asylum – Residence permits statistics.
3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions
See table 3.4. in annex ‘Quality report tables RESPER’.
3.5. Statistical unit
Number of persons.
3.6. Statistical population
See table 3.6. in annex ‘Quality report tables RESPER’.
3.7. Reference area
Republic of Slovenia.
3.8. Coverage - Time
See table 3.8. in annex ‘Quality report tables RESPER’.
3.9. Base period
Not applicable.
Number of persons.
Calendar year.
6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements
The applicable European legal acts, relevant for RESPER 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;
- Commission Regulation (EU) No 216/2010 of 15 March 2010 implementing Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council on Community statistics on migration and international protection, as regards the definitions of categories of the reasons for the residence permits;
- Agreement between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and the Swiss Confederation, of the other, on the free movement of persons
- Family reunification directive on the right to family reunification
- Long-term permit directive concerning the status of third-country nationals who are long-term residents
The applicable legal acts at national level, relevant for RESPER statistics:
- Foreigners Act (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No 46/25 – official consolidated version);
- International Protection Act (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No 16/17 – official consolidated text, 54/21 and 42/23 – ZZSDT-D);
- Act Regulating the Legal Status of Citizens of Former Yugoslavia living in the Republic of Slovenia - ZUSDDD (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 76/10 - official consolidated version);
- Temporary Protection Act (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 20/97, 94/00 – Dec. of the CC, 67/02, 2/04 – ZPNNVSM and 65/05 - ZZZRO).
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. Data on RESPER is disseminated annually by Eurostat and Migration directorate.
10.1. Dissemination format - News release
Not applicable.
10.2. Dissemination format - Publications
There are differences between the data published at national level and the data provided to Eurostat due to different methodologies and/or definitions (e.g.: one person may be at national level counted several time during the reference period; the national statistics refers to the number of permits being issued in each calendar year or being valid at the end of calendar year and not to the number of persons being issued such permits; concepts, definitions and classifications of Residence permits statistics, provided by Eurostat, are not used at the national level. At national level generally statistics by national definitions are used.
10.3. Dissemination format - online database
Data are published on the Eurostat website (database - Managed migration statistics) in the folder Residence permits (migr_res).
Data on residence permits is published in the annual report of the Migration directorate, available on the website.
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
Eurostat Technical Guidelines describing the procedures and the quality requirements for the statistics collected - Technical Guidelines RESPER TG 2023 V1.0
10.6.1. Metadata completeness - rate
Not applicable.
10.7. Quality management - documentation
Not applicable.
11.1. Quality assurance
Data collection on the residence permits (RESPER) statistics are based on administrative source (Register of Foreigners, Asylum Register, the record of long-stay visas). The Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Slovenia, which is responsible for production of data reported (with the exception of data on long-stay visas for which the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia is responsible), ensures completeness and coherence of data. The data, for which the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Slovenia is responsible, 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)).
Data reported in the RP1 and RP2 tables includes also data on issued long-stay visas. This data is prepared by the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia.
11.2. Quality management - assessment
RESPER statistics based on Article 6 of the Migration Statistics Regulation 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 RESPER’.
12.3.1. Data completeness - rate
Not applicable.
13.1. Accuracy - overall
Data collected under Article 6 of the Migration Statistics Regulation is collected from reliable administrative source (Register of Foreigners, Asylum Register, the record of long-stay visas), 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
The Republic of Slovenia is trying to supply RESPER data to Eurostat no later than 6 months after the end of the reference period.
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 RESPER’.
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 RESPER’.
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 RESPER’.
17.2.1. Data revision - average size
Not applicable.
18.1. Source data
See table 18.1. in annex ‘Quality report tables RESPER’.
18.2. Frequency of data collection
Annually.
18.3. Data collection
Data collected under Article 6 of the Migration Statistics Regulation is annually collected from administrative source (Register of Foreigners and Asylum Register managed by the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Slovenia and the record of long-stay visas, managed by the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia).
Since the reference year 2017 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) and from the records of persons who have been granted international protection (Asylum Register) to the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia.
Since reference year 2017, the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia has also received data on issued long-stay visas from the record of long-stay visas, which is managed by the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia. The data from the record of long-stay visas are from the reference year 2008 onwards included in RP1 and RP2 tables.
Since the reference year 2017 the Residence permits statistics are transmitted to Eurostat by Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia.
18.4. Data validation
Before providing the data to Eurostat, consistent validation checks are performed. Data on residence permits based on Article 6 of the Migration Statistics Regulation 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 flow and stock data (RP1-RP4 vs RP6); checking the consistency between statistics by "reason" and statistics by "age" and "sex" categories.
18.5. Data compilation
Not applicable.
18.5.1. Imputation - rate
Not applicable.
18.6. Adjustment
Not applicable.
18.6.1. Seasonal adjustment
No statistical technique applied.
No further comments.
Data collection on the residence permits (RESPER) statistics contains statistical information based on the principles stated in the Union legislation on migration Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 as amended by the Regulation (EU) 2020/851 and the Commission Regulation (EU) No 216/2010 implementing the categories of reasons for residence permits.
The main RESPER data collection based on Article 6 of the Migration Statistics Regulation
- First residence permits,
- Residence permits issued on the occasion of changing the immigration status or reason to stay,
- Residence permits valid at the end of the year,
- Long-term residence permits valid at the end of the year,
- Long-term permits issued during the year.
Statistics collected on voluntary basis
- Residence permits issued for family reunification with beneficiaries of protection status.
16 September 2025
See table 3.4. in annex ‘Quality report tables RESPER’.
Number of persons.
See table 3.6. in annex ‘Quality report tables RESPER’.
Republic of Slovenia.
Calendar year.
Data collected under Article 6 of the Migration Statistics Regulation is collected from reliable administrative source (Register of Foreigners, Asylum Register, the record of long-stay visas), so the high level of data accuracy is guaranteed.
Number of persons.
Not applicable.
See table 18.1. in annex ‘Quality report tables RESPER’.
Annual data. Data on RESPER is disseminated annually by Eurostat and Migration directorate.
The Republic of Slovenia is trying to supply RESPER data to Eurostat no later than 6 months after the end of the reference period.
Fully Compliance. No exceptions involved.
See table 15.2. in annex ‘Quality report tables RESPER’.
