Statistics Austria

Federal Ministry of the Interior

Social Statistics Directorate (Statistics Austria)

Statistics Austria

Guglgasse 13

1110 Vienna

Austria

Data collection on asylum statistics contains statistical information based on the Article 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3 of Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 on Community statistics on migration and international protection.

Asylum applications:

• Asylum, first time and subsequent applicants by citizenship, age and sex (also for unaccompanied minors);
• Persons subject of asylum applications pending at the end of month by citizenship, age and sex (also for unaccompanied minors);
• Asylum applications withdrawn by citizenship, age, sex and type of withdrawal (also for unaccompanied minors);
• Asylum applicants having had their applications processed under the accelerated procedure by citizenship, age and sex (also for unaccompanied minors);
• Applicants having benefited from material reception conditions at the end of the reference year;
• Asylum applicants considered to be unaccompanied minors by citizenship, age and sex.

Decisions on asylum applications:

• First instance decisions on applications by citizenship, age, sex and type of decision (also for unaccompanied minors);
• Decisions withdrawing status granted at first instance decision by citizenship, type of decision and type of reason (also for unaccompanied minors);
• Final decisions in appeal or review on applications by citizenship, age, sex and type of decision (also for unaccompanied minors);
• Decisions withdrawing status granted as final decision in appeal or review by citizenship, type of decision and type of reason (also for unaccompanied minors).

Resettled persons:

• Resettled persons by citizenship, age and sex (also for unaccompanied minors);
• Resettled persons by citizenship, age, sex and country of previous residence;
• Resettled persons by citizenship, age, sex and type of decision;
• Resettled persons by citizenship, age, sex and resettlement framework. 

In March 2022, the European Commission activated the Temporary Protection Directive 2001/55/EC for people from Ukraine seeking refuge.

Temporary protection:

• Decisions granting temporary protection by citizenship, age and sex (also for unaccompanied minors);
• Beneficiaries of temporary protection at the end of the month by citizenship, age and sex (also for unaccompanied minors).

See table 3.2. in annex ‘Quality report tables Asylum 2023’.

Migration and asylum – Asylum statistics.

See table 3.4. in annex ‘Quality report tables Asylum 2023’.

Number of cases, where each case is assigned to only one individual.

See table 3.6. in annex ‘Quality report tables Asylum 2023’.

Austria

See table 3.8. in annex ‘Quality report tables Asylum 2023’.

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Number of persons.

Calendar month, calendar quarter and calendar year.

The Federal Statistics Act 2000, Federal Law Gazette I No. 163/1999 as amended, provides the general legal framework and contains the basic provisions for the compilation of federal statistics.

Statistics Austria and the Federal Ministry of the Interior signed a contract regarding the compilation and transmission of statistics to Eurostat in accordance with the Regulation (EC) 862/2007, Articles 4 to 7.

The Federal Statistics Act 2000, Federal Law Gazette I No. 163/1999 as amended, provides the general legal framework and contains the basic provisions for the compilation of federal statistics. Artcle 17 of this document regulates confidentiality of statistics.

Statistics Austria receives anonymised data from the Ministry of the Interior and applies the "need2know"-rule, i.e. only staff responsible for this project can access the data. Microdata are not accessible in any form for external users.

Statistics Austria: There is no fixed schedule of statistical release dates. Data on the monthly number of asylum applications are usually released on the same day as data are transmitted to ESTAT.

Statistics Austria: There is no release calendar for Asylum statistics.

Statistics Austria: monthly publication of number of asylum applications on the website of Statistics Austria (accessible for everyone); Statistics Austria does not offer access to micro-data on Asylum statistics to users

Statistics Austria publishes numbers of asylum applications monthly.

Ministry of the Interior: monthly and annual publications

Statistics Austria does not have press releases on the topic of asylum statistics.

Annual publications by Statistics Austria including Asylum statistics:

- Yearbook migration & integration 

- Statistical Yearbook of Austria

 Ministry of the Interior: monthly an annual publications of the report on asylum statistics on the website of the Ministry of the Interior 

None besides the ESTAT database.

Not applicable

Micro-data are not disseminated.

There are no other dissemination formats by Statistics Austria on asylum statistics.

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Standard Documentation on Asylum Statistics for Eurostat:

German long version

English short version

Not applicable.

Standard Documentation on Asylum Statistics for Eurostat:

German long version

English short version

Continuous quality assessments of data retrievals by the Federal Ministry of the Interior and their division of ICT (Information- and Communication Technology).

Quality evaluation cycle between the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Statistics Austria based on the monthly data exchange.

Data is of good quality as it is taken from entries in the Austrian Central Foreigners Register, which documents each administrative step for all asylum procedures in Austria. A PIN allows for the linkage of data within the IFA-database. However, so far, this is not compatible with other administrative registers. Therefore, comparison with other administrative data is only possible through statistical matching of individual variables (e.g. citizenship, date of birth, country of origin/destination) with respective uncertainties of the results.

Statistics Austria does not have a quantitative assessment of the use of asylum statisitics but users are expected to be:

National:

• Federal Chancellery
• Federal Ministries
• Political bodies such as the National Council, the Federal Council, the Federal State Parliaments (Landtage), etc.
• Bodied the represent specific interest groups (e.g. social partners, the Chamber of Labour, the Chamber of Commerce, bodies that represent certain professions,...)
• Political bodies representing national and federal interests as well as municipalities
• Statistics Austria (internal users)

International:

• European Commission
• European Court of Auditors
• European Central Bank
• OECD
• UN and their Subdivisions
• IWF
• Non-Profit-Organisations

Other

• Media
• Educational institutions
• Research institutions
• Health institutions
• Businesses
• General public

No information available

See table 12.3. in annex ‘Quality report tables Asylum 2023’.

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High accuracy: The reported statistics measure accurately the target population because the database includes all cases.

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Not applicable, see 13.1

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Raw data are available on the first day of the month; data processing takes up to 30 days.

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See table 14.2. in annex ‘Quality report tables Asylum 2023’.

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Statistics are comparable between geographical areas within Austria.

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Significant changes in results between months are checked for plausibilty in relation to changes of asylum policies affecting Austria (e.g. as Serbia enhanced its border control in autumn 2023, there was a noticeable drop in in the number of asylum applications between October and November 2023 because fewer people used a route via Serbia to apply for asylum in Austria).

See also table 15.2. in annex ‘Quality report tables Asylum 2023’.

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Small differences between (preliminary) monthly and quarterly/annual data are possible due to late data entries but also due to the procedure of age assessments. See 17.1.

Not applicable.

Statistics are consistent within a given dataset.

Since administrative data are used, there are no costs/burden on respondents.

Data for monthly tables A01, A18 and A20 are revised once per year to correct for late data entries and to achieve coherence with annual data.

See table 17.2. in annex ‘Quality report tables Asylum 2023’.

For the reference year 2022, revised data and first transmitted data differed on average by 291 asylum applications per month (higher number for revised data due to late data entries).

See table 18.1. in annex ‘Quality report tables Asylum 2023’.

Continuously.

The initial data collection - in particular the personal data (age, gender, nationality) - is carried out by the responsible police stations (initial reception centers for asylum seekers) on Austrian territory using a special input mask in the police registration system PAD (Protokollierung-Anzeigen-Datei). From there, the information is transferred via an interface into the Integrated Foreigners Application (IFA) of the Ministry of the Interior. As the authority to process asylum procedures has been delegated by the Ministry of the Interior to the subordinate Federal Office for Immigration and Asylum (BFA), all further procedural steps are entered directly by the BFA into the IFA. The Federal Ministry of the Interior receives a daily updated database, which is also used to create datasets required for the compilation of European asylum statistics, which are transmitted to Statistics Austria.

Statistics Austria monitors the monthly, quarterly and annual data by cross-checking results with the Ministry of the Interior.

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No statistical technique applied.

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