Finnish Immigration Service

Statistics Service

PL 10, 00086 Maahanmuuttovirasto, FINLAND

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.

All the statistics within asylum domain are based to data from National UMA-register maintained and developed by Finnish Immigration Service

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• Asylum applications withdrawn by citizenship, age, sex and type of withdrawal (also for unaccompanied minors);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’.

All data explicitly refer to the number of persons.

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

Finland

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

Not applicable.

Number of persons.

Calendar month, calendar quarter and calendar year.

Compilation of statistics on asylum applications is based on Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 and amending Regulation (EU) 2020/852, which depicts in detail the data provisions Member States are bound to supply Eurostat with.

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. The General Data Protection Regulation applies in Finland.

The General Data Protection Regulation applies in Finland.

No national releases. See Eurostat release policy.

No national releases. Statistical information is published in accordance with an approved Eurostat release calendar.

No national releases. See Eurostat release policy.

No national releases. See Eurostat release policy.

No national dissemination. Data is disseminated continuously by Eurostat.

No national dissemination. See 10. Accessibility and clarity section at Eurotat general metadata documents concerning Asylum domain.

No national dissemination. See 10. Accessibility and clarity section at Eurotat general metadata documents concerning Asylum domain.

No national dissemination. See 10. Accessibility and clarity section at Eurotat general metadata documents concerning Asylum domain.

No national dissemination. See 10. Accessibility and clarity section at Eurotat general metadata documents concerning Asylum domain.

Not applicable.

No national dissemination. See 10. Accessibility and clarity section at Eurotat general metadata documents concerning Asylum domain.

No national dissemination. See 10. Accessibility and clarity section at Eurotat general metadata documents concerning Asylum domain.

Not applicable.

No national dissemination. See 10. Accessibility and clarity section at Eurotat general metadata documents concerning Asylum domain.

Not applicable.

No national dissemination. See 10. Accessibility and clarity section at Eurostat general metadata documents concerning Asylum domain.

Statistics within asylum domain are based entirely on administrative sources of the institutions producing the statistics (see See table 18.1 in annex ‘Quality report tables Asylum 2023’).

The statistics are produces in compliance with the Council Regulation (EC) 862/2007 as amended by the Regulation 2020/851 and following guidelines and instructions provided by Eurostat. Before publishing the data, consistent validation checks are performed.

Data quality management and assessments is an essential part of a continuing process of the administrative registers developing and maintenance.

See Eurostat section on Relevance:

"Users of Eurostat asylum statistics are:

• various policy DGs in the European Commission, like DG Migration and Home Affairs for designing, funding and implementing asylum related policies in the EU,
• European Parliament,
• national authorities (Ministries of Interior, Ministries of Justice, immigration agencies) who use Asylum data to monitor or project the development of their national asylum procedures,
• European Migration Network (EMN) which uses the Asylum data as a basis for its annual EU and national level statistical and analytical reports,
• researchers and students conducting analysis and research in the field of asylum,
• journalists and international organisations in the area of asylum and migration."

Eurostat metadata: Eurostat does not conduct user satisfaction surveys per se. Instead, the user satisfaction is monitored on a constant way through informal and formal contacts and communications with users and through requests and comments received by users.

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

Not applicable.

The overall assessment of the accuracy of data collection is considered to be high.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

No known non-sampling error.

No known undercoverage or overcoverge.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

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

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

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

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Internal consistency (between time, age, sex, country, citizenship) is ensured through various time series based validation checks during data production process but also by Eurostat before data publication.

No information on cost and burden.

According to Eurostat revision policy:

To further specify the general Eurostat revision policy, in the area of Asylum statistics a revision policy has been consulted with the Asylum and Managed Migration Working Group in March 2014. This policy is presented in the Annex 4 of the technical guidelines Asylum - Eurostat guidelines to Asylum templates - 2021 onwards.

According to this and following the Eurostat’s revision policy, revisions of asylum statistics are classified in three main types: routine, unscheduled error, and major revisions. As a general rule, the routine revisions shall be delivered with an annual frequency, error revisions can be delivered any time, while major revisions are to be sent with prior notification to Eurostat and are subject of Eurostat's approval.

For more information, please see also in the Eurostat dedicated section on Asylum.

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

Not applicable.

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

Monthly, quarterly and annually.

This data collection is administered by Eurostat. The statistics are collected and the statistics produced by Finnish Immigrations Service and are supplied to Eurostat.

In addition to data quality operations performed during national statistics production Eurostat performs a set of standardized validation checks before publishing the data.

See Eurostat validation procedures: "The transmission and the delivery of the datasets to Eurostat is managed by EDAMIS, the unique entry point. Statistical data must meet the Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange (SDMX) standard with the CSV data transmission format. The validation service infrastructure is built on two components performing validation operations, first structural validation (STRUVAL) checking the structure and organisation of a dataset, and then content validation (CONVAL) checking the content of the statistical files based on a set predefined validation rule. The data provider always receives two validation reports from each data transmission.

Validation rules to ensure internal data consistency:

• variable codes and values of data are from a predefined set of accepted code-lists and format;
• statistics are confronted against other relevant data (e.g. a 'total' value of a given disaggregation (dimension) should equal the sum of the disaggregated data);
• investigating inconsistencies in the statistics;
• analysis of size and sign of revision;
• verifying the statistics against expectations and domain intelligence;
• outlier detection.

Automatically validated data in Edamis are forwarded to Eurostat's production system, where they are further validated by data managers using other validation tools and then published on the Eurobase website."

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

No statistical technique applied.