Swedish Migration Agency

Planning Department

Unit for statistics

Slottsgatan 82, 602 22 Norrköping

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• Asylum applications withdrawn by citizenship, age, sex and type of withdrawal (also for unaccompanied minors);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

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

Sweden.

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

Not applicable.

Number of persons.

Calendar month, calendar quarter and calendar year.

The compilation of Asylum statistics is based on Article 4.1-4.3 of Regulation (EC) 862/2007  which depicts in details the data provisions Sweden are bound to supply Eurostat with.

Not applicable.

Statistical confidentiality is guaranteed by law, in chapter 24 article 8 in the Public Access to Information and Secrecy Act (OSL 2009:400) and article 7 in the Public Access to Information and Secrecy Ordinance (OSF 2009:641). The provision refers specifically to secrecy for the protection of individuals.

All staff at Swedish Migration Agency (SMA) sign legal confidentiality commitments stating that they have taken note of the relevant confidentiality provisions. Breaches of confidentiality are punishable by The Swedish Penal Code (1962:7800) in chapter 20 article 3.

There are physical, technological and organisational provisions in place to protect the security and integrity of the data at SMA. Organisational provision are laid out according the legislation outlined in chapter 24 article 8 OSL and article 7 in OSF. Microdata are protected by absolute confidentiality by above mentioned articles in OSL and OSF. Only authorised staff, and as few as possible, are given access to sensitive data concerning statistical activities. For access to the statistics systems, there is an eligibility model based on process, role and eligibility.  In order to meet the legal requirements of the Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the possibility of gaining access to the operational views have been severely limited for the majority of the staff at the agency.

Not officially presented at national level.

Not officially presented at national level.

Not officially presented at national level.

Monthly, Quartely, Yearly

Not available.

Not available.

Not available.

Not applicable.

Not available.

Not available.

Not applicable.

Not available.

Not applicable.

Not available.

Not available.

Asylum statistics in Sweden follow the given guidelines given in art. 4.1-4.3 of Regulation (EC) 862/2007. 

A new data warehouse has been developed with the aim to significantly increase data quality and data retrieval capabilities. 

The statistics collected under Regulation (EC) 862/2007 are used by a wide range of users at national, European and International level to cover various usersʼ needs.

Users of asylum statistics : Eurostat, EUAA, Department of Justice, national authorities.

User satisfaction not collected.

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

Not applicable.

A new data warehouse has been developed and has significantly increased data quality and data retrieval capabilities

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Sweden is able to report the data at the earliest 2 days efter the end of the reference period

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

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

Not applicable.

No problems of comparability between regions in Sweden.

Not applicable.

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

Not applicable.

Only differences in some definitions according to guidelines

Variables pertaining to the individual refer to the most recent registration at the date of data extraction, reporting of the same month can thus vary depending on the date of data extraction

Not applicable.

No internal incoherence.

Regular statistical reporting and revising to EDAMIS estimated to 20 working days per year. This does not include time to implement changes in guidelines in regular reporting. 

Metadata questionnaire estimated to 10 working days involving 2 workers.

Data is revised continuously during the year.

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

Not applicable.

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

Daily.

Data is directly registered by operative personnel into the central database. Data is then transformed and retrieved daily by our data systems, from which data is extracted and repurposed as csv-files.

No such regular national validation process. The act of validation and the extent of it is done at a case by case basis as seen fit by the person extracting the data. 

There are many cases of using several variables in conjecture to group data used on national level.

Not applicable.

No adjustments made.

No statistical technique applied.