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.
Social Statistics Directorate (Statistics Austria)
1.3. Contact name
Confidential because of GDPR
1.4. Contact person function
Confidential because of GDPR
1.5. Contact mail address
Statistics Austria
Guglgasse 13
1110 Vienna
Austria
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
26 March 2025
2.2. Metadata last posted
25 July 2025
2.3. Metadata last update
26 March 2025
3.1. Data description
Data collection on Dublin statistics contains statistical information based on the Article 4.4 of Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 on Community statistics on migration and international protection.
Incoming ‘Dublin’ requests by submitting country (PARTNER), type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant (RI)
Outgoing ‘Dublin’ requests by receiving country (PARTNER), type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant (RO)
Incoming ‘Dublin’ requests based on EURODAC by submitting country (PARTNER), type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant (REDACI)
Outgoing ‘Dublin’ requests based on EURODAC by receiving country (PARTNER), type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant (REDACO)
Pending ‘Dublin’ incoming requests by submitting country (PARTNER), type of request, sex and type of applicant (RPENI)
Pending ‘Dublin’ outgoing requests by receiving country (PARTNER), type of request, sex and type of applicant (RPENO)
Incoming ‘Dublin’ requests for information by submitting country (PARTNER), legal provision, sex and type of applicant (RINFI)
Outgoing ‘Dublin’ requests for information by receiving country (PARTNER), legal provision, sex and type of applicant (RINFO)
Incoming responses to ‘Dublin’ requests for information by submitting country (PARTNER), legal provision, duration of response, sex and type of applicant (RESI)
Outgoing responses to ‘Dublin’ requests for information by receiving country (PARTNER), legal provision, duration of response, sex and type of applicant (RESO)
Unilateral ‘Dublin’ decisions by partner country, type of decision, sex and type of applicant (DUNI)
Decisions on incoming ‘Dublin’ requests by submitting country (PARTNER), type of decision, type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant (DI)
Decisions on outgoing ‘Dublin’ requests by receiving country (PARTNER), type of decision, type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant (DO)
Decisions on incoming ‘Dublin’ requests based on EURODAC by submitting country (PARTNER), type of decision, type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant (DEDACI)
Decisions on outgoing ‘Dublin’ requests based on EURODAC by receiving country (PARTNER), type of decision, type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant (DEDACO)
Incoming ‘Dublin’ transfers by submitting country (PARTNER), legal provision, duration of transfer, sex and type of applicant (TI)
Outgoing ‘Dublin’ transfers by receiving country (PARTNER), legal provision, duration of transfer, sex and type of applicant (TO)
Pending incoming ‘Dublin’ transfers by submitting country (PARTNER), sex and type of applicant (TPENI)
Pending outgoing ‘Dublin’ transfers by receiving country (PARTNER), sex and type of applicant (TPENO)
3.2. Classification system
See table 3.2. in annex ‘Quality report tables Dublin 2024’.
3.3. Coverage - sector
Migration and asylum – Dublin statistics.
3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions
See table 3.4. in annex ‘Quality report tables Dublin 2024’.
3.5. Statistical unit
Dublin In & Dublin Out: the number of cases, which may include one or more requests per person.
3.6. Statistical population
See table 3.6. in annex ‘Quality report tables Dublin 2024’.
3.7. Reference area
Austria
3.8. Coverage - Time
See table 3.8. in annex ‘Quality report tables Dublin 2024’.
3.9. Base period
Not applicable.
Number of applications/requests
Calendar year.
6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements
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.
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.
6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing
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.
7.1. Confidentiality - policy
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. Article 17 of this document regulates confidentiality of statistics.
7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment
Statistics Austria receives anonymized 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.
8.1. Release calendar
Statistics Austria does not release/publish/disseminate Dublin statistics in any form.
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 data exchange.
11.2. Quality management - assessment
Data is of overall good quality as it is taken from administrative data. The database is continuously checked for errors.
12.1. Relevance - User Needs
Statistics Austria does not publish Dublin data nor provide access to micro-data for users.
12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction
Not applicable.
12.3. Completeness
See table 12.3. in annex ‘Quality report tables Dublin 2024’.
12.3.1. Data completeness - rate
Not applicable.
13.1. Accuracy - overall
High accuracy: The reported statistics measure accurately the target population because the database includes all cases.
13.2. Sampling error
Not applicable.
13.2.1. Sampling error - indicators
Not applicable.
13.3. Non-sampling error
Not available.
13.3.1. Coverage error
No coverage error; the database includes all cases.
13.3.1.1. Over-coverage - rate
Not applicable.
13.3.1.2. Common units - proportion
Not applicable.
13.3.2. Measurement error
Not available.
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
Not available.
13.3.5. Model assumption error
Not applicable.
14.1. Timeliness
Raw data are available on the first day of the month; data processing takes up to 30 days.
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 Dublin 2024’.
14.2.1. Punctuality - delivery and publication
Not applicable.
15.1. Comparability - geographical
Overall, statistics are comparable between geographical areas within Austria. There can be differences between Austrian incoming transfers and other countries outgoing transfers to Austria or between Austrian outgoing requests and other countries incoming requests from Austria due to different definitions and or methods. E.g. Austria counts only the first request if a person files more than one.
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 Dublin 2024’.
15.2.1. Length of comparable time series
Not applicable.
15.3. Coherence - cross domain
No coherence issues.
15.3.1. Coherence - sub annual and annual statistics
There are only annual data, no monthly nor quarterly data.
15.3.2. Coherence - National Accounts
Not applicable.
15.4. Coherence - internal
Statistics are consistent within a given dataset.
Since administrative data are used, there are no costs/burden on respondents.
17.1. Data revision - policy
No need for revisions of data sent to Eurostat, as they are derived from annual national statistics and created only after final national results are available.
17.2. Data revision - practice
See table 17.2. in annex ‘Quality report tables Dublin 2024’.
17.2.1. Data revision - average size
Not applicable.
18.1. Source data
See table 18.1. in annex ‘Quality report tables Dublin 2024’.
18.2. Frequency of data collection
Continuously.
18.3. Data collection
Data are derived from the database named in 18.1 (Annex).
18.4. Data validation
Data are collected monthly on the first of the month and transmitted to the Dublin department. Missing or wrong entries are transmitted in a separate clearing list. The Dublin department checks the figures and corrects the errors in cooperation with the clearing office within 14 days.
Possible missing entries: memberstate of Dublin transaction, date of Dublin transaction, article of regulation.
Possible wrong entries: Non Memberstate as Dublin transfer State, Date in Future or Numerical error
18.5. Data compilation
The data base is the Integrated Foreigners Application (IFA) of the Ministry of the Interior. Using this source, the Federal Ministry of the Interior creates datasets required for the compilation of European DUBLIN statistics. Since this source covers all cases, no imputations, adjustments for non-responses, calculations of weights, etc. are necessary. The datasets are transmitted to Statistics Austria, who compiles the final tables and submits them to ESTAT.
Data collection on Dublin statistics contains statistical information based on the Article 4.4 of Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 on Community statistics on migration and international protection.
Incoming ‘Dublin’ requests by submitting country (PARTNER), type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant (RI)
Outgoing ‘Dublin’ requests by receiving country (PARTNER), type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant (RO)
Incoming ‘Dublin’ requests based on EURODAC by submitting country (PARTNER), type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant (REDACI)
Outgoing ‘Dublin’ requests based on EURODAC by receiving country (PARTNER), type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant (REDACO)
Pending ‘Dublin’ incoming requests by submitting country (PARTNER), type of request, sex and type of applicant (RPENI)
Pending ‘Dublin’ outgoing requests by receiving country (PARTNER), type of request, sex and type of applicant (RPENO)
Incoming ‘Dublin’ requests for information by submitting country (PARTNER), legal provision, sex and type of applicant (RINFI)
Outgoing ‘Dublin’ requests for information by receiving country (PARTNER), legal provision, sex and type of applicant (RINFO)
Incoming responses to ‘Dublin’ requests for information by submitting country (PARTNER), legal provision, duration of response, sex and type of applicant (RESI)
Outgoing responses to ‘Dublin’ requests for information by receiving country (PARTNER), legal provision, duration of response, sex and type of applicant (RESO)
Unilateral ‘Dublin’ decisions by partner country, type of decision, sex and type of applicant (DUNI)
Decisions on incoming ‘Dublin’ requests by submitting country (PARTNER), type of decision, type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant (DI)
Decisions on outgoing ‘Dublin’ requests by receiving country (PARTNER), type of decision, type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant (DO)
Decisions on incoming ‘Dublin’ requests based on EURODAC by submitting country (PARTNER), type of decision, type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant (DEDACI)
Decisions on outgoing ‘Dublin’ requests based on EURODAC by receiving country (PARTNER), type of decision, type of request, legal provision, sex and type of applicant (DEDACO)
Incoming ‘Dublin’ transfers by submitting country (PARTNER), legal provision, duration of transfer, sex and type of applicant (TI)
Outgoing ‘Dublin’ transfers by receiving country (PARTNER), legal provision, duration of transfer, sex and type of applicant (TO)
Pending incoming ‘Dublin’ transfers by submitting country (PARTNER), sex and type of applicant (TPENI)
Pending outgoing ‘Dublin’ transfers by receiving country (PARTNER), sex and type of applicant (TPENO)
26 March 2025
See table 3.4. in annex ‘Quality report tables Dublin 2024’.
Dublin In & Dublin Out: the number of cases, which may include one or more requests per person.
See table 3.6. in annex ‘Quality report tables Dublin 2024’.
Austria
Calendar year.
High accuracy: The reported statistics measure accurately the target population because the database includes all cases.
Number of applications/requests
The data base is the Integrated Foreigners Application (IFA) of the Ministry of the Interior. Using this source, the Federal Ministry of the Interior creates datasets required for the compilation of European DUBLIN statistics. Since this source covers all cases, no imputations, adjustments for non-responses, calculations of weights, etc. are necessary. The datasets are transmitted to Statistics Austria, who compiles the final tables and submits them to ESTAT.
See table 18.1. in annex ‘Quality report tables Dublin 2024’.
Statistics Austria does not release/publish/disseminate Dublin statistics in any form.
Raw data are available on the first day of the month; data processing takes up to 30 days.
Overall, statistics are comparable between geographical areas within Austria. There can be differences between Austrian incoming transfers and other countries outgoing transfers to Austria or between Austrian outgoing requests and other countries incoming requests from Austria due to different definitions and or methods. E.g. Austria counts only the first request if a person files more than one.
See table 15.2. in annex ‘Quality report tables Dublin 2024’.
