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.
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.
All the statistics within Dublin domain are based to data from National UMA-register maintained and developed by Finnish Immigration Service:
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
Number of persons concerned by the request.
3.6. Statistical population
See table 3.6. in annex ‘Quality report tables Dublin 2024’.
3.7. Reference area
Finland
3.8. Coverage - Time
See table 3.8. in annex ‘Quality report tables Dublin 2024’.
3.9. Base period
Not applicable.
Number of persons.
Calendar year.
6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements
The compilation of Dublin statistics is based on Article 4.4 of Regulation (EC) 862/2007 of 11 July 2007 and its amending Regulation (EU) 2020/851 of 18 June 2020. The legal acts detail the data provisions Member States are obliged to supply to Eurostat.
6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing
At Finnish Immigration Service the main source for data is national UMA-register that is owned by the FIS and it has a direct authority over. No data sharing involved in the statistics production processes.
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
The General Data Protection Regulation applies in Finland.
8.1. Release calendar
No national releases. See Eurostat release calendar.
8.2. Release calendar access
No national releases. See Eurostat information on calendar access.
8.3. Release policy - user access
No national releases. See Eurostat release policy:
No national dissemination. Data is disseminated by Eurostat.
10.1. Dissemination format - News release
No national dissemination. See section 10. Accessibility and clarity at Eurostat general metadata documents concerning Dublin domain.
10.2. Dissemination format - Publications
No national dissemination. See section 10. Accessibility and clarity at Eurostat general metadata documents concerning Dublin domain.
10.3. Dissemination format - online database
No national dissemination. See section 10. Accessibility and clarity at Eurostat general metadata documents concerning Dublin domain.
10.3.1. Data tables - consultations
Not applicable.
10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access
No national dissemination. See section 10. Accessibility and clarity at Eurostat general metadata documents concerning Dublin domain.
10.5. Dissemination format - other
No national dissemination. See section 10. Accessibility and clarity at Eurostat general metadata documents concerning Dublin domain.
10.5.1. Metadata - consultations
Not applicable.
10.6. Documentation on methodology
Member States have the responsibility of providing “Dublin” statistics to Eurostat in accordance with the Article 4.4. of the Regulation (EC) 862/2007 as amended by the Regulation (EU) 2020/851. Eurostat provides Technical Guidelines to the countries describing the procedures and the quality requirements for the statistics collected (see Annexes). All the Dublin statistics are compiled according technical quidelines.
10.6.1. Metadata completeness - rate
Not applicable.
10.7. Quality management - documentation
See Annexes.
11.1. Quality assurance
Statistics within asylum domain are based entirely on administrative sources of the institutions producing the statistics (see table 18.1 in annex ‘Quality report tables Dublin 2024’).
Data quality management and assessments is an essential part of a continuing process of the administrative registers developing and maintenance.
12.1. Relevance - User Needs
EU relevance:
"Users of Eurostat Dublin (and Asylum) statistics are:
various policy DGs in the European Commission, such as DG Migration and Home Affairs and the European Union Asylum Agency for designing, funding and implementing asylum related policies in EU;
European Parliament;
national authorities (Ministries of Interior, Ministries of Justice, Migration agencies) that use Dublin and Asylum data to monitor or plan the development of their national asylum procedures;
European Migration Network (EMN) that uses the 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."
12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction
Eurostat does not conduct user satisfaction surveys. Users’ satisfaction is monitored on a constant basis through informal and formal contact and communication (e.g. requests and comments received by users).
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
The overall assessment of the accuracy of data collection is considered to be satisfactory.
13.2. Sampling error
Not applicable.
13.2.1. Sampling error - indicators
Not applicable.
13.3. Non-sampling error
No known non-sampling errors.
13.3.1. Coverage error
No known overcoverage or undercoverage errors.
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
No time lag between data availability and the administrative procedures concerning the Dublin process.
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 2023’.
14.2.1. Punctuality - delivery and publication
Dublin statistics are delivered to Eurostat by the legal deadline (within three months after the end of the reference year). Publication according Eurostat release calender.
15.1. Comparability - geographical
Not applicable.
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
See table 15.2. in annex ‘Quality report tables Dublin 2024’.
15.3. Coherence - cross domain
No incoherence cross dublin statistics.
15.3.1. Coherence - sub annual and annual statistics
Only annual statistics deliveries on Dublin statistics. Therefore sub annual statistics and annual statistics discrepancy can not exist.
15.3.2. Coherence - National Accounts
No national statistics production on Dublin statistics. Therefore no comparisons with the national dublin statistcs can not be made and incoherence can not exist.
15.4. Coherence - internal
The statistics are consistent within a given data set.
No information on cost and burden.
17.1. Data revision - policy
Eurostat data revision policy applies:
"The general Eurostat revision policy applies to this domain. According to the policy for routine revisions, national data continue to be revised when additional information from national authorities becomes available. If errors are detected in either national data or in European aggregates, they are corrected immediately. Major revisions and changes in methodology which may lead to breaks in time series shall be announced in advance by the national data providers and approved by Eurostat."
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
Annual.
18.3. Data collection
This statistics collection is administered by Eurostat. The statistics are collected and the statistics produced by Finnish Immigrations Service and are supplied to Eurostat. Statistics are based entirely on admininstrative register data (National UMA register, see annex "Quality report tables Dublin 2024" - Table 18.1.). Data is loaded from UMA register to statistical dataware house by ETL (extract, transform and load) process of which includes automatic data quality checks. Administrative data is assessed within the adminstrative process and uma register maintanance. Finnish Immigration Service maintains and develops Uma register as well as carries out national administrative Dublin process which makes the full data collection production transparent to statistics producers.
18.4. Data validation
In addition to data quality operations performed during national statistics production, before being disseminated through the Eurostat online databases, internal consistency of the data files is ensured by Eurostat.
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.
All the statistics within Dublin domain are based to data from National UMA-register maintained and developed by Finnish Immigration Service:
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)
27 March 2025
See table 3.4. in annex ‘Quality report tables Dublin 2024’.
Number of persons concerned by the request.
See table 3.6. in annex ‘Quality report tables Dublin 2024’.
Finland
Calendar year.
The overall assessment of the accuracy of data collection is considered to be satisfactory.
Number of persons.
Not applicable.
See table 18.1. in annex ‘Quality report tables Dublin 2024’.
No national dissemination. Data is disseminated by Eurostat.
No time lag between data availability and the administrative procedures concerning the Dublin process.
Not applicable.
See table 15.2. in annex ‘Quality report tables Dublin 2024’.
