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.
Utlendingsdirektoratet/The Norwegian Directorate of Immigration (UDI).
1.2. Contact organisation unit
Styring og Regelverk/Enhet for statistikk og analyse (ESA)
Governance and Legal Affairs / Statistics and Analysis Division
1.3. Contact name
Confidential because of GDPR
1.4. Contact person function
Confidential because of GDPR
1.5. Contact mail address
Utlendingsdirektoratet Postboks 8108 Dep. 0032 Oslo.
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
31 March 2025
2.2. Metadata last posted
31 March 2025
2.3. Metadata last update
31 March 2025
3.1. Data description
This metadata information is provided by the authorities of Norway to ensure compliance with the requirements of Article 4.4 (Dublin statistics) of Regulation (EU) 2020/851 Amending Regulation (EC) 862/2007 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
As defined by Eurostat guidelines.
3.6. Statistical population
See table 3.6. in annex ‘Quality report tables Dublin 2024’.
3.7. Reference area
Norway.
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
Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on Community statistics on European statistics, which was ratified in March 2009, is applicable to the European Statistical System (ESS), and has been adopted as a regulation pursuant to the Norwegian Statistics Act.
The regulation on European statistics forms the legal framework for the development, preparation and dissemination of European statistics. The regulation is also referred to as the European "Statistics Act", and regulates the cooperation in the ESS.
Norway is a member of the ESS through the EEA agreement. The regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on Community statistics on European statistics was incorporated into Annex XXI of the EEA agreement in December 2009. The regulation was also established in Norwegian law as a regulation pursuant to the Norwegian Statistics Act.
This metadata information is provided by the authorities of Norway to ensure compliance with the requirements of Article 4.4 (Dublin statistics) of Regulation (EU) 2020/851 Amending Regulation (EC) 862/2007 on Migration and International Protection.
As required by Article 9 of the Regulation (EU) 2020/851 Amending Regulation (EC) No 862/2007, Member States must report to Eurostat on the data sources used, the reasons for the selection of these sources and the effects of the selected data on the quality of the statistics. Member States shall provide Eurostat with all the information necessary to evaluate the quality, comparability and completeness of the statistical information.
6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing
Data sharing is mandatory regulated by the Statistics Act; The Norwegian Freedom of Information Act; and The Norwegian Public Admnistration Act Section 13b states that the overall duty of secrecy pursuant to section 13 shall not prevent: "the information from being used for statistical processing, for the preparation of plans and reports, or in connection with auditing or other forms of control of the public administration".
7.1. Confidentiality - policy
The Norwegian program for produceres of official statistics ensures the implementation of the current ESS legal and conceptual framework for confidentialy.
7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment
The Statistics Act § 7. Statistical confidentiality in the dissemination of official statistics requires that The Norwegian Directorate of Immigration does not publish statistics in a manner that allows statistical information to be traced back to individuals or other types of statistical units. Confidentiality can be ensured by using coarser categories, by suppression (hiding values) or by perturbation (changing values). Examples of coarser categories are counties instead of municipalities and age groups of five years instead of single years. Data minimisation is always used in statististical production.
8.1. Release calendar
No national release calendar. ESTAT release calender apply.
8.2. Release calendar access
No national release calendar. ESTAT release calender apply.
8.3. Release policy - user access
Not applicable (Ref. 8. Release policy).
Depending on statistical domain. Frequency varies between weekly, monthly, and yearly disseminations.
Quality management following the Statistics Act and Eurostat technical guidelines for "DUBLIN" statistics – 2021 ref. year onwards.
11.1. Quality assurance
The Norwegian Directorate of Immigration quality is guided by the The quality requirements for official statistics are described in Section 5 of the Statistics Act and the European Statistics Code of Practice (Eurostat, 2017).
Several frameworks for quality in official statistics have been developed internationally and are implemented in Norway.
The European Statistics Code of Practice;
The Fundamental Principles of National Official Statistics (UN);
UN National Quality Assurance Framework (NQAF);
OECD Council Recommendations on Good Statistical Practices;
IMF Data Quality Assessment Framework.
It is Statistics Norway that is responsible for development and implementation of quality assurance framework in Other National Authorites (ONA:s) producing official statistics. The Directortate of Immigration is one of these ONA:s. This includes regular meetings, trainings, and peer reviews.
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 2024: The reported statistics' data source are operational data recording a digitalised workflow and measure accurately the target population.
New data warehouse developed, data for previous years before 2023 will be revised. Data from 2014 - 2022 is flagged as provisional (p).
13.2. Sampling error
No sampling methods are used.
13.2.1. Sampling error - indicators
Not applicable.
13.3. Non-sampling error
No sampling methods used.
13.3.1. Coverage error
Not applicable.
13.3.1.1. Over-coverage - rate
Not applicable.
13.3.1.2. Common units - proportion
Not applicable.
13.3.2. Measurement error
Not applicable.
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 applicable.
13.3.5. Model assumption error
Not applicable.
14.1. Timeliness
Statistical data is usually available four working days after the end of the statistical period.
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
No existing problems of comparability between regions and municipalities of Norway.
15.1.1. Asymmetry for mirror flow statistics - coefficient
Dublin statistics is suitable for mirror statistics comparisons. Initial steps are taken to apply this during preparation of 2024 statistics bilaterally.
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 cross domain coherence problems registered.
15.3.1. Coherence - sub annual and annual statistics
See 15.3.
15.3.2. Coherence - National Accounts
Not applicable.
15.4. Coherence - internal
Statistics data is consistent.
Not applicable.
17.1. Data revision - policy
According to Eurostat revision policy. Data for 2014-2022 is marked as provisional (p) and will be revised. 5 Data sets revised in 2024.
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
Continiously.
18.3. Data collection
All data are collected from administrative data sources recording administrative events during the relevant procedures. Some data are recorded instantly, hourly and mostly daily.
All relevant data are contiously disseminated by our internal users which have access the source data through Business Intelligence apps. All employees have access and is monitoring the quality constantly.
18.4. Data validation
All data is monitored and validated and internal validity is ensured since the data which is reported to ESTAT as cross-sectional datasets are organised as longitudinal data of person/procedure.
18.5. Data compilation
All relevant data originates operational data. All operational are connected with unique keys on asylum/dublin procedure and person.
This metadata information is provided by the authorities of Norway to ensure compliance with the requirements of Article 4.4 (Dublin statistics) of Regulation (EU) 2020/851 Amending Regulation (EC) 862/2007 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).
31 March 2025
See table 3.4. in annex ‘Quality report tables Dublin 2024’.
As defined by Eurostat guidelines.
See table 3.6. in annex ‘Quality report tables Dublin 2024’.
Norway.
Calendar year.
High accuracy 2024: The reported statistics' data source are operational data recording a digitalised workflow and measure accurately the target population.
New data warehouse developed, data for previous years before 2023 will be revised. Data from 2014 - 2022 is flagged as provisional (p).
Number of persons.
All relevant data originates operational data. All operational are connected with unique keys on asylum/dublin procedure and person.
See table 18.1. in annex ‘Quality report tables Dublin 2024'.
Depending on statistical domain. Frequency varies between weekly, monthly, and yearly disseminations.
Statistical data is usually available four working days after the end of the statistical period.
No existing problems of comparability between regions and municipalities of Norway.
See table 15.2. in annex ‘Quality report tables Dublin 2024’.
