1.1. Contact organisation
Finnish Immigration Service
1.2. Contact organisation unit
Statistics Service
1.3. Contact name
Confidential because of GDPR
1.4. Contact person function
Confidential because of GDPR
1.5. Contact mail address
PL 10, 00086 Maahanmuuttovirasto, FINLAND
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
12 September 2024
2.2. Metadata last posted
12 September 2024
2.3. Metadata last update
2 December 2025
3.1. Data description
Enforcement of immigration legislation data (EIL statistics) contain statistical information based on Article 5 and 7 of the Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 as amended by the Regulation (EU) 2020/851 with reference to third-country nationals:
- Refused entry at the external border
- Found to be illegally present
- Ordered to leave
- Returned following an order to leave.
Annexes:
Metadata annex for statistics "EIL found to be illegally present"
3.2. Classification system
See table 3.2. in annex ‘Quality report tables EIL 2024’.
3.3. Coverage - sector
Migration and asylum – Enforcement of Immigration Legislation statistics.
3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions
See table 3.4. in annex ‘Quality report tables EIL 2024’.
3.5. Statistical unit
Number of persons.
3.6. Statistical population
See table 3.6. in annex ‘Quality report tables EIL 2024’.
3.7. Reference area
Finland.
3.8. Coverage - Time
See table 3.8. in annex ‘Quality report tables EIL 2024’.
3.9. Base period
Not applicable.
Number of persons.
Calendar quarter and calendar year.
6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements
The compilation of statistics on enforcement of immigration legislation is based on Article 5 and 7 of Council Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 of 11 July 2007 as amended by the Regulation 2020/851 which depicts in details the data provisions Member States are bound to supply Eurostat with.
6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing
Y1, Refused entry at the external border (Finnish Border Guard)
The statistics are collected and processed by National Border Guard using data retrieved from atministrative register RVT.
The statistics is forwarded to the Finnish Migration Service to be included in the national EIL contribution.
Y2, Found to be illegally present (National Bureau of Investigation (Police)
The statistics are collected and processed by the National Bureau of Investigation. The processing and compilation of EIL statistics for table Y2 are based on case registration records by the law enforcement authorities. The basic data is retrieved from the national electronic law enforcement case management database PATJA. The statistics is forwarded to the Finnish Migration Service to be included in the national EIL contribution.
Y5.1-Y5.2, Ordered to leave (Finnish Immigration Service)
Y6.1-Y6.2, Returned following an order to leave. (Finnish Immigration Service)
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.
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. The General Data Protection Regulation applies in Finland.
7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment
Not applicable.
8.1. Release calendar
According Eurostat release calender. No national releases concerning EIL statistics.
8.2. Release calendar access
Not applicable.
8.3. Release policy - user access
Not applicable.
Annual and quarterly data.
10.1. Dissemination format - News release
Accessibility and clarity 10.1 10.7 see Eurostat generel metadata for EIL statistics.
10.2. Dissemination format - Publications
Accessibility and clarity 10.1 10.7 see Eurostat generel metadata for EIL statistics.
10.3. Dissemination format - online database
Accessibility and clarity 10.1 10.7 see Eurostat generel metadata for EIL statistics.
10.3.1. Data tables - consultations
Not applicable.
10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access
Accessibility and clarity 10.1 10.7 see Eurostat generel metadata for EIL statistics.
10.5. Dissemination format - other
Accessibility and clarity 10.1 10.7 see Eurostat generel metadata for EIL statistics.
10.5.1. Metadata - consultations
Not applicable.
10.6. Documentation on methodology
Accessibility and clarity 10.1 10.7 see Eurostat generel metadata for EIL statistics.
10.6.1. Metadata completeness - rate
Not applicable.
10.7. Quality management - documentation
Accessibility and clarity 10.1 10.7 see Eurostat generel metadata for EIL statistics.
11.1. Quality assurance
Statistics on enforcement of immigration legislation are based entirely on administrative sources of the institutions producing the statistics (see See table 18.1 in annex ‘Quality report tables EIL 2024’).
The statistics are produces in compliance with the Council Regulation (EC) 862/2007 as amended by the Regulation 2020/851and following guidelines and instructions provided by Eurostat. Before publishing the data, consistent validation checks are performed.
11.2. Quality management - assessment
Data quality management and assessments is an essential part of a continuing process of the adminstrative registers developing and maintance.
12.1. Relevance - User Needs
EIL statistics are nationally used by wide range of different end users eg. policy makers, officals by national administrations or academic researchers.
EU relevance: Within the Commission, the main user of migration and asylum statistics is DG Home Affairs. However, these statistics are also frequently used by other Directorates General. The statistics are used in several publications of the Commission, as well as in the preparation of regular reports, policy proposals and analysis. For example, the Commission's Annual Report on Immigration and Asylum uses these statistics as a means to quantify progress made towards the implementation of the 2008 European Pact on Immigration and Asylum and to highlight recommendations for further actions. Migration and asylum statistics are also used by the European Migration Network (EMN) as a basis for its annual EU- and national-level statistical and analytical reports. The statistics also provide an input to the EMN studies and reports that address specific issues of current policy importance. The statistics collected under the Regulation are widely used in official publications and by a wide range of users. In addition to publication on the Eurostat website and on-line dissemination database, there are regular Eurostat quarterly and annual publications that provide updated statistics and statistical commentary. The statistics produced under the Regulation are regularly used by national administrations, academic researchers and civil society groups working on a wide range of topics including the integration of immigrants, the development and monitoring of national asylum and immigration procedures, and the projection of the future population and labour force.
12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction
Not available.
12.3. Completeness
See table 12.3. in annex ‘Quality report tables EIL 2024’.
12.3.1. Data completeness - rate
Not applicable.
13.1. Accuracy - overall
Statistics are produced using data from administrative registers. Data accuracy can be assessed as high.
13.2. Sampling error
Not applicable.
13.2.1. Sampling error - indicators
Not applicable.
13.3. Non-sampling error
Not applicable.
13.3.1. Coverage error
See table 13.3.1. in annex ‘Quality report tables EIL 2024’.
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
Not applicable.
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 EIL 2024’.
14.2.1. Punctuality - delivery and publication
Not applicable.
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 EIL 2024’.
15.2.1. Length of comparable time series
Not applicable.
15.3. Coherence - cross domain
See table 15.3. in annex ‘Quality report tables EIL 2024’.
15.3.1. Coherence - sub annual and annual statistics
Not applicable.
15.3.2. Coherence - National Accounts
Not applicable.
15.4. Coherence - internal
Internal coherence is monitored through the various timeseries validations performed on the data before publication.
No information available.
17.1. Data revision - policy
The general Eurostat revision policy applies to this domain. Data revisions are made only in case of the known error in the produced statistics.
17.2. Data revision - practice
See table 17.2. in annex ‘Quality report tables EIL 2024’.
17.2.1. Data revision - average size
Not applicable.
18.1. Source data
See table 18.1. in annex ‘Quality report tables EIL 2024’.
18.2. Frequency of data collection
Annual and quarterly.
18.3. Data collection
The statistics based on data from adminstrative registers are supplied to Eurostat via Edamis portal (CSV/SDMX format).
Institutions responsible in the production of the EIL statistics marked in brackets
- Y1, Refused entry at the external border (Finnish Border Guard)
- Y2, Found to be illegally present, (see annex for detailed metadata) (National Bureau of Investigation (Police)
- Y5.1-Y5.2, Ordered to leave (Finnish Immigration Service)
- Y6.1-Y6.2, Returned following an order to leave. (Finnish Immigration Service)
18.4. Data validation
In addition to data quality operations performed during national statistics production Eurostat validitation checks applies when the statistics are delivered to Eurostat database:
"Data are validated through all processing steps, combining manual/visual validation with some tools integrated within the templates and the production environment. For example: checks of totals consistency; checks of magnitude of changes over time; using visual validation (visual verification of the tables or the graph resulted); checking the data integrity over each processing step; using special programs/software for data validation; checking if the double counting cases are excluded; checking the consistency between datasets; Checking the consistency between “TCN-s subjects to an obligation to leave” and “TCN-s who actually left the territory”.; checking the consistency between “TCN-s who returned to a Third Country” and “TCN-s who actually left the territory”.
Member States shall apply the validation checks of the permit statistics before providing data to Eurostat. The statistical process is different in each country. Therefore, each country shall develop its own data validation system, depending on the national infrastructure.
From 2015 a new validation system was designed for better data quality assurance. The same validation rules and validation tool applied at Eurostat level can be accessed by data providers for validating the data before data transmission)."
18.5. Data compilation
Not applicable.
18.5.1. Imputation - rate
Not applicable.
18.6. Adjustment
Not applicable.
18.6.1. Seasonal adjustment
No statistical technique applied.
No comment.
Enforcement of immigration legislation data (EIL statistics) contain statistical information based on Article 5 and 7 of the Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 as amended by the Regulation (EU) 2020/851 with reference to third-country nationals:
- Refused entry at the external border
- Found to be illegally present
- Ordered to leave
- Returned following an order to leave.
Annexes:
Metadata annex for statistics "EIL found to be illegally present"
2 December 2025
See table 3.4. in annex ‘Quality report tables EIL 2024’.
Number of persons.
See table 3.6. in annex ‘Quality report tables EIL 2024’.
Finland.
Calendar quarter and calendar year.
Statistics are produced using data from administrative registers. Data accuracy can be assessed as high.
Number of persons.
Not applicable.
See table 18.1. in annex ‘Quality report tables EIL 2024’.
Annual and quarterly data.
Not applicable.
Not applicable.
See table 15.2. in annex ‘Quality report tables EIL 2024’.
