1.1. Contact organisation
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
6 November 2024
2.2. Metadata last posted
31 January 2025
2.3. Metadata last update
31 January 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.
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
Person.
3.6. Statistical population
See table 3.6. in annex ‘Quality report tables EIL 2024’.
3.7. Reference area
Norway.
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
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.
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.
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 Administration 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 producers of official statistics ensures the implementation of the current ESS legal and conceptual framework for confidentiality.
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 statistical production.
8.1. Release calendar
Statistics should be released and published without delay and according to the release/publication calendar on the UDI website.
8.2. Release calendar access
Please find more information about Relesae calendar on this public website (Publiseringskalender statistikk 2025 - UDI).
8.3. Release policy - user access
Statistics is published according to the release calendar. No briefs are given in advance to any actor (press or public decision makers). Occasionally a press conference might take place at the time of release.
Depending on statistical domain. Frequency varies between weekly, monthly, and yearly disseminations.
10.1. Dissemination format - News release
No press release in 2024.
10.2. Dissemination format - Publications
No puplications in 2024.
10.3. Dissemination format - online database
Not applicable.
10.3.1. Data tables - consultations
Not applicable.
10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access
Micro-data for research can be released after passing an access to data procedure.
Procedure document (only in Norwegian) in Søknad om utlevering av taushetsbelagte personopplysninger til forskning - UDI.
10.5. Dissemination format - other
Not applicable.
10.5.1. Metadata - consultations
Not applicable.
10.6. Documentation on methodology
Documentation on the application of the UN's Generic Statistical Business Process Model (GSBPM) is under development.
10.6.1. Metadata completeness - rate
Not applicable.
10.7. Quality management - documentation
See 11. Quality management.
11.1. Quality assurance
The quality requirements for official statistics are described in Section 5 of the Statistics Act and the European Statistics Code of Practice (Eurostat, 2017).
For the statistical year of 2024:
- Publications on the quality of official statistics – SSB;
- Report on the quality of official statistics, 2024 – SSB.
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 Authorities (ONA) producing official statistics. The Directorate of Immigration is one of these ONA. This includes regular meetings, trainings, and peer reviews.
11.2. Quality management - assessment
Under development.
12.1. Relevance - User Needs
Based on Eurostat's relevance of user needs, no further analyses at national level.
12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction
Not applicable.
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
Overall high accuracy.
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 registered any measurement errors.
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 any known processing errors to report.
13.3.5. Model assumption error
Not applicable.
14.1. Timeliness
Data is loaded into the data warehouse every morning and used for operational management. Some late registrations on returns might appear but not so late that it influence The EIL data collection.
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
No existing problems of comparability between regions and municipalities of Norway.
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
There may be differences between quarterly and annual statistics due to subsequent entries and adjustments. Single person reporting is a potential problem when periods overlapping.
15.3.2. Coherence - National Accounts
Not applicable.
15.4. Coherence - internal
Statistics data are consistent.
Currently no data or estimates availabel on cost and burden.
17.1. Data revision - policy
According to Eurostat revision policy.
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
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 continuously 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 monitered and validated.
18.5. Data compilation
All relevant data originates operational data. All operational are connected with unique keys on procedure and person.
18.5.1. Imputation - rate
Not applicable.
18.6. Adjustment
No adjustments applied.
18.6.1. Seasonal adjustment
No statistical technique applied.
No comments.
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.
31 January 2025
See table 3.4. in annex ‘Quality report tables EIL 2024’.
Person.
See table 3.6. in annex ‘Quality report tables EIL 2024’.
Norway.
Calendar quarter and calendar year.
Overall high accuracy.
Number of persons.
All relevant data originates operational data. All operational are connected with unique keys on procedure and person.
See table 18.1. in annex ‘Quality report tables EIL 2024’.
Depending on statistical domain. Frequency varies between weekly, monthly, and yearly disseminations.
Data is loaded into the data warehouse every morning and used for operational management. Some late registrations on returns might appear but not so late that it influence The EIL data collection.
No existing problems of comparability between regions and municipalities of Norway.
See table 15.2. in annex ‘Quality report tables EIL 2024’.
