1.1. Contact organisation
General Inspectorate for Immigration
1.2. Contact organisation unit
Risk Analisys Department
1.3. Contact name
Confidential because of GDPR
1.4. Contact person function
Confidential because of GDPR
1.5. Contact mail address
15A lt. col. Marinescu Constantin street, district 5, Bucharest
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
3 September 2024
2.2. Metadata last posted
3 September 2024
2.3. Metadata last update
16 May 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
Number of persons.
3.6. Statistical population
See table 3.6. in annex ‘Quality report tables EIL 2024’.
3.7. Reference area
Romania
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
Government Decision 639/2007 on organization structure and attributions of General Inspectorate for Immigration (Official Gazette 426/2007).
6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing
Ministry of Internal Affairs Order no. 10/2017 approving the regulation on organization and functioning of the General Inspectorate for Immigration (Official Gazette 123/2017).
7.1. Confidentiality - policy
Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation).
Regarding the national legislation, we have Law No. 190 of 18 July 2018 on measures for the enforcement of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation)
7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment
The EU data protection rules apply.
8.1. Release calendar
EIL statistics are disseminated only after the Eurostat release calendar.
8.2. Release calendar access
Not applicable, see 8.1.
8.3. Release policy - user access
Not applicable, see 8.1.
Not applicable, see 8.1.
10.1. Dissemination format - News release
EIL statistics are not disseminated in any form besides Eurostat's news release.
10.2. Dissemination format - Publications
EIL statistics are not disseminated in any form besides Eurostat's news release.
10.3. Dissemination format - online database
None besides the EUROSTAT database.
10.3.1. Data tables - consultations
Not applicable.
10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access
Micro-data are not disseminated.
10.5. Dissemination format - other
There are no other dissemination formats by Romania on EIL statistics.
10.5.1. Metadata - consultations
Not applicable.
10.6. Documentation on methodology
Not available.
10.6.1. Metadata completeness - rate
Not applicable.
10.7. Quality management - documentation
Not available.
11.1. Quality assurance
Continous quality assessments of data retrievals by the General Inspectorate for Immigration and their division of ICT (Information- and Communicationtechnology).
11.2. Quality management - assessment
The datasets are of hight quality as it is taken from entries in the Administrative Register, which documents each case in Romania. A PIN allows for the linkage of data within the database. Upon processing of national statistics, general plausibility checks are performed. Some data is also checked at random during the reference year, in order to assess data quality.
12.1. Relevance - User Needs
National level:
The EIL statistics produced are regularly used by national administrations: academic researchers, mass media 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
No information 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
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 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
There are no 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
There are no processing errors.
13.3.5. Model assumption error
Not applicable.
14.1. Timeliness
Data are provided to EUROSTAT according to the calendar.
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
Statistics are comparable between geographical areas within Romania.
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 are no differences in 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 repondents.
17.1. Data revision - policy
No need for regular revisions of data.
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
At the time of processing the individual case.
18.3. Data collection
National systematic process of gathering data for official statistics.
18.4. Data validation
Validity checks include:
- Checks of totals consistency;
- Checks of magnitude of changes over time;
- Checking if the double counting cases are excluded;
- Checking the consistency between Y2 and Y3 datasets;
- Checking the consistency between “TCNs subjects to an obligation to leave”and “TCNs who actually left the territory”;
- Checking the consistency between “TCNs who returned to a Third Country”and “TCNs who actually left the territory”.
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.
Not applicable.
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.
16 May 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’.
Romania
Calendar quarter and calendar year.
Overall high accuracy: The reported statistics measure accurately the target population because the database includes all cases.
Number of persons.
Not applicable.
See table 18.1. in annex ‘Quality report tables EIL 2024’.
Not applicable, see 8.1.
Data are provided to EUROSTAT according to the calendar.
Statistics are comparable between geographical areas within Romania.
See table 15.2. in annex ‘Quality report tables EIL 2024’.
