German Federal Statistical Office develops enhanced method for estimating long-term migration; enables analysis by single citizenships, countries of origin/destination/birth; examines accuracy, limitations of rate-of-stay approach; meets European data requirements.
Further development of method for estimating long-term migration - German Federal Statistical Office Likely publishing date: 2026-04-15
PublicationFurther development of method for estimating long-term migration
Since reporting year 2009, Germany has been providing statistics on immigration and emigration to the European Union annually according to the European definition of migration, which is based on the “usual residence”. As this definition differs from the national definition, official statistics in Germany use a processing and estimation method that has been specially developed to meet European data delivery obligations. The article describes how this method has been developed further to make results available for single citizenships, single countries of origin, single countries of destination and single countries of birth. Further, it presents results on the quality of the estimation, in particular with regard to the accuracy and limitations of the “rate-of-stay” approach used.
Authors: Kai Dreschmitt, Jan Eberle
Article published in “WISTA – Scientific Journal”, 3
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