Europa sucht seine Wanderungsstatistik: Rückblick und Ausblick

Author(s)

Heinz Faßmann

Abstract

The quality of European’s migration statistic cannot keep up with

the political relevance of this subject. The national definitions are too different

regarding the group of people which are counted as immigrants and

emigrants in a certain time frame. Likewise different are the research methods.

Some states (e.g. Austria) comprise migration by means of registrations

and deregistrations in a register, Great Britain surveys a sample of all

immigrants and emigrants and other states (e.g. Poland and France) only

comprehend the immigration by census or administrative statistics. In 2005

the European Commission suggested the further development of a harmonized

European migration statistic. Since this proposition is dependent on

the willingness to cooperate of the member states, it is a rather difficult undertaking.

This article shows that the search for a European migration statistic

dates back long time ago and that it has been affected by the national peculiarities.

Organisation(s)

Department of Geography and Regional Research

Journal

Austrian Journal of Statistics

Volume

39

Pages

35-47

No. of pages

13

ISSN

1026-597X

Publication date

2010

Peer reviewed

Yes

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

507010 Political geography

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities

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