Europa sucht seine Wanderungsstatistik: Rückblick und Ausblick

Autor(en)

Heinz Faßmann

Abstrakt

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(en)

Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung

Journal

Austrian Journal of Statistics

Band

39

Seiten

35-47

Anzahl der Seiten

13

ISSN

1026-597X

Publikationsdatum

2010

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

507010 Politische Geographie

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 10 – Weniger Ungleichheiten

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