Research area Statistical Reports on Migration

Completed research projects

PROMINSTAT - Promoting comparative quantitative research on migration and integration in Europe

The main objective of PROMINSTAT was to promote comparative quantitative research in the field of migration and integration. In the scope of this project, technical information on statistical datasets and national data collection systems in 27 European countries were systematically collected and analysed. In addition, the possibilities for and the limitations on conducting comparative research in a number of different thematic areas were explored.

Publications:
Heckmann, Friedrich; Köhler, Claudia; Peucker, Mario; Reiter, Stefanie: Quantitative Integration Research in Europe - Data Needs and Data Availability. Thematic Study compiled within the framework of the EU project PROMINSTAT. Vienna 2010
Peucker, Mario; Reiter, Stefanie: National Data Collection Systems and Practices. Country Report Germany. Vienna 2009
Project website: PROMINSTAT

Migration Reviews

From 1999 until 2004 the efms has continuously compiled the Migration Review. This report analyses in a compact form the statistical data regarding migration for a particular year. The data are structured according to the extent of inflows and outflows, countries of origin and destination as well as the age and gender structure of the migrants. The Migration Review describes the various types of migration in detail in their magnitudes:

• Internal migration within the EU
• Family reunification
• Inflow of immigrants of German origin ("Aussiedler")
• Jewish immigrants
• Inflows of asylum seekers
• Labour migration
• Foreign students

Furthermore the Migration Review gives an overview of the legal background. The data about migration in Germany are supplemented by a European comparison.

Since 2005 the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees is responsible for the publication of the annual Migration Reviews.

Migration Review 2004 on behalf of the Federal Government

Publication: Migrationsbericht 2004. Bericht des Sachverständigenrats für Zuwanderung und Integration im Auftrag der Bundesregierung. Bundesministerium des Innern (Hrsg.), Stefan Rühl, Edda Currle (Autoren). Berlin 2004

Migration Review 2003 by the Commissioner of the Federal Government for Migration, Refugees and Integration

Publication: Migrationsbericht der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Migration, Flüchtlinge und Integration im Auftrag der Bundesregierung (Migrationsbericht 2003). Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Migration, Flüchtlinge und Integration (Hrsg.), Stefan Rühl, Matthias Neske, Edda Currle (Autoren). Berlin 2004

Migration Review 2001 by the Federal Commissioner for Foreign Affairs on behalf of the Federal Government

Publications:
Migrationsbericht der Ausländerbeauftragten im Auftrag der Bundesregierung (ed.), Stefan Rühl, Harald W.Lederer Lederer (authors). 129 pages (in German) with 39 tables and 46 illustrations.
CD-ROM of the Migration Review 2001. europäisches forum für migrationsstudien (ed.), Harald Lederer; Stefan Rühl (authors). Bamberg 2002 (German / English)

Migration Review 1999. Migration inflows and outflows to and from Germany

Publications:
Migrationsbericht 1999: Zu- und Abwanderung nach und aus Deutschland. Bamberg. Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Ausländerfragen (ed.), Harald W. Lederer, Roland Rau, Stefan Rühl (authors). Berlin 1999, 84 pages (in German) with 30 tables and 45 illustrations.
CD ROM Migrationsbericht 1999. europäisches forum für migrationsstudien (ed.), Harald W. Lederer, Roland Rau, Stefan Rühl (authors). Bamberg 2000, approx. 460 MB (German and English) with 45 tables and 30 illustrations as well as all relevant legal texts, all issues of the migration reports 1994-1999 and the data of the first efms CD.

Data - Facts - Trends

On behalf of the Federal Commissioner for Migration, Refugees and Integration the efms compiles a series of modules on various subjects, which contain statistics and background information on foreigners in Germany.

Modules published on the website of the Commissioner (only available in German language):

Migrationsgeschehen 2004 (Migration 2004)

Strukturdaten der ausländischen Bevölkerung 2004 (Structural data of the foreign population in 2004)

Einbürgerung (Naturalisation), as of 2004

Bildung und Ausbildung (Education and training), as of 2004

Deutschland im europäischen Vergleich (Germany in a European comparison), as of 2004

Migration in Europe - Data and Background

The objective of this project was to compile a compendium of data on the migration situation in ten selected European countries, which includes basic information on migration flows and a critical discussion of methodology and is application-oriented. The resulting handbook includes systematically comparable data on the entry, structure and integration of migrants as well as political, legal and sociological analyses which provide assistance in interpreting the data.

Publication: Forum Migration 8: Migration in Europa. Daten und Hintergründe. Edda Currle (author). Lucius&Lucius Verlag Stuttgart 2004

Comparing national data sources in the field of migration and integration - COMPSTAT

COMPSTAT is a pilot study aimed at gathering, editing and analysing all the information available in eight European countries about data that is collected on a regular basis referring in any way to the integration of migrants and their families.

Publications: Project website

The project provided a critical review of the existing statistics on migration. Migration is a phenomenon which has to be recorded and depicted in the official statistics comprehensively and in all its aspects.

The project developed theoretically sound indicators which allow migration to be measured adequately. The project was not restricted to officially recorded migration processes only, however, but also focuses on non-documented, illegal migration flows which elude statistical registration.

The project presents types of migration and their magnitudes and explains the various dimensions of the integration of migrants. For this purpose available figures and indicators from various sources were examined and analysed. The genesis of the data and the legal basis of the figures were presented and were related to their possible interpretations. A large number of tables and graphs with critical assessments regarding their significance and ways of interpretation are the core of the project.

Publications:
Forum Migration 4: : Migration und Integration in Zahlen. Ein Handbuch. Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Ausländerfragen (ed.), Harald W. Lederer (author). Bonn 1997 (in German).

CD ROM Migration and Integration in Numbers. 1997. europäisches forum für migrationsstudien (ed.), Harald W. Lederer (author). Bamberg 1997 (in German)