Immigration regulation - StatRes (discontinued), 2012

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Annual

No.

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The objective of StatRes is to present statistics on central government input, the results in terms of activities and services, and the outcomes of the input. The purpose of such statistics is to give the general public and the authorities improved knowledge of state-run activities. StatRes is developed upon commission by the Ministry of Government Administration, Reform and Church affairs.

StatRes’ target group are users of statistics with some knowledge of and interest in central government activities who require information on resource use, activities, services and outcomes of state activities. Such users could be the general public, the media, politicians, pupils and students. StatRes shall also provide the authorities with information which supplements other information used in the governing of central government activities.

Not relevant

Input measured in contracted man-years:

Statistics Norway does not publish other particular statistics on employment in the immigration regulation, but the employees are included in Statistics Norway’s general register-based employment statistics where the employees and their contracted working hours are only counted in the enterprise where the employee performs her/his main position. StatRes also includes second jobs, in addition to 1) inclusion of employees more than 74 years old, 2) inclusion of employees on a short-term stay in Norway and 3) subtraction of doctor-certified absence and parental leave.

1.6. Legal authority The Statistics Act §§ 2-2 and 3-2.

No.

The statistics cover the activity in the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration (UDI) and the Norwegian Immigration Appeals Board (UNE), see also section 3.6. The UDI has overall professional responsibility for immigration regulation and coordinates the work undertaken in the field of immigration. The UNE deals with appeals against the UDI’s decisions and acts as an independent administrative body when making decisions in such cases.

This is a relatively narrow delimitation of immigration regulation. The following bodies also have certain dealings with immigration regulation:

• The police districts receive and prepare applications for residence permits, travel documents, permanent residence and citizenship. In some types of cases, the police districts can also grant permits where it is clear that the criteria have been met.
• The International Police Immigration Service (PU) registers asylum seekers and investigates their identity and travel route. The PU is also responsible for the extradition of persons who are not legally domiciled in Norway.
• The foreign service missions receive various types of applications and process the majority of visa applications. The foreign service missions help the UDI to collect and control data and documents in residence and asylum cases.
• The Directorate of Integration and Diversity (IMDi) has overall responsibility for implementing the integration policy, such as the settlement of refugees and the follow-up of the Introduction Act. The most important policy instrument is the subsidies to the local authorities that are responsible for the operational work in settlement etc.
• The Norwegian Directorate for Children, Youth and Family Affairs (Bufetat) is responsible for the settlement and care offer to single, minor asylum seekers under the age of 15. Bufetat works together with the IMDi in the settlement of single, minor asylum seekers who are permitted to stay in Norway.
• The Ministry of Justice and the Police is the superior ministry for the UDI and UNE, and has overall responsibility for the refugee and immigration policy.
• The Ministry of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion is responsible for the Norwegian Nationality Act and the integration policy, and is also the superior ministry for both the IMDi and Bufetat.
• The Ministry of Labour is responsible for labour immigration.

Although these agencies also undertake certain activities within immigration regulation, they are classified as other service groups in StatRes. The input to these agencies within immigration regulation is therefore not included in the figures. Some of the activities carried out by the police are given as related indicators.

Input measured in NOK:

Expenditure figures are based on data reported from UDI og UNE to The Norwegian Government Agency for Financial Management (DFØ) in connection with the preparation of the state accounts (Report no. 3 to the Storting).

Input measured in contracted man-years:

Register-based employment statistics in Statistics Norway are based on individual register data from various registers. Information related to employees and agreed working hours per week is mainly collected from the Nav State Register of Employers and Employees, the End of the Year Certificate Register, the Tax Register (the Directorate of Taxes), and payroll registers. The Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities in Brønnøysund and Statistics Norway’s Central Register of Establishments and Enterprises provide data on industries and sectors for enterprises and underlying establishments. NAV’s register of participants in labour market initiatives, recipients of parental benefits and doctor-certified absence are also included. The employment statistics is therefore based on a number of different sources. Statistics Norway has developed a system for common utilization of these sources. Work is currently underway to ascertain the degree of input using overtime.

Activities and services and results:

Statistics on activities and services are based on individual-based register data from the UDI’s Aliens Register , while statistics on the UNE’s activities and services are taken from registration systems in the UNE.

Unit costs

Statistics on unit costs within the UDI are based on data from the Aliens Register in addition to data from separate time distribution systems, the pay system and the accounting system, ref. section 3.6.

Related indicators

Number returned through Assisted Voluntary Return programme

This figure is provided by the International Organization of Migration, which organises this type of return. The number returned by the police is provided by the International Police Immigration Service.

Number of immigrants to Norway

The figures on total immigration are taken from Statistics Norway’s population statistics, which are based on data from the population register. The specification is based on population register data.

Returns

The figures are reported by the International Police Immigration Service to the UDI.

Number of persons in reception centres on average at month end – reported by the UDI

Number of paid places in reception centres on average at month end – reported by the UDI

Incoming cases to the immigration administration – reported by the UDI

Total number of granted permits in the immigration administration – reported by the UDI

The data basis for the indicators is taken from various external sources, see section 3.2 above. The Norwegian Government Agency for Financial Management sends the accounting data to Statistics Norway electronically in a spreadsheet. Statistics Norway extracts the employment data from various registers. The data on activities and services is reported to Statistics Norway by the UDI and UNE for these statistics.

Definition and classification of the population for each year are controlled against the Central Register of Establishments and Enterprises (VoF), in practice identical with the Brønnøysund Register of Business Enterprises

Input measured in NOK:

Indicators based on accounting data are compared to the corresponding figures in the Central Government's fiscal account and the other transmitted accounts. Wage costs are compared with the contracted man-years and Statistics Norway’s wage statistics. In addition, tests on reasonableness and controls on macro level are performed.

Input measured in contracted man-years:

The three most central registers concerning production of the statistics follow this procedure for control and revision: The Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration conducts an annual control of the NAV State Register of Employers and Employees. Statistics Norway controls that enterprises with more than one establishment have separate numbers for each, and that the employees are registered with the correct establishment. Statistics Norway also controls the NAV State Register of Employers and Employees by comparing it with the End of the Year Certificate Register etc. Some kinds of errors are also corrected directly in the basic data for the employment statistics. Further, the contracted man-years adjusted for long-term leaves are checked against the wage costs mentioned above, in addition to the basic data for the wage statistics from payroll registers.

Activities and services and results :

Processing time UDI: StatRes only measures the processing time for the selected agencies in the population. This means that the processing times that are presented do not include the time from the application is submitted to the police or a foreign service mission until the case is received by the UDI. Figures given in other contexts may calculate the time from the application is submitted to the immigration administration until a the case is registered with the UDII.  

Input measured in NOK

Statistics Norway calculates the input measured in NOK in the same way for all activity areas in StatRes where the accounting data received from the Norwegian Government Agency for Financial Management form the data source. The calculations of expenditure are as follows:

- The sections in the national accounts that correspond to the UDI and UNE are identified.

- The figures that relate to those sections are grouped and summarised based on items and sub-items in accordance with the Ministry of Finance’s circular 101 (R101). The figures are then allocated to the variables that are published within input measured in NOK. See section 4.1 for a more detailed description of these variables.

- Any charges to UDI and UNE in sections other than their own are identified, and the amounts are added to the figures that are listed above.

- Unrecognised pension contributions to cover the pension obligations to the employees are then added to the recognised wage costs. Fifteen per cent of recognised wages excluding employer’s national insurance contributions is used as an estimate for these obligations.

- Wage reimbursements entered as income are reclassified as wage reductions, whereby an amount that corresponds to the reimbursements entered as income is deducted from the recognised wage costs.

Unit costs:

The calculation of unit costs is based on the wage accounts and the individual employee’s registration in the UDI’s time registration system. In the time registration system, the employee’s working hours are linked to various pre-defined activities that are derived from the UDI’s measuring structure. The expenditure for goods and services is linked directly to the various activities based on the purpose of the purchases. When compiling unit costs, the accounting figures are adjusted for maternity and sick pay reimbursements, shared services performed for IMDi, reimbursements from other bodies and country information for other bodies. The operating expenses that form the basis for the calculations of unit costs will therefore deviate from the accounting figures that the UDI reports to the Norwegian Government Agency for Financial Management in connection with Report no. 3 to the Storting (Statsrekneskapen).

Not relevant

The fields of responsibility in the central government are to a large degree characterized by a single enterprise per division of service. It is difficult to shed light on this responsibility without exposing the actual government service. StatRes has divided the responsibilities into 5 main divisions of services, which is too coarse-screened to illuminate the variety in the central government activities. Statistics Norway has considered the confidentiality concerns, and found that the two conditions for exception in the Statistics Act § 2-6 are granted. The conditions are:

1. The consideration of an appropriate structure of the statistics requires publications of a detailed level, including the risk of identification of a statistic unit without suppression.
2. The publication with the risk of identification must not involve injuries (on physical or juridical person).

Consequently, confidentiality regarding central government enterprises is not taken into account in this statistics. Confidentiality is considered only on the subject of clients/users and employees.

This statistics does not cover graded information.

Employment measured in contracted man-years:

The man-year figures include the bodies’ own employees. The degree to which the bodies buy in services or allow their own employees to carry out the work can vary over time and space. This can typically apply to support functions such as cleaning, canteen, kindergarten etc. The accounting figures show both the wage costs relating to own employees and expenditure relating to the purchase of goods and services etc.

Activities and services and results:

Since October 2009, it has no longer been necessary for nationals of EU countries (except Romania and Bulgaria) to apply for permission to stay in Norway for more than three months. The corresponding requirement for nationals of Romania and Bulgaria remained in force until 15 June 2012. This explains the fall in the number of cases from 2008 to 2009 and from 2009 to 2010 for some types of cases, such as cases relating to immigration on the grounds of work, family and studies.

Kroatia became member of the EU 1 July 2013, however not member of the EEA before 1 January 2014.