Compendium of Data Sources on EU Citizens Residing/Working in Other EU Member States
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Compendium of data sources on EU citizens residing/working in other EU Member States Prepared under Contract No VC/2013/0301 November 2015 Written by Elena Fries-Tersch and Valentina Mabilia October 2015 Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion Network Statistics FMSSFE (Contract No VC/2013/0301 ‘Network of Experts on intra-EU mobility –Lot 2: Statistics and compilation of national data’) 2015 EUROPEAN COMMISSION Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion Directorate B — Employment and Social Legislation, Social Dialogue Unit B.4 — Free Movement of Workers and Coordination of Social Security Schemes European Commission B-1049 Brussels Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion Network Statistics FMSSFE (Contract No VC/2013/0301 ‘Network of Experts on intra-EU mobility –Lot 2: Statistics and compilation of national data’) 2015 Compendium of data sources on EU citizens residing/working in other EU Member States Prepared under Contract No VC/2013/0301 November 2015 Network Statistics FMSSFE This report has been prepared in the framework of Contract No VC/2013/0301 ‘Network of Experts on intra- EU mobility – social security coordination and free movement of workers / Lot 2: Statistics and compilation of national data’. This contract was awarded to Network Statistics FMSSFE, an independent research network composed of expert teams from HIVA (KU Leuven), Milieu Ltd, IRIS (UGent), Szeged University and Eftheia. Network Statistics FMSSFE is coordinated by HIVA. Authors: Elena Fries Tersch, Social Researcher, Milieu Ltd. Valentina Mabilia, Policy Researcher, Milieu Ltd. Peer reviewers: Prof Dr József Pacolet, Head of the research group “Welfare State”, Research Institute for Work and Society (HIVA), Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven). Frederic De Wispelaere, Senior research associate, HIVA, KU Leuven. On the European Commission side, the project was supervised by Andrea Pontiroli, with valuable input and comments from Filip Tanay, Michal Gondek, Lambert Kleinmann, Gillian More, Balazs Palvolgyi, Francisco Perez Flores (Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion), and Laurent Aujean, Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs. 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Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion other EU Member States Table of Contents Introduction ...................................................................................................... 7 Existing data sources at EU level ......................................................................... 7 Summary of the results of the data collection exercise (results until October 2015) ..14 REPLIES BY THE MEMBER STATES TO THE QUESTIONNAIRE ..................................16 Belgium ........................................................................................................ 17 Bulgaria ........................................................................................................ 24 Czech Republic .............................................................................................. 28 Denmark ...................................................................................................... 36 Germany ...................................................................................................... 45 Estonia ......................................................................................................... 63 Greece ......................................................................................................... 69 Spain ........................................................................................................... 75 France ........................................................................................................ 120 Croatia ....................................................................................................... 124 Italy ........................................................................................................... 134 Cyprus ....................................................................................................... 142 Latvia ......................................................................................................... 151 Lithuania .................................................................................................... 161 Hungary ..................................................................................................... 176 Malta .......................................................................................................... 190 The Netherlands .......................................................................................... 203 Austria ....................................................................................................... 205 Poland ........................................................................................................ 209 Portugal ...................................................................................................... 228 Romania ..................................................................................................... 242 Slovenia ..................................................................................................... 267 Slovakia ..................................................................................................... 274 Finland ....................................................................................................... 285 Sweden ...................................................................................................... 293 United Kingdom ........................................................................................... 305 Norway ....................................................................................................... 312 Annex 1: Questionnaire on data sources ............................................................ 324 Annex 2: Additional documents and data (available upon request) ........................ 332 November 2015 6 Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion other EU Member States Introduction In 2005-08, a data collection on EU nationals residing/working in other Member States had been launched within the framework of the Technical Committee on free movement of workers. One of the main purposes of collecting these data was to gain more information on (labour) mobility flows between EU Member States, in addition to existing data sources such as official population and migration statistics or the Labour Force Survey. Due to the non-comparability of the data collected across countries, the Technical Committee discussed alternative proposals and agreed in 2010 to discontinue the data collection on work or residence permits, and to collect instead information on sources available in their country on workers from other Member States (rather than to collect data as such). A first Compendium of those national data sources was transmitted to the Members of the Technical Committee in 2013. In order to improve the process and to update the Compendium, an adapted questionnaire was sent to the Members of the Technical Committee in March 2014. 26 EU-EEA countries replied to this questionnaire by October 2014. In August 2015, the Members of the Technical Committee were asked to provide any updates to the information in the Compendium. Such updates have been received from 13 Member States by November 2015. This 2015 Compendium of data sources is therefore an update of the version from 2014, which compiles detailed information on the national data sources on stocks and flows of EU and EFTA foreign citizens and/or workers (including information on number of employed, jobseekers and other characteristics, for example, education). The aim of the Compendium is to disseminate across the Members a more complete picture of the data sources existing about EU citizens residing/working abroad. Existing data sources at EU level As an additional source of information (to national replies presented later), this first section summarises the existing EU-wide data sources on intra-EU mobility of EU citizens/workers. It also provides a list of publications and studies on the subject. Due to the success of free movement of workers from a legal point of view, it has become more difficult than before to monitor the number of EU citizens residing in other Member States and the in/outflows. Indeed, as no residence/work permits are needed any more, the possibility to gather statistics on EU mobile citizens is automatically more limited, contrary to third-country nationals for which the availability of statistics is more developed. Eurostat population statistics The first EU-wide data source that should be mentioned is the Eurostat migration statistics. The EU and its Member States have made great efforts recently to improve the quality and comparability of