1. DGINS Budapest 2017 Statistical session
Manuela Lenk
Head of Registers, Classifications and Geoinformation Department
DGINS Budapest 2017 Statistical session

2. Register-based Labour Market Statistics
What is the Register-based Labour Market Statistics?
Annually, „census-type“ statistics on population, households and families
First reference day: 31 Oct with few topics
Register-based Census on 31 Oct. 2011
Dissemination 19 months after reference day, latest results available as of 31 Oct. 2015

3. Register-based Labour Market Statistics
Legal Basis:
Fiscal Equalisation Act
Federal Statistics Act
Regional Breakdown:
Municipalities
Grid squares

4. Register-based Labour Market Statistics
Topics on Migration:
Country of birth
Country of citizenship
Place of usual residence one year prior to the reference day
Country of residence one year prior to the reference day
Born abroad: Year of arrival in the country (derived topic: length of stay)

5. Register-based Labour Market Statistics
Base Register for Topics on Migration
Central Population Register (CPR)
Additional Registers:
Central Register on Foreign Citizens (incl. asylum seeking persons)
Other administrative data and registers containing information on citizenship and country of birth

6. Post 2021 Census
Challenges for Statistics Austria:
Reference date at the beginning of the year
Timeliness of the results (within one year)

7. Length of Stay of Migrants and Labour Market Status
Definition: Migrants with a length of stay in the country of at least 3 months
Length of stay is derived from the date of arrival in the CPR (no information earlier than 2002)
Topic is defined according to the EU census regulation:
“The year of arrival shall be the calendar year
in which a person most recently established
usual residence in the country.”
Persons born abroad with no recent year of arrival are treated as immigrants before 2002

8. Migration Patterns in Austria
2017: 18.9%
2016: 15.0%
2011: 11.1%
2002: 13.8%
2001: 8.9%
1991: 6.5%
1981: 4.0%
22 per cent of the population in private households have a foreign background (they were born abroad or both parents were born abroad; S: LFS 2016)
54 per cent of the immigrants of 2007 to 2011 left the country within 5 years (S: Migration Statistics 2016)

9. Length of Stay of Migrants and Labour Market Status - Results
Foreign born population by length of stay on reference day in 2015
Total: 1.56 mill. foreign born residents
S: Statistics Austria, Register-based Labour Market Statistics 2013 to 2015.

10. Length of Stay of Migrants and Labour Market Status - Results
Labour market status on 31 October 2015 of immigrants compared to the native born population (aged 15 to 64 years)
Unemploy-
ment Rate
Students
6.1 9%
14.5 5%
Length of stay (foreign born)
15.4
10%
15.7 8%
14.5 5%
14.0 2%
S: Statistics Austria, Register-based Labour Market Statistics 2015.

11. Length of Stay of Migrants and Labour Market Status - Results
Top-10 countries of birth of immigrants with a length of stay on reference day of less than a year
2013
2014
2015
Total
107,838
124,953
153,677
DEU
14,811
ROU
15,344
SYR
18,785
HUN
11,294
14,669
14,408
9,742
11,010
13,592
POL
6,239
SRB
6,276
10,984
5,320
BIH
6,269
AFG
10,419
5,209
5,831
IRQ
7,325
SVK
4,913
5,699
6,412
TUR
4,153
5,061
5,830
RUS
3,180
BGR
4,039
5,263
ITA
2,802
3,486
4,939
S: Statistics Austria, Register-based Labour Market Statistics 2013 to 2015.

12. Length of Stay of Migrants and Labour Market Status - Results
Labour market status of immigrants residing in the country less than 1 year on 31 October 2015 (aged 15 to 64 years)
Students
21%
10%
10%
17%
23%
S: Statistics Austria, Register-based Labour Market Statistics 2015.

13. Length of Stay of Migrants and Labour Market Status - Results
Labour market status of immigrants residing in the country 5 and more years on 31 October 2015 (aged 15 to 64 years)
S: Statistics Austria, Register-based Labour Market Statistics 2015.

14. Please address queries to:
Manuela Lenk
Head of Registers, Classifications and Geoinformation Department
Contact information:
Guglgasse 13, 1110 Vienna
phone: +43 (1)
fax: +43 (1)
DGINS Budapest 2017
Statistical session: “Population Movements and Integration Issues – Migration Statistics”