Migration Chain: Monthly Departure Statistics from the Netherlands

Monthly published data on alien departures from the Netherlands, rounded to dozens and with numbers below five suppressed. The dataset is produced by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations and is updated monthly for the current year, with historical files remaining available. It serves as a reference framework for migration statistics, with totals provided to avoid double-counting from detailed breakdowns.

Use Cases

• Tracking monthly and annual migration outflow trends based on the reported totals.
• Analyzing potential deviations in aggregated data due to rounding rules for nationality details.
• Monitoring corrections and updates in migration statistics as new monthly files are published.

Strengths

• Data is published monthly, providing regular updates.
• Includes main totals to correct for deviations caused by rounding detailed numbers.
• Released under a CC0-1.0 license, allowing for unrestricted reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Numbers are rounded to dozens and values less than five are not shown, reducing granularity.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties (Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations)

Collection Method

Likely contains administrative records from the 'Reportation of Aliens Chain' (until 2020) and 'State of Migration' (from 2020).

Time Range

Covers the current year monthly, with previous years' data available.

Freshness

Updated monthly; last update date is unknown.

Geography

Netherlands