Income criterion for family reunification for third-country nationals

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Data type Numeric
Scale Metric
Value labels Not applicable
Technical name isr_famitcn_socben_prevme_s
Category Immigrant social rights
Label Income criterion for family reunification for third-country nationals
Related indicators

Measures whether third-country national sponsors had to meet either an income or a funds requirement for family reunification, following an “or” logic. If both requirements existed, the higher threshold was recorded.

Coding rules

Survey Question

q8b_income: In the years [YYYY-YYYY], were sponsors who were third-country nationals required to have a specific income per month or fulfil an income criterion/prove the availability of specific financial funds?

Specification of scores

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Value Specification
0 Status of family reunification migrant does not exist
0.4 Unspecified funds or assistance
0.5 Income higher than minimum wage
0.6 Income equal to minimum wage
0.7 Income higher than social assistance
0.8 Income equal to social assistance
0.9 Specific funds
1 No Requirements

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Missing values

Depending on the cause of the absence of a value, several types of missing values can be differentiated. These are as follows:

  • -991 Don’t know
  • -992 Former communist countries
  • -993 Benefit did not exist (including for citizens)
  • -994 Legal category of migrants did not exist
  • -995 Neither benefit nor legal category of migrants existed
  • -996 Country not in sample for other country-specific reason
  • -997 Index is missing because all underlying variables are also missing
  • -998 Missing for other reasons
  • -999 Country not in sample in 1980-1999

Filter logic

If a type of benefit does not exist:

  • in those years in which a certain benefit does not exist, all items pertaining to that benefit are set to missing (-993).

If a legal category of migrant does not exist:

  • in those years in which there is no legally recognized category of ‘permanent resident’, this is scored as most restrictive (0). This concerns q1b, q2b, q3b_parent, q3b_child, q4b_residence, q4b_other, q5b and q7b.
  • in those years in which there is no legally recognized category of ‘recognized refugee’, this is scored as most restrictive (0). This concerns q1d, q3d_parent, q3d_child, q4d_residence and q4d_other.
  • in those years in which there is no legally recognized category of ‘asylum seeker’, this is scored as most restrictive (0). This concerns q1e, q3e_parent, q3e_child, q4e and q6.
  • in those years in which there is no legally recognized category of ‘family reunification migrant’ with a citizen sponsor, this is scored as most restrictive (0). This concerns q8a_welfare and q8a_income.
  • in those years in which there is no legally recognized category of ‘family reunification migrant’ with a non-citizen sponsor, this is scored as most restrictive (0). This concerns q1f, q8b_welfare and q8b_income.

Exception: In q1[…], q2[…], q3[…], q4[…] and q5[…], if the respective category does not exist and the benefit in question also does not exist, this is scored as missing (-995 [Neither benefit nor legal category of migrants existed]).

For temporary and seasonal labour migrants, if there is no such legally recognized category, this is scored as missing (-994 if the benefit exists, -995 if it does not).

Item specific filter: if q8[a,b]_income indicates that there is an income requirement, q8[a,b]_welfare is scored as 0.5 (unless transfer payments can be used to fulfil the requirement).

Further information

For comprehensive information on the data collection procedures, coding scheme, questionnaire design, filter logic, and related aspects, please consult the Technical Report: 10.26092/elib/3739

Bibliographic info

Citation: Henninger, J., Junge, M., Römer, F., Bartsch, S. (2025). The Immigrant Social Rights Data Set (ImmigSR). Technical Report (2., aktualisierte Ausgabe, Stand: 04.03.2025), SFB 1342 Technical Paper Series/18/2025, Bremen: CRC 1342, 10.26092/elib/3739

Related publications: Römer, F., Henninger, J., & Harris, E. (2024). Social protection for mobile populations? A global perspective on immigrant social rights. Social Policy & Administration, 58(1), 155–174. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12955

Misc

Project manager(s): Dr. Friederike Römer

Data release: 01.06.2025

Revisions:

Sources

Original CRC Data


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