Income criterion for family reunification for citizens
Quick info | |
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Data type | Numeric |
Scale | Metric |
Value labels | Not applicable |
Technical name | isr_famicit_socben_prevme_s |
Category | Immigrant social rights |
Label | q8a_income |
Related indicators |
It is measured whether citizen or 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 (q8a_income and q8b_income).
Coding rules
Income requirement for family reunification
Citizens or third-country nationals are often asked to fulfil either income and/or funds criteria for family reunification. We operationalise this following an “or” logic. In the (rare) case that both funds and income requirements exist, the higher condition was taken
Question: In the years 2000(2019)-2021, were sponsors who were citizens required to have a specific income per month or fulfil an income criterion/prove the availability of specific financial funds?
Coding Rules [[
Value | Specification |
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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 Missing value for Myanmar 1980-2010
- -997 Index is missing because all underlying variables are also missing
- -998 Missing for other reasons
- -999 Country not in sample in 1980-1999
See the technical report for further information on data collection, coding, filters, the questionnaire, and related procedures: https://media.suub.uni-bremen.de/bitstream/elib/8858/3/WeSIS_Technical_Papers_No%2018%20%281%29.pdf
Bibliographic info
Citation: Henninger, Jakob; Junge, Mara; Römer, Friederike; Bartsch, Samera, 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, doi:10.26092/elib/373.
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