Thursday, 13 November 2025

11:00 - 12:00 (CET) 

Location:

Meeting Room 4, 4th floor, PSK, Georg Coch Platz 2, 1010 Vienna.

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Migration Survey 2025: Implementation, Experiences and Findings on Migration and Integration in Austria

Jonas Kolb,
Statistik Austria

Abstract:

Migration and integration cannot be deduced solely from register data or administrative data, but are also an expression of subjective assessments and perspectives. The migration survey is a sample survey conducted annually by Statistics Austria, focusing on various dimensions of migration and integration. The presentation will first provide insights into the design of the survey, the multilingual questionnaire, the composition of the sample, the correspondence and the use of incentives. The second part will present the special features of the survey related to the hard-to-reach target group. In this context, the presentation will focus in particular on the challenges posed by a multilingual questionnaire and response rates. Subsequently, selected findings will be presented using examples that provide insights into the subjective dimension of migration and integration. Finally, the possibility for interested researchers to use the migration survey data set for scientific purposes will be explained.

About the presenter:

Jonas Kolb works in the division Demography and Health in the Directorate Social Statistics at Statistics Austria, focusing on migration and integration issues. He studied political science and sociology in Berlin, Ljubljana and Vienna and earned his doctorate degree at the Goethe University Frankfurt/Main. Between 2012 and 2023, he worked at the Universities of Vienna and Innsbruck. His research focuses on migration, integration, education, religion, religious education and Muslims in Austria. In 2023, Jonas Kolb completed his habilitation at the University of Innsbruck with a cumulative thesis on Muslim life and religious education in contemporary societ

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