Using EU Indicators of Immigrant Integration - European ...

Foreigner: (non-nationals) A person who are not citizens of the country in which they reside, includingpersons of unknown citizenship and stateless persons.Health status: The share of population perceiving their health status as good or poor.Highest educational attainment: The level of education is defined in accordance with the 1997International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED 1997) and is often aggregated into threelevels. Low: below the second cycle of secondary education (up to ISCED level 3c short). Medium:second cycle of secondary education (ISCED levels 3–4 other than 3c short). High: tertiary education(ISCED levels 5–6).Immigrant (or ethnic) penalty: The disadvantage of an immigrant or ethnic groups that can be exclusivelyattributed to the immigrant status rather than any other characteristics.Immigrant: See foreign background. In the EU context, a person undertaking immigration. Generalterm that includes persons with a foreign background (at least one parent born outside the countryof residence).Long-term residence: The share of immigrants holding permanent or long-term residence permits.Low-achieving 15-year-olds in reading, mathematics and science: The number of influence whoproficient below Level 2 of the assessment. PISA covers influence who are aged between 15 years3 months and 16 years 2 months at the time of assessment and who have completed at least 6 yearsof formal schooling, regardless of the type of institution in which they are enrolled and of whetherthey are in full-time or part-time education, of whether they attend academic or vocational programmes,and of whether they attend public or private schools or foreign schools within the country.Median net income: Income from work, comprising employee income and self-employment income;(b) property income, including interest, dividends, profits from capital investment in an unincorporatedbusiness; (c) income from rental of a property or land; (d) pensions from individual private plans;(e) income from social benefits, taking into account unemployment benefits, old-age benefits, survivorbenefits, sickness and disability benefits, education-related allowances, family- or child-relatedbenefits, social exclusion allowances and housing allowances; and (f) regular inter-household cashtransfers received.Migrant integration: A dynamic, two-way process of mutual accommodation by all immigrants andresidents of Member States’. The integration process involves immigrants, who exercise their rights andresponsibilities in relation to their new country of residence, and the receiving society, which should createthe opportunities for immigrants’ full economic, social, cultural, and political participation. Migrantintegration can be measured by the long-term convergence across a wide range of common socialindicators taking into account different background characteristics.Naturalisation rate: The share of immigrants that have acquired citizenship. This can be measuredin annual naturalisations rates or as the rate of naturalised immigrants as a share of all immigrantsliving in the country.Naturalisation: Any mode of acquisition after birth of a nationality not previously held by the targetperson that requires an application by this person or his/her legal agent as well as an act of grantingnationality by a public authority.Non-EU immigrant: Any person not having the nationality of an EU Member State or a person thatwas born outside the EU.Non-EU national: Third-country nationals, persons who are usually resident in the EU-27 and who donot have the citizenship of an EU-27 Member State.Non-national EU citizens: Persons who have citizenship of an EU-27 Member State and who are usuallyresident in another EU-27 Member State.71