54 Chapter 3 Figure 3.4: The percentage point change in Central and Eastern European (CEE) labour migration as a percentage of the labour force, from 2005-2016 Source: own elaboration based on EU-LFS data Note: countries displayed in a colour not included in the legend indicate no data available In light of the OECD statistics, Finland and Portugal both appear to underestimate the size of their migrant populations in the EU-LFS. In the project's copy of the EU-LFS, Finland appears to be missing weights for some observations which may explain this gap. For the Netherlands, the large diversion is caused by drops in the migrant population from outside the EU in the EU-LFS. It could be a problem with the survey design in The Netherlands or the OECD may have not correctly estimated the reduction in this particular migration category. The intra-EU indicators follow the same trend as the OECD’s total foreign-born indicator for The Netherlands. Overall, the statistics mostly follow the same trends as the OECD, and they are similar to Eurostat’s own estimations of the foreign-born population. The relationships described above can be clearly seen in Figure 3.5, which provides a graphical comparison between the two figures.
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