Indicator history

It appears that the number of officially recorded incidents is lower than the number of incidents based on unofficial sources:

Looking at official data for 2009 and 2010, the largest share in recorded incidents is held by right wing extremist incidents; racist/xenophobic, anti-Semitic and anti-Islamic incidents recorded account for a considerably smaller proportion (e.g. in 2009, 356 right wing extremist vs. 49 xenophobic/racist, 12 anti-Semitic, zero anti-Islamic incidents). In 2010, a total of 580 right wing extremist, xenophobic, racist, islamophobic, anti-Semitic and other related offences were recorded. An offence can consist of several incidents. 282 offences could be solved (48.6 per cent). Out of 580 offences there were 57.8 per cent right wing extremist, 11 per cent xenophobic/racist, 4.6 per cent anti-Semitic and 1.4 per cent anti-Islamic motivated. The motivation concerning the remaining 25.2 per cent was either unclear or amibiguous.

In contrast to official data collection the NGO ZARA documented 798 racist (incl. religiously motivated) incidents for 2009 and 745 incidents for 2010; the NGO Helping Hands Graz documented 392 incidents in 2009 and 389 incidents in 2010. In 2009, in comparison, the official figure for racist/xenophobic, anti-Islamic and anti-Semitic incidents is 61; after adding right wing extremist incidents and ‘other’ incidents, the total amount is 453 and 580 incidents in 2010.

Sources:

http://www.bmi.gv.at/cms/BMI_Verfassungsschutz/BVT_VSB_2011_online.pdf

http://www.bmi.gv.at/cms/BMI_Verfassungsschutz/BVT_VSB_2010_20100401_Onlinefassung.pdf 

http://www.zara.or.at/_doc/2011/Zara_RassismusReport_2010.pdf

http://www.zara.or.at/_doc/2010/ZARA_RassismusReport2009.pdf

It appears that the number of officially recorded incidents is lower than the number of incidents based on unofficial sources:

Looking at official data for 2009, 2010 and 2012, the largest share in recorded incidents is held by right wing extremist incidents; racist/xenophobic, anti-Semitic and anti-Islamic incidents recorded account for a considerably smaller proportion (e.g. in 2009, 356 right wing extremist vs. 49 xenophobic/racist, 12 anti-Semitic, zero anti-Islamic incidents). In 2010, a total of 580 right wing extremist, xenophobic, racist, islamophobic, anti-Semitic and other related offences were recorded. An offence can consist of several incidents. 282 offences could be solved (48.6 per cent). Out of 580 offences there were 57.8 per cent right wing extremist, 11 per cent xenophobic/racist, 4.6 per cent anti-Semitic and 1.4 per cent anti-Islamic motivated. The motivation concerning the remaining 25.2 per cent was either unclear or amibiguous. In 2011, a total of 479 right wing extremist, xenophobic, racist, islamophobic, anti-Semitic and other related offences were recorded. An offence can consist of several incidents. 241 offences could be solved (50.3 per cent). Out of 479 offences there were 58.9 per cent right wing extremist, 7.7 per cent xenophobic/racist, 3.3 per cent anti-Semitic and 0.9 per cent anti-Islamic motivated. The motivation concerning the remaining 29.2 per cent was either unclear or amibiguous.

In contrast to official data collection, the NGO ZARA documented 798 racist (incl. religiously motivated) incidents for 2009, 745 incidents for 2010 and 706 incidents for 2011; the NGO Helping Hands Graz documented 392 incidents in 2009 and 389 incidents in 2010. In 2009, in comparison, the official figure for racist/xenophobic, anti-Islamic and anti-Semitic incidents is 61; after adding right wing extremist incidents and ‘other’ incidents, the total amount is 453 and 580 incidents in 2010.

Sources:

1. Bundesministerium für Inneres, 2010, Verfassungsschutzbericht 2010, http://www.bmi.gv.at/cms/BMI_Verfassungsschutz/BVT_VSB_2010_20100401_Onlinefassung.pdf, Accessed on 05.11.2012.
2. Bundesministerium für Inneres, 2011, Verfassungsschutzbericht 2011, http://www.bmi.gv.at/cms/BMI_Verfassungsschutz/BVT_VSB_2011_online.pdf, Accessed on 05.11.2012.
3. Bundesministerium für Inneres, 2012, Verfassungsschutzbericht 2012, http://www.bmi.gv.at/cms/BMI_Verfassungsschutz/BVT_VSB_2012_V20120608_online.pdf, Accessed on 05.11.2012.
4. ZARA, 2010, Rassismus Report 2010, http://www.zara.or.at/_doc/2011/Zara_RassismusReport_2010.pdf, Accessed on 05.11.2012.
5. ZARA, 2009, Rassismus Report 2009, http://www.zara.or.at/_doc/2010/ZARA_RassismusReport2009.pdf, Accessed on 05.11.2012.
6. ZARA, 2011, Rassismus Report 2011, http://www.zara.or.at/_wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Zara_RR11_RZ_Web_fin.pdf, Accessed on 05.11.2012.