diff --git a/src/insets/InsetRef.cpp b/src/insets/InsetRef.cpp
index 29a8c52831..496356ab2e 100644
--- a/src/insets/InsetRef.cpp
+++ b/src/insets/InsetRef.cpp
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 #include "Paragraph.h"
 #include "ParIterator.h"
 #include "PDFOptions.h"
+#include "Statistics.h"
 #include "xml.h"
 #include "texstream.h"
 #include "TocBackend.h"
@@ -669,4 +670,13 @@ docstring InsetRef::getTOCString() const
 	return (broken_ ? _("BROKEN: ") : docstring()) + toc_string_;
 }
 
+void InsetRef::updateStatistics(Statistics & stats) const
+{
+	docstring const & ref = getParam("reference");
+	string const & cmd = params().getCmdName();
+	docstring const refstring = displayString(ref, cmd);
+	stats.update(refstring);
+}
+
+
 } // namespace lyx
diff --git a/src/insets/InsetRef.h b/src/insets/InsetRef.h
index 52c8de79e2..423e53adde 100644
--- a/src/insets/InsetRef.h
+++ b/src/insets/InsetRef.h
@@ -75,6 +75,8 @@ public:
 	///
 	void updateBuffer(ParIterator const & it, UpdateType, bool const deleted = false) override;
 	///
+	void updateStatistics(Statistics & stats) const override;
+	///
 	void addToToc(DocIterator const & di, bool output_active,
 				  UpdateType utype, TocBackend & backend) const override;
 	///