Annually
The nation and county
320 - Division for Population Statistics
Statistics Act of 16 June 1989 no. 54, Section 3-2.
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The statistics shall, among other subjects, help show changes that take place and thus affect the composition of the population.
The statistics are compiled to distinguish persons with a refugee background from other immigrants, and were published for the first time in 1999 as Dagens statistikk (Daily Statistics), Refugees 1 January 1998. It is not meant to replace the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration's statistics on decisions and legal grounds. The figures are not necessarily in agreement with the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration's statistics on decisions and legal grounds.
Research institutes, public administration, the media and private persons
Residents of Norway at 1 January this year, who at one time arrived in Norway as refugees (including families), without regard to whether the person has refugee status under the Geneva Convention. Children born to refugees after their arrival in Norway are not counted
The data are based on linkage between the data from Norwegian Directorate og Immigration's database "Utlendingsbase" (UDB) and the data from Statistics Norway's population system. UDB is a database for all cases regarding applications about visits and stays in Norway included those who stay in reception centres for asylum seekers.
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Resident: Who is regarded as a resident of Norway and where in Norway a person shall be counted as a resident, is stipulated in the Population Registration Act of 16 January 1970. The regulations to the act were last amended effective 1 October 1998.
Residence period: Shows residence period in whole years as of the date of the file.
National background: Own, or mother's, or father's foreign country of birth. Immigrant category A has only 000 (Norway) as a national background.
Simplified reason for immigration: Variable based on data from the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration, in which escape has been given as a reason for the application for asylum
Citizenship is the refugee's citizenship as of date.
Some errors in connection with collecting and processing data are unavoidable and may include coding, revision and data processing errors.
None because total figures rather than sample material is used.
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Time: The figures are comparable from 1998, the first year the statistics were published.
Place: Because the population is small, the figures are little suited to analysis at the smallest geographical level. In many municipalities, particularly the small ones, the figures from year to year can vary considerably, often because of the location of the reception centres for asylum seekers.
Figures at the municipal level have to be specially ordered and meet privacy protection requirements.
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Persons with refugees background
Data files at the individual level that are processed and stored long-term.
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