Immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents
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320 - Division for Population Statistics
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Together with population statistics in other subject areas, the statistics help show the changes taking place that affect the composition of the population.
In 1991 the Ministry of Local Government and Labour (KAD) and Statistics Norway joined forces to prepare statistics on immigrants, giving rise to the Immigrant Statistics Project. Until 1996 the project was headed by a steering committee with participants from KAD, the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration and Statistics Norway.
The statistics have a broad range of users and applications, such as institutes engaged in researching demographics and living conditions, public administration, mass media and private persons.
Covers all persons who neither have parents nor grandparents born in Norway registered as a resident of Norway on 1 January (for who is counted as a resident of Norway, see section 4.1. in About the statistics).
Who is regarded as a resident of Norway and where in Norway a person will 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.
Asylum seekers and persons on short-term stays (less than six months) are not registered as residents in the population register and thus not included in the statistics.
The statistics are based on population register data.
Since 1946 each municipality has had a local population registry that registers all residents in the municipality pursuant to the Population Registration Act and its regulations. The population registries receive reports of births, deaths, marriages, divorces, migration etc. from various sources.
The National Population Register (DSP) was built up from 1964 to 1966 on the basis of the 1960 census, at the same time as the 11-digit national identity number was introduced as identification. The register contained everyone included in the population census and subsequently everyone who has lived in Norway since 1 October 1964. In 1995 the Central Population Register (DSF) at the Directorate of Taxes took over as the official register. The Office of the National Registrar, which administrates the DSF (and former DSP), was transferred in 1991 from Statistics Norway to the Directorate of Taxes.
Updating of the Central Population Register is done in part by the local population registries, which are connected to the DSF via terminals, and in part by the Directorate of Taxes. The basis of the statistics on changes in the population is electronic copies to Statistics Norway of all such register updates.
The reports are also used to update a separate Statistics Norway population database kept for statistical purposes, which forms the basis for the statistics on the composition of and change in the population.
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In addition to the checks made by the DSF, Statistics Norway performs checks for statistical purposes. For more details of our control routines in the various subject areas, see:Dokumentasjon av BESYS-befolkningsstatistikksystemet. Befolkningsendringer i 1998 og befolkningsbasen (BEBAS) 1. januar 2000. Anne Sofie Brørs, Kirsten Dybendal, Aslaug Hurlen Foss og Trude Jakobsen, Notat 2000/24 Statistisk sentralbyrå. (In Norwegian only)
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If a figure in a table consists of three or fewer units and disclosing these units can lead to identification of individuals, the figure is rounded up or the table cell left empty.
Immigrants: These are persons born abroad of two foreign-born parents. Immigrants emigrated to Norway at some point.
Norwegian-born to immigrant parents: are persons who are born in Norway of two parents born abroad, and in addition have four grandparents born abroad.
Country of birth is mainly the mother's place of residence at the time of the birth of the child.
Country background is the person's own, their mother's or possibly their father's country of birth. Persons without an immigrant background only have Norway (000) as their country background. When both parents are born abroad they are in most cases born in the same country. In cases where the parents have different countries of birth, the mother's country of birth is chosen.
Age is current age.
Citizenship is current citizenship.
Period of residence shows period of residence in whole years as of the date on the file.
Statistics Norway's use of terms in immigrant-related statistics are from the statistical standard for classification of persons by immigration background
The statistical standard for classification of persons by immigration background contains the following classification categories:
Born in Norway to Norwegian-born parents
Immigrants
Norwegian-born to immigrant parents
Foreign-born with one Norwegian-born parent
Norwegian-born with one foreign-born parent
Foreign-born to Norwegian-born parents ( included intercountry adoptions)
Country groupings:The standard for classification of countries and citizenships in population statistics
Some errors made during the collecting and processing of the data are unavoidable and include coding, revision and data processing errors etc. Extensive efforts have been made to minimize these errors, and we regard these types of errors to be relatively insignificant.
Unauthorized foreigners are not included in the statistics. The expected total irregular residents population with non-EU origins is estimated to be 18 200 by 1.1.2006. The estimate has been given with an inssecurity, read more in Developing methods for determining the number of unauthorized foreigners in Norway
None because total figures rather than sample material is used.
The quality of the basic data from the Central Population Register is generally very good for statistical purposes. Two drawbacks are nevertheless late or missing notifications and registration of residence.
Some persons neglect to register emigration and it results in missing notifications. Late notifications cause events to be recorded and counted during the wrong calendar year. This is less problematic when the numbers are added up for several years.
Comparability is generally good.
There have not been any changes in definitions or terms in 1995-2000. After 2000, the statistical standard for classification of persons by immigration background has been revised twice, a first time in 2001, and last time in 2008.
Following a consultation round on the term "second-generation immigrant" Statistics Norway has decided to replace "second-generation immigrant" with "person born in Norway of two foreign-born parents". This term has been used in statiscs in the period from 1 January 2001 to 1 January 2008.
After a new revision in 2008, the following changes are made:
•The term "First-generation immigrants" has been replaced by "Immigants"
•The term "Persons born in Norway of two foregin-born parents" has been replaced by "Norwegian-born to immigrant parents".
•The "immigrant population" as a collective term for immigrants and their Norwegian-born children is not longer in use.
Time:The figures are comparable from 1995, the first year the statistics were released.
Place:Statistics provide figures for each municipality. Because the immigrant population is small, the figures are somewhat less suited than other numbers, such as all residents, to analysis at the smallest geographical level. In many municipalities, particularly the small ones, immigrant population figures can vary considerably from year to year, often because of the location of the reception centres for asylum seekers.
Statistics on the immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents are statistics that show population numbers. The area is clearly connected with migration statistics. Immigration and emigration numbers can be found in the migration statistics for each calendar year.
The quarterly migration statistics should also be mentioned. These numbers are provisional, but provide a picture of the changes taking place.
Some immigrants come to Norway as refugees. A special area of statistics provides numbers just for persons with refugee background on 1 January of a certain year.
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The statistics are published electronically (text, tables and figures) via Today's Statistics on Statistics Norway's website. Selected results are also published in Statistical Yearbook of Norway
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