Naturalisations http://www.ssb.no/english/subjects/02/02/statsborger_en/
02/02/Naturalisations http://www.ssb.no/english/subjects/02/02/
Annual
The nation, counties, municipalities.
Division of Population Statistics
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Among other subjects, statistics shall help show the changes taking place that affect the composition of the population.
Statistics on naturalizations have been published every year since 1977.
Institutes engaged in researching demographics and living conditions, the media and private persons.
Statistics for 1999 mainly cover all naturalizations that actually took place in 1999. Naturalisations from previous years are counted in the 1999 figures if the report arrived between 1 March 1999 and 29 February 2000.
In 1985-1998 the statistics covered naturalizations that actually took place during the year in addition to reports from the previous year only, which were registered too late to be included in the statistics.
For 2000 as well as 2001 the statistics include 60 and 50 reports respectively with unknown year for naturalization. Later on it appears that these reports are corrections, and result in the fact that the published figures are higher than the actual figures.
The statistics are based on population register data. The figures from 1995 and later are based on the Central Population Register (DSF) at the Directorate of Taxes, while the figures for 1968-1994 are taken from its predecessor, the National Population Register (DSP). The Office of the National Registrar, which administrates the register, was transferred in 1991 from Statistics Norway to the Directorate of Taxes.
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. Norwegian citizenship is granted by the County Governor or the Directorate of Immigration, and must be reported to the population registry in the municipality of residence. If a person has dual citizenship, the Norwegian citizenship is registered in the DSF with a notation about the other citizenship.
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 the population.
In addition to the checks done by the DSF, Statistics Norway perform checks for statistical purposes. For further details of the checks we do of the various subjects, see Dokumentasjon av BESYS-befolkningsstatistikksystemet. Befolkningsendringer i 1998 og befolkningsbasen (BEBAS) 1. januar 2000, Notater 2000/24 (in Norwegian only)
http://www.ssb.no/emner/02/90/notat_200024/notat_200024.pdf
The unit of analysis is persons.
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 amended effective 1 February 1980.
http://www.ssb.no/emner/02/01/10/folkemengde/ (See section on "Resident" in "About the statistics").
Acquisition of Norwegian nationality:
Pursuant to the Act on Norwegian nationality of 1 September 2006, it is possible to become a Norwegian citizen automatically, by notification or upon application. The main rule on acquisition upon application is that any person has a right to Norwegian nationality if the applicant at the time the administrative decision is made fulfils the following criteria and that the application is not in conflict with the interests of national security or foreign policy:
- has provided documentary evidence of or otherwise clearly established his or her identity
- has reached the age of 12
- is and will remain a resident of the realm
- fulfils the conditions for a settlement permit laid down in section 12 of the Immigration Act
- has spent a total of seven years in the realm in the last ten years, with residence or work permits of at least one year's duration
- satisfies the requirements regarding Norwegian language training
- has not been sentenced to a penalty or special criminal sanction or has observed the waiting period
- satisfies the requirement regarding release from another nationality
Other conditions apply for certain other groups, including:
- persons who arrived in the realm before reaching the age of 18 must have spent a total of five years in the realm.
- persons who are married to Norwegian national and share a residence with his or her spouse. For these persons the period of marriage to a Norwegian national with a shared residence in the realm must add up to a total of at least seven years. The period of residence and the period of marriage to a Norwegian national may be concurrent. In practice, the residence permit provisions require that the applicant has been resident in the realm for the last three years. The same rules apply for registered partners and cohabitants.
- Nordic nationals may be entitled to Norwegian citizenship after having resided in the realm for two years.
- former Norwegian nationals. The applicant must have resided in the realm for the last two years.
- stateless persons must have resided in the realm for the last three years.
- children of persons who are acquiring or has acquired Norwegian nationality must have resided in the realm for the last two years.
A child becomes a Norwegian national at birth if his or her father or mother is a Norwegian national. If the father dies before the child is born, it is sufficient that the father was a Norwegian national when he died.
A child who is adopted by a Norwegian national becomes a Norwegian national by adoption if
Nordic nationals can also become Norwegian nationals upon notification. Among other things, the requirement is that the applicant has been resident in the realm for the last seven years. If the applicant is a former Norwegian national there are no requirements on residence period. The applicant is entitled to recover his or her Norwegian nationality provided that he or she is resident in Norway.
Age is the age at the time of the event
Marital status: After the Act on Registered Partnerships for Homosexual Couples became law on 1 August 1993, the following marital status divisions were effective 1 January 1994: Unmarried (not previously married), married, widow/widower, divorced, separated, registered partner, separated partner, divorced partner and surviving partner. The first five codes applied before 1994.
The standard for country and citizenship is used for the immigration/emigration country and citizenship.
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.
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Comparability is generally good.
Comparability back to 1977 is good. If the statistics are compared at regional levels over time one should be aware of whether there have been mergers, divisions or redrawing of regional borders during the period. This also applies to changes of citizenship codes and emigration and immigration country codes.
Migration statistics giving inter alia migration to/from Norway of foreign citizens in the course of one year can have an effect on the number of Norwegian citizenships awarded seven years later.
http://www.ssb.no/flytting_en/
In the statistics on the population broken down by Norwegian/foreign citizenship on 1 January for two consecutive years, the number of Norwegian/foreign citizens can be seen in connection with the awarding of Norwegian citizenship in the course of the year.
http://www.ssb.no/english/subjects/02/01/
http://www.ssb.no/statsborger_en/
Data files at the individual level that are processed and stored long-term.