Table 4 Immigrations by reason for immigration, year of immigration and immigrants still resident on 1 January 2011. 1990-2010. Absolute figures and per cent (Corrected 7 October 2011)

4 Immigrations¹ by reason for immigration, year of immigration and immigrants still resident on 1 January 2011. 1990-2010. Absolute figures and per cent (Corrected 7 October 2011)
Year of immigration	Total	Still resident 1 January 2011

		Total	Reason for immigration
		Total	Labour	Family	Refugee	Training	Other	Unknown reason for immigration²

1990-2010	470 638	353 267	94 914	145 897	87 388	20 764	1 239	3 065
1990	11 055	6 460	279	3 060	2 829	222	70	-
1991	11 089	6 279	223	2 771	2 985	253	47	-
1992	12 234	7 285	242	3 270	3 518	221	34	-
1993	16 773	10 600	198	3 109	7 039	237	17	-
1994	11 348	7 073	343	2 861	3 614	227	28	-
1995	10 222	6 257	424	3 009	2 549	241	34	-
1996	9 675	5 513	467	3 103	1 587	313	43	-
1997	11 541	6 933	644	4 077	1 816	345	51	-
1998	14 359	8 843	902	4 815	2 706	376	44	-
1999	22 237	13 266	773	5 590	6 394	463	46	-
2000	18 964	12 902	889	5 852	5 532	582	47	-
2001	17 365	12 217	1 120	6 427	3 968	662	40	-
2002	22 673	16 884	1 369	10 458	4 183	806	68	-
2003	19 795	15 050	1 271	7 579	5 306	840	54	-
2004	21 218	15 929	2 456	7 543	4 924	940	66	-
2005	23 910	18 093	4 416	8 693	3 782	1 144	58	-
2006	29 504	22 099	8 393	9 426	3 062	1 137	81	-
2007	44 253	33 773	15 421	11 802	5 086	1 380	84	-
2008	48 410	38 442	17 228	14 974	4 201	1 937	102	-
2009	43 762	39 880	14 508	12 857	6 141	3 282	105	2 987
2010	50 251	49 489	23 348	14 621	6 166	5 156	120	78
	Immigrants still resident in per cent
1990-2010	100	75.1	72.2	81.2	83.7	41.9	59.5	91.8
1990	100	58.4	27.2	67.0	66.1	22.8	33.7	-
1991	100	56.6	21.2	63.1	66.2	23.9	56.0	-
1992	100	59.5	21.0	66.8	70.4	19.4	66.7	-
1993	100	63.2	17.4	65.2	73.2	19.6	39.5	-
1994	100	62.3	28.2	67.4	78.6	18.5	40.0	-
1995	100	61.2	29.7	69.4	82.6	18.6	43.0	-
1996	100	57.0	31.4	67.1	79.8	21.1	45.7	-
1997	100	60.1	34.7	69.5	85.1	21.9	49.0	-
1998	100	61.6	36.0	71.0	86.3	20.5	42.7	-
1999	100	59.7	37.2	74.8	60.1	23.7	47.4	-
2000	100	68.0	44.5	76.9	77.4	27.3	54.7	-
2001	100	70.4	47.1	76.6	92.9	29.6	41.2	-
2002	100	74.5	50.6	81.5	93.1	31.9	61.8	-
2003	100	76.0	53.4	82.2	96.3	32.2	62.1	-
2004	100	75.1	60.4	81.7	97.1	34.1	68.8	-
2005	100	75.7	68.6	83.4	96.5	37.7	59.8	-
2006	100	74.9	71.3	83.8	97.8	35.1	77.9	-
2007	100	76.3	72.1	86.3	97.4	35.6	77.8	-
2008	100	79.4	74.2	89.3	98.3	47.8	85.7	-
2009	100	91.1	87.9	94.0	99.4	80.4	86.8	93.6
2010	100	98.5	98.2	99.0	99.9	97.8	97.6	52.3

¹	First time immigrations by immigrants (born abroad to foreign-born parents) with non-Nordic citizenship.
²	Unknown reason for immigration is a result of the new registration rule for EU/EEA/EFTA nationals. For more information about right of residence in Norway for EU/EEA/EFTA nationals: http://www.udi.no/

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