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Concept variable

Immigrant category

  Norwegian (bokmål)
Name Immigrant category
Definition This variable shows different combinations of the person's own or the parent's country of birth.
Valid from 1994-01-01
Valid to
Owner 320 - Division for population statistics
 
Statistical unit Person
Subject 02 - Population
Reference http://www.ssb.no/en/befolkning/statistikker/innvbef
 
Classification Classification of immigration categories
Linked to StatBank tables
07114: Utenlandske statsborgere som har fått norsk statsborgerskap, etter tidligere statsborgerskap
07113: Immigrations, by reason for immigration, first citizenship and year of immigration
07111: Immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents, by sex and age. Groups of country background
07110: Immigrants, by country background (world region) and sex (M)
07109: Foreign born, by country background (world region) and sex (M)
05752: Immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents, by five groups of country background. Urban districts of Oslo (UD)
05185: Foreign born, by sex and country background
05184: Immigrants, by sex and country background
05183: Immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents, by sex and country background
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