Statistics on population with
refugee background in
Norway
Minja Tea Dzamarija
Statistics Norway
Population with refugee backround
Statistics Norway (SN)
• Statistics on reasons for immigration to Norway
• Statistics on persons with refugee bacground
The Norwegian Directorate of Immigration
(DI)
• Statistics on the number of asylum applications
• Reception of UN convention refugees
• Asylum decisions
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Data sources
• The Central population Register (CPR)
• The Aliens register (ID)
The CPR
• Electronic copies to BeReg
• The PIN
• Variables
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Sex and marital status
Country of birth
First date of stay in Norway
First registered citizenship
Registration status
Adress data /municipality
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Data sources – the CPR
BeReg: Extracting data
for statistics and constructing
new variables by combinations
of existing from the CPR:
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Year of birth, age(the PIN)
Duration of stay (first date of stay)
Immigration age (PIN+ first date of stay)
Immigrant category and country
of background (own, parents and
grandparents country of birth).
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Data sources – the Aliens Register in
DI
The Directorate of Immigration (DI):
- Produce the offical statistics.
- Supplies the CPR (and indirectly SN) with information about
country of birth, citizenship etc.
- Supplies SN directly with information about «reason for
decision» (reason for the first immigration)
- A memorandum of understanding
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The Aliens Register in DI
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The annual statistics in SN
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The annual statistics on persons with
refugee background
SN’s official statistics on reasons for immigration, five main
values:
• LABOUR
• FAMILY
• REFUGE
• EDUCATION
• OTHER IMMIGRATION
REFUGE:
• ASYLUM (granted asylum + humanitarian grounds)
• RESETTLEMENT REFUGEES
• COLLECTIVE PROTECTION
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The annual statistics- reason for
immigration
Immigrations#1 by reason for immigration, year of immigration and citizenship. 1990-2014
Year of
immigration
Total, 1990-2014
$Total
Labour
Family
Refuge
Education
Other
688 229
230 159
250 048
131 949
71 828
3 514
1990
11 055
1 027
4 567
4 278
975
208
1991
11 089
1 050
4 389
4 509
1 057
84
1992
12 236
1 152
4 896
4 997
1 139
51
1993
16 775
1 140
4 768
9 613
1 210
44
1994
11 348
1 215
4 242
4 596
1 225
70
1995
10 222
1 427
4 335
3 085
1 296
79
1996
9 676
1 487
4 622
1 988
1 485
94
1997
11 545
1 858
5 872
2 137
1 574
104
1998
14 361
2 508
6 780
3 136
1 834
103
1999
22 237
2 076
7 478
10 633
1 953
97
2000
18 967
1 997
7 610
7 143
2 131
86
2001
17 367
2 376
8 387
4 270
2 237
97
2002
22 680
2 706
12 844
4 492
2 526
112
2003
19 812
2 379
9 224
5 512
2 605
92
2004
21 244
4 063
9 241
5 082
2 758
100
2005
23 952
6 433
10 451
3 932
3 034
102
2006
29 598
11 778
11 320
3 153
3 237
110
2007
44 390
21 377
13 761
5 264
3 875
113
2008
48 778
23 249
16 915
4 435
4 057
122
2009
44 605
17 926
15 286
6 410
4 226
135
2010
50 598
23 755
15 001
6 365
5 274
130
2011
54 546
26 729
16 271
5 355
5 817
374
2012
56 749
25 541
18 132
7 188
5 430
458
2013
54 518
23 543
17 444
7 377
5 854
300
2014
49 881
21 367
16 212
6 999
5 019
249
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The annual statistics
SN’s official statistics on persons with refugee background
Persons with refugee background
Reason for immigration –
refuge
Asylum, resetlement,
collective protection
Reason for immigration family immigration to a
«refugee»
Family reunification
Marriage establishment
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The annual statistics- persons with refugee
background
Persons with refugee background , by specified status. 1 January 2015
Persons w ith
Principal applicants
refugee
Country background background
Total
Total
188 130
Total
137 950
Resettlement
Asylum
refugees
91 270
28 036
Collective
protection
and other
protection Unspecified
10 113
8 531
By family connection to principal applicant
Family
Marriage
reunification establishment
and
accompanying
Total
person
Unspecified
50 180
34 622
15 509
49
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The annual statistics on forced
migration groups
Other annual statistics:
• SN’s official annual population statistics on 1 January
• SN’s official annual statistics on Immigrants and Norwegian
born to immigrant parents on 1 January.
Refugees
1 January
Immigrants 1 January
Population 1 January
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