Concept variable

Country background

	Norwegian (bokmål)
Name	Country background
Definition	Country background is the person's own, the mother's or possibly the father's country of birth. Persons without an immigrant background always have Norway as country background. In cases where the parents have different countries of birth the mother's country of birth is chosen. If neither the person nor the parents are born abroad, country background is chosen from the first person born abroad in the order mother's mother, mother's father, father's mother, father's father.
Valid from	2003-01-01
Valid to
Owner	320 - Division for population statistics
Comments	From 1 January 2003 the definition was changed by also including the country of birth of the grandparents.
Statistical unit	Person
Subject	02.01.10 - Population
Reference	http://www.ssb.no/english/subjects/02/02/20/innvutv_en/
Statistics	Immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents
Version	Country background
Classification	Classification of country codes (SSB-3)