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About the statistics
Definitions
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Name and topic
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Name: Employee statistics for immigrants
Topic: Labour market and earnings
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Responsible division
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Division for Labour Market Statistics
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Definitions of the main concepts and variables
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Definition of the main concepts
An employee is a person aged 16-74 who performs work for pay or profit in the service of another. To be registered in the The Register of Employees the employment has to endure for at least six days and comprice a minimum of four hours a week. (This is an obliged registration). The date of reference is the end of November in the year of the statistics.
First - generation immigrant : a person born abroad by foreign - born parents.
Definition of the main variables
The age is given in complete years at the end of the year.
The industrial classification is in accordance with the revised Standard Industrial Classification (NOS C182, issued 1994), which is based on the EU-standard of NACE Rev. 1.
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Standard classifications
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Groups of age: 16 - 24 years, 25 - 54 years, 55 - 74 years.
Time of residence in Norway : under 4 years, 4 - 6 years 7 years and more.
Couuntry of birth : The Nordic countries, Western Europe else, Eastern - Europe, Northern - America and Oceania, Asia, Africa and Latin America.
The statistics is now published as Employment among immigrants, register-based.