Persons with refugee background

Resident

Who is regarded as a resident of Norway and where in Norway a person shall be counted as a resident, is stipulated in the Population Registration Act of 16 January 1970. The regulations to the act were last amended effective 1 October 1998.

Duration of residence

Shows residence period in whole years as of the date of the file.

National background

Own, or mother's, or father's foreign country of birth. Immigrant category A has only 000 (Norway) as a national background.

Age

Current age.

Citizenship

Current citizenship.

Persons with refugee background

Refers to people with refugee as reason for immigration, as well as immigrants with family as reason for immigration who are reunited with a person with reason refugee.

Type of family unification

The variable specifies all family immigrations, distinguishing between reunification, accompanying person and formation/extension data. The classification is mainly based on assessments of dates of immigration and marriage (when relevant) of both the immigrant and the reference person, and on registrations of that variable in the UDB data.

Asylum seekers

Asylum cases or residence on humanitarian grounds.

Resettlement refugees

Refugees who are permitted to come to Norway following an organised selection, normally in conjuction with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). In accordance with a proposal from the government, the parliament sets an annual quota for the number of resettlement refugees to be received by Norway.

"Other refugees"

Eefugees with families from mainly Bosnia and Herzegovina who have been granted a collective assesment.

Simplified reason for immigration

Variable based on data from the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration, in which escape has been given as a reason for the application for asylum.

Statistics Norway's use of terms in immigrant-related statistics are from the statistical standard for classification of persons by immigration background.

Country groupings: The standard for classification of countries and citizenships in population statistics.