DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd0369-1-v4
title: Level of living among immigrants, 1996, interview file

description: The dataset is derived from the "Level of living among immigrants 1996" survey, commisioned by the Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion and conducted by Statistics Norway. The purpose of the survey is to map out the important aspects of the living conditions of different immigration groups and their descendants in Norway. A similar surveys was conducted in 1983 (the research foundation FAFO also carried out two relevant surveys in Oslo in 18993 and 1995), but only including immigrants that weren't Norwegian residents and first and second generatopm immigrants with Norwegian citizenship. In the 1996 survey, both foreign citizens and first and second generation immigrants of Norwegian citizenship were included.

The questions included in the survey covers issues such as residence and living conditions, household/family, children, proffession/working conditions, education, bullying/violence, friends/family, leisure activities and membership in different unions and organisations. In order to make it possible to compare the situation for the immigration population with the Norwegian population, a big part of the questionnaire is derived from the Level of Living survey 1995, the Living conditions survey 1995, the Level of Living for long-term unemployed 1991 and the level of living survey for foreign citizens 1983.   

The survey comprises persons with background from former Yugoslavia, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan. Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Somalia and Chile.  

The data from the survey are available on two different files, the interview file (N = 2561) and the household file ( N = 9548). The interview file contains the interview based data for immigrants that weren't interviewed, besides additional register data for the respondents, and in some cases for the persons in the respondents' households. 

This is the interview file. 

Additional variables:
Some variables are derived from the income register. This register is composed by data from several sources: (1) Population statistics in SSB, (2) The Tax Register for Personal Tax Payers, (3) Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund, (4) Norwegian State Housing Bank living support register, (5) Social Aid Register, (6) GR1 (National Insurance Administration), (7) Children benefits (calculated for 1994), (8) Education register, (9) register on End of the Year Certificates (10) Tax Return Register. In addition, two variables are calculated (12) combined income and Disposable income. 

The last letter (or the two last) in the variables on individual level indicates which part of the income register that is used. L- The Tax Register for Personal Tax Payers, U- Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund, H - Norwegian State Housing Bank. S - Social Aid Register, R- National Insurance Administration, B- Children benefits, T- register on End of the Year Certificates , SA- Tax return.

Also, the file contains variables that stems from (a) birth country file (situation pr 1.1.1996), (b) employee/employer register (1st quarter of 1996), (c) SOFA-applicant register(1st quarter 1996), and (d) education register (highest education in population 1.10.1994).