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Statistics on Swedish names by birth country 2020

https://doi.org/10.5878/s91g-y391
This dataset contains statistics on names (first names of women, first names of men, and last names) by country of birth. In total, there are 231,505 names by 202 countries. The data comes from Statistics Sweden's population statistics (name register) and refers to persons registered in Sweden on December 31st, 2020. However, some names are excluded due to confidentiality, such as names with fewer than five carriers. The data is licensed with Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) and may be used as long as Statistics Sweden is stated as the source. In this dataset, you will also find (in addition to the original data from Statistics Sweden) tidied data where the ISO code for each country has been added, as well as data in so-called wide format and long format to facilitate easier data processing. Please see the Swedish version of the post and the README file for more information about the data.
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Data files

  • Statistik över namn efter födelseland 2020.zip
    221.66 MiB

Documentation files

  • README.pdf
    242.43 KiB

Citation and access

Data access level:

Creator/​Principal investigator(s):

Research principal:

Data contains personal data:

No

Citation:

License:

Language:

Method and outcome

Unit of analysis:

Population:

Sverige

Time method:

Sampling procedure:

Time period(s) investigated:

Number of individuals/​objects:

231505

Data format/​data structure:

Data collection Aggregation

Mode of collection:

Aggregation

Data collector:

  • Statistics Sweden

Source of the data:

  • Registers/Records/Accounts
  • Population group

Geographic coverage

Geographic location:

Geographic description:

Sweden's population by birth country.

Lowest geographic unit:

Country

Highest geographic unit:

Country

Administrative information

Responsible department/​unit:

Department of Journalism, Media and Communication

Funding

Funding agency:

  • The Institute for Media Studies

Topic and keywords

CESSDA Topic Classification:

Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2025:

Keywords:

Relations

Related research data:

Publications

Citation:

Dahlgren, P. M. (2021). Svenskar eller utrikesfödda i medierna? – att identifiera födelseland från namn. I: L. Truedsson (red.) Vitt eller brett? – vilka får ta plats i medier och på redaktioner. Stockholm: Institutet för mediestudier.

  • ISBN:

    978-91-987098-0-3

Metadata

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