Statistics on Swedish names by birth country 2020

SND-ID: 2021-272-1. Version: 1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5878/s91g-y391

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Statistik över namn efter födelseland 2020.zip (221.66 MB)

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Citation

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Peter M. Dahlgren - University of Gothenburg, Department of Journalism, Media and Communication

Research principal

University of Gothenburg - Department of Journalism, Media and Communication

Description

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.

Data contains personal data

Language

Swedish

Method and outcome

Unit of analysis

Individual

Population

Sverige

Time Method

Cross-section

Sampling procedure

Total universe/Complete enumeration

Time period(s) investigated

2020-12-31 – 2020-12-31

Number of individuals/objects

231505

Data format / data structure

Numeric

Text

Data collection

Mode of collection: Aggregation
Data collector: Statistics Sweden
Source of the data: Registers/Records/Accounts, Population group

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Sweden

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

Research area

Social sciences (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)

Language and linguistics (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Minorities (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Censuses (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Keywords

Countries, Name, First name, Lastname, Given name

Publications

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

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Published: 2021-11-02