Population registration in Sweden

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Population registration in Sweden

• Ingegerd Sterbäck
• National Tax Agency
• E-mail ingegerd.sterback_at_skatteverket.se
• www.skatteverket.se

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History
0204 A 02
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Purpose
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Population Registration
an efficient way of supplying the whole community
with basic information on the population
Everyone who is to be entered in the
population register is given a personal identity
number Information comes both from other
authorities and from the people themselves The
population register has many users
0204 A 04
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The Information Is Distributed...
2 million birth certificates and other extracts
from the registers
46 million notifications to

• The tax register
• The Church of Sweden
• Local authorities
• Statistics Sweden, National Social Insurance
  Board, National Police Board, National Land
  Survey, National Road Administration and
  other authorities

250 million notifications via

• SPAR to 300 different companies and
  organizations, e.g. banks and insurance
  companies

0204 A 06
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Personal Identity Number
49 01 22 - 4131
0204 A 07
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Personal identity number

• Taxpurposes, when employed
• Social security number, hospital contacts
• National ID-card, passport, driving license
• Insurance, bank affairs
• In school, certificate

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Population registration legislation

• Population Registration Act (contains rules
  concerning when and where a person should be
  registered, the obligation to report details to
  the population register and the rights to appeal
  against such decisions.)
• Population Register Act (rules about which
  registers can be maintained for population
  registration and what these may contain)
• Name Act, Computer Act, Official Secrecy Act and
  more. ..

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Right of Access Principle

• Purpose
• People should be able to inspect the activities
  of the authorities
• Content
• Public documents available for inspection,
  freedom of information, public right to attend
  court proceedings
• Limitations
• Some interests are of such weight that
• certain information ought not to be available to
  all

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The local population register

• Personal identity number
• Name
• Residence
• Civil status
• Parents, spouse, children, guardian of children
  under the age of 18, adoption
• Place of birth
• Nationality
• Immigration from abroad
• Removal from the population registers (death,
  migration abroad)
• Place of burial

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Volume of population registration buisness each
year
Name 342 000 cases
Marriage 50 000 cases
Migration 964 000 cases
Death 97 000 cases
Birth 99 000 cases
Divorce 29 000 cases
Total 2 000 000 cases
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Notification to the tax office
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Notification of birth
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Dissemnation of information
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New e-servicies 2004-2005

• Extract from the population register on your own
  printer but you need an e-ID to get acces to this
  service
• Electronic notification from the hospitals a
  pilot project