Population registration in Sweden

1. Population registration in Sweden • Ingegerd Sterbäck • National Tax Agency • E-mail: ingegerd.sterback@skatteverket.se • www.skatteverket.se

2. History 1571 first mention of parish registers 1686 nation-wide rules for population registration 1947 Personal identity number introduced 1960s computerization 1991 Tax Administration takes over 0204 A 02

3. Collect Supply Update Check Population registration Purpose

4. 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

5. The Information Is Distributed... 2 million birth certificates and other extracts from the registers 46 million notifications to • Thetax 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

6. Personal Identity Number Year Month Day Birth no. Birthtime Check digit 0 1 Even number = female Odd number = male 49 01 22 - 4131 0204 A 07

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

8. 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. ..

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. Notification to the tax office

13. Notification of birth

14. Dissemnation of information

15. 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