Folkbokforing
In Sweden, folkbokföring (literal translation: “people's bookkeeping”) is the registration of residents .
Folkbokföring has existed in Sweden since the early modern period , the term comes from church records from 1571. At the beginning it was the parishes ( församlingar ) who took on this task. The oldest surviving church registers with the dates of the inhabitants date from the early 17th century. With a few exceptions, complete church archives have existed for all of Sweden since the 18th century. The most important lists in the church records were the birth, marriage and death books as well as the so-called husförhörslängder (from around 1895–1900 församlingsböcker ). The latter listed all members of a parish, i.e. in the past practically all residents in the area of the parish, family by family with personal data and the grading of individual reading skills and catechism knowledge .
The Church of Sweden , the state church until 1999, was responsible until June 30, 1991 for the registration of all residents of Sweden - regardless of their church affiliation - until then called “church records”.
On July 1, 1991, the church bookkeeping was merged with the tax registration ( mantalsskrivningen ) to a single Folkbokföring. Today it is run by the Skatteverket , the Swedish tax authority . The division into statistical districts since January 1, 2016 corresponds to the division of Sweden into the församlingar of the Church of Sweden on December 31, 1999.
process
- Name ( last name , first name , possibly further first names, maiden name)
- Postal address and
- Residence (in Sweden)
- församling / district and / or commun in which one is registered
- Spouse or life partner , children, parents, guardianship and adoption
- Place of birth or, until 1947, the församling in which the mother was registered at birth.
- nationality
- Civil status
In the case of immigration or an expected length of stay of at least one year:
- Date of entry into Sweden
- Estimated length of stay
- nationality
To the details of the person, län , kommun and församling are added and the person is assigned a person number , a code for identification.
Changes at
- Names, for example for weddings / registered partnerships
- Inclusion in the electoral register ( roasted lengthways )
- Burial place
- Removal from the people's bookkeeping
- Death or declaration of death
- Emigration from Sweden
- Undetectability
Personal number
The key to the register of residents in Sweden is the so-called " Personennummer " ( personnummer ). The personal number consists of ten digits and consists of the date of birth, a three-digit sequential number and a checksum number . Example: 650215-3412
The serial number indicates the gender of the person. It is odd for males and even for females. For persons registered before 1990 (i.e. born or immigrated), the sequence number indicates the person's country of birth or the fact that a person was born outside of Sweden. Because of criticism of this assignment option, among other things, random sequential numbers have been assigned since 1990.
499 combinations for women and 500 for men can be generated for each birthday, which is sufficient for around 500 new births in Sweden per day. However, for some dates, especially in the 1950s and 1960s, the personal numbers were running low. The reason for this is, on the one hand, the registration of immigrants with not exactly known dates of birth that were previously assigned to January 1st or July 1st. Another reason is people who only live in Sweden for a limited time. Even if a person leaves Sweden after a short period of time, their personal number has been used up and cannot be re-assigned. The Skatteverket urged the government to find a solution to this problem. The problem was solved by the fact that the correct date of birth is recorded in the Folkbokföring, but the following day is indicated in the personal number.
Web links
- Via the personal number at the Skatteverket (Swedish)
credentials
- ^ Districtsindelning i folkbokföringen. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Riksantikvarieämbetet, January 27, 2015. Accessed December 31, 2015.
- ↑ SFS 2015: 493 Förordning om distrikt. Svensk författningssamling, June 17, 2015. Accessed December 31, 2015.
- ↑ The place of birth is defined as the municipality in which the mother was registered at the time of the birth: Law on Registration (Swedish) .
- ↑ Personnumren tar snart slut och måste därför ersättas Dagens Nyheter , February 23, 2007 last downloaded 3 February 2014
- ↑ Personal numbers have run out - gets wrong birthday (Dagens Nyheter, Swedish, accessed on April 7, 2016).
