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Table 6 Selected summary statistics, by year of arrival

From: Labour market integration of refugees and the importance of the neighbourhood: Norwegian quasi-experimental evidence

Year

Employment pct.

Higher education

Men, pct.

Cohabitating

Age

Origin, pct. 

 

 Observations

(after five years)

 

couple w/child

 

Europe

Mid-east

 

1990

33.3

2.7

58.8

41.4

20.9

2.6

31.9

954

1991

43.1

5.8

61.2

47.7

21.3

1.4

46.0

1,169

1992

52.9

10.9

59.4

51.0

20.5

19.9

45.6

1,518

1993

62.7

16.9

50.7

62.2

21.3

87.5

8.1

5,393

1994

67.7

16.1

51.8

65.7

22.9

87.2

8.1

2,688

1995

57.2

7.7

52.4

69.4

22.5

76.2

17.0

1,379

1996

53.8

5.8

50.5

71.1

22.6

58.0

34.1

821

1997

46.2

8.3

59.0

66.8

21.8

15.0

76.6

913

1998

40.5

11.3

56.2

68.4

22.5

9.3

71.8

826

1999

22.0

12.8

53.0

63.0

23.0

73.6

14.0

3708

2000

46.3

7.9

53.4

64.2

24.0

30.5

27.3

1183

2001

56.5

12.3

53.1

59.4

25.2

13.2

41.7

1166

2002

58.8

19.1

52.6

52.2

25.7

7.7

41.3

976

2003

66.4

16.2

56.6

53.5

26.9

2.8

30.9

1227

2004

71.4

13.3

48.5

37.2

26.0

1.1

6.5

873

2005

70.9

17.8

53.9

60.4

28.0

1.5

1.4

518

2006

72.5

9.5

54.3

62.8

28.1

1.7

2.8

643

2007

65.2

11.6

53.9

52.3

28.8

0.0

8.4

751

2008

64.5

19.8

50.8

49.0

30.2

0.9

22.7

449

2009

54.6

8.8

41.9

46.8

31.0

0.3

25.2

797

2010

53.3

12.6

40.8

46.1

31.3

0.5

31.3

595

2011

57.4

17.9

36.7

37.6

30.9

0.7

23.4

559

2012

58.4

10.4

40.3

51.3

31.8

0.6

14.8

846

  1. 29,952 observations including everyone aged 25–59 during 2010–19