Följdinvandring och medborgarskap
en statistisk analys
During the last years around 100 000 immigrants have arrived to Sweden, people with different reasons and different goals for settling down in Sweden. The reason for immigrating to Sweden that will be dealt with in this thesis is following immigration, i.e. when someone moves here because they have relatives living in the country.The reason why it is interesting to study following immigration is that it is an affecting factor for how many that will immigrate to Sweden the following years and may then be used to make a forecast, based on how many first time immigrants there are. To be able to investigate the following immigration analyses are made with time series, logistic regression and Poisson regression. An ARIMA-model has been used to estimate the number of following immigrants in the future.The other part of this thesis will inquire the matter how inclined immigrants are to become Swedish citizens, whether they even apply for citizenship and also how long time it takes from the time when they fulfil the conditions for Swedish citizenship until they apply. Here also multiple logistic regression will be used and then ordinary regression.The most common reason for permitted residence in Sweden is following immigration. Following immigration has increased since 1998, mainly over the last years there has been a substantial immigration increase. It is difficult to predict how the immigration will develop during the following years due to the occurred growth of immigrants at the end of the study period. Since 1998 about 5% of the persons that have got permitted residence in Sweden are association persons. Most common to be an association person is an older man and the reason he got permitted residence was asylum. The association persons have in average 3,16 following immigrants tied to them.To be Swedish citizen through naturalization there are conditions that need to be fulfilled, for example, the immigrant has to have been settled in Sweden for a certain time. For the immigrants that fulfil this time condition there are about 79 % that apply for Swedish citizenship. The largest probability that an immigrant apply for citizenship occur if the person is young, woman and following immigrant. The ones that apply for citizenship are waiting in average 57 days until they are applying after they fulfil the time condition.