Nationality characteristics of all persons registered in the Municipal Basic Administration of Personal Data (GBA) (01-01-1995-01-01-2018)

For all persons who appear in the Dutch municipal population registers from 1 January 1995, the first nationality, if applicable the second nationality, shall contain the characterisation of the nationalities based on the number of nationalities with the date of commencement and date of end of each nationality. The file (component) is part of the CBS System of Social Statistical Files (SSB). The component is a coordinated version and contains information for 1 January 1995 to 31 December JYJJ. Only the information for the last year has been coordinated. Nationality is the legal nationality of a particular state (citizenship). Individuals may have multiple nationalities. The BRP Act (Basic Registration of Persons), which entered into force on 6 January 2014, provides that persons with Dutch nationality no longer include data on a second or subsequent nationality. This means that from 6 January 2014 on first registration of Dutch nationals in the BRP, no data on possible non-Dutch nationalities will be recorded. For Dutch nationals who were already registered, data on non-Dutch nationalities have not been kept since 31 January 2015. This means that the variables GBANATIONALITY2 and GBATYPENATIONALITY as of January 6, 2014 are NOT MORE BUSINESS. It is also a question of no longer registering a second or subsequent nationality in the BRP. As a result, the person seems to have lost non-Dutch nationality. This is not the case. With the introduction of the BRP Act, nothing has changed in the nationality(s) of the registered persons. More information on how to access the data: > https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/onze-diensten/maatwerk-en-microdata/microdata-zelf-onderzoek-doen ### Methodology When do you use this file? The file is used to add personal attributes to individuals within populations that originate from other files. This file is NOT suitable for deducing the state of the population, as published (once) by team Demography. For this purpose reference is made to the component GBASTANDBEVOLKINGYYJTABVV. This file is NOT suitable to determine the annual number of nationality changes as published (once) by Team Demography. There are two reasons for this: — Because the date starts on the starting date of the combination of two nationalities, it is extremely difficult to determine which nationality (the first, the second or both) has actually changed; — All changes relating to past messages, which have become known in a later year, are also incorporated in older years. For this, reference is made to file GBANATGEWIJZIGDENMASSABUS. Within the demographic statistics, fulfilled messages are not always counted in the year of event but in the year of receipt. Within this bus it is not possible to distinguish this. The file is a coordinated version of a living bus. This means that the information about only the last year is final and is consistent with the information published on StatLine by Team Demography. Changes in the past that become known (many) later will still be processed in the bus on the actual event date. As a result, the information about all other periods within the same component does not match the information published on StatLine by Team Demography. The file is of the bus type. Bus type means that the data file (the component) has a form in which in a record (a row in the file) attributes are attached to an entity using a time key. The time key consists of a start date and an end date. When a change occurs in one or more attributes, a new record is created. There shall be no overlap in the time keys of successive records for a specific entity. If levelling time is 1 January JJJJ+ 1 and the information must match the information published on StatLine from Team Demography then you use the coordinated component of JJJJ (the component runs until 31 December JYYY-1 00:00, this includes 1 January JYYY+ 1 00:00). Although the coordinated component contains information on a series of years, only the last year in the component is final. This means that a different version (year) of the coordinated component should be used for each year output. In all other cases, the uncoordinated version can be used. Also, with the same component, a single analysis file with multiple periods can be created at the same time. Some examples: Level moment Status figures Component 1-1-2015 coordinated according to StatLine, 2014 31-5-2012 coordinated according to StatLine, 2013 2012 according to StatLine coordinated, 2013 The publication of nationalities must be in accordance with a standard national publication list. This list contains current nationalities per year of publication. The nationality codes can be recoded to this national list using the reference file NATAKTUEELYYJJREFVV. ### Population Includes all persons who have been (were) registered in the Dutch municipal population registers from 1 January 1995.