In 2050 29% allochtonen?

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  1. Passerby says:

    Just curious, but it is my understanding that people who are say technicly Half-Dutch(by ethnicity)/Half-Turkish would be counted as just plain ‘allochtoon’. Can you confirm that? This i got from an admitably half-assed glimse of the Dutch national statistics site a few years back whilst trying to work out how data is gathered.
    It was something to do with there being no means of counting different backgrounds other than though migration figures, (as the census avoids that territory i think) keeping track of original migrants and their descendants was the only viable way of coming up with such demographic data, if i renember correctly.

    Just a curious ex-vreemdeling wondering how things are done there.

  2. martijn says:

    Welcome, ‘ex-vreemdeling’.

    Children who are from a mother OR from a father who is born in a foreign country, are considered to be second generation ‘allochtoon’. If this weren’t the case indeed this group (and in due course the entire 2nd or 3rd generation) would disappear in the statistics as Dutch. One of the questions of course how do long do we continue to do this. In 2050 we are speaking about the fourth generation (note that the guestworkers are considered first generation); do we still count them as allochtoon.

  3. Passerby says:

    I suppose using the census to collect data on self-identified ethnic background (as some other countries do) is still a bit of a no-no?

  4. martijn says:

    Yes, that means a census solely intended as a count of the people inhabiting the country. In many institutional forms, inquiries and so on, people are asked what their ethnic background is in some way or another. That means it is possible to make some reasonable accounts on the basis of that.

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