Table

Participants in Norwegian by level of education and sex1
2011
TotalMalesFemales
Participants
1The statistics includes alle persons wich has a right and/or a duty to Norwegian for adult immigrants who has participated in Norwegian during the year. The statistics also includes asylum seekers wich lives in special asylum houses. In 2011 there was 4 100 asylum seekers and in 2010 there was 5 000 asylum seekers in the statistics for Norwegian for adult immigrants. Statistics Norway do not have the national official identity number for the asylum seekers, therefore there is a quite large group with missing background informations in the statistics.
All levels of education37 26116 41820 843
First stage of tertiary education, graduate level2 5939761 617
First stage of tertiary education, undergraduate level5 2791 9023 377
Upper secondary education4 1221 5702 552
Primary and lower secondary education10 1654 4965 669
Unspecified15 1027 4747 628
Participants (per cent)
All levels of education100.0100.0100.0
First stage of tertiary education, graduate level100.06.17.9
First stage of tertiary education, undergraduate level100.011.916.6
Upper secondary education100.09.812.5
Primary and lower secondary education100.028.027.8
Unspecified100.044.335.2