Statistics Norway

Child welfare

5   Children under protection during the year, by age and type of assistance. 2003. (The table was corrected 15 September 2004)
Type of assistance Total1 Age
-2 3-5 6-12 13-17 18-22 Unknown
20032 36 010 2 118 4 967 13 738 11 399 3 730 58
               
Economic assistance 12 674 577 1 266 4 323 4 480 2 007 21
Kindergarten 5 053 760 3 163 1 130 0 0 0
Person selected to support child 4 967 62 215 2 127 2 117 437 9
Supervision 4 751 322 566 1 940 1 524 395 4
Visit home/relief support 10 499 491 1 685 5 321 2 629 366 7
Home adviser/relief at home 2 337 284 367 1 030 542 112 2
After school support 3 139 0 0 3 139 0 0 0
Leisure activity 3 785 25 97 1 956 1 460 245 2
Education/work 457 0 0 0 241 213 3
Medical examination and treatment 665 49 56 178 238 141 3
Treatment of children with special medical needs 247 11 15 77 113 30 1
Parents/child places (incl. maternity home) 381 179 87 64 32 18 1
Housing 860 0 0 0 245 611 4
Emergency shelter home 1 351 211 187 391 497 65 0
Foster home outside the family 4 545 180 431 1 548 1 666 707 13
Foster home within the family 1 665 73 141 621 613 215 2
Reinforced foster home outside the family 2 188 100 202 838 810 238 0
Reinforced foster home within the family 254 15 17 92 105 25 0
Children's home 2 180 27 50 254 1 324 525 0
Institution for alcoholics and drug addicts 307 11 6 8 106 175 1
Living/working collective 197 1 0 6 97 92 1
Psychiatric treatment in institution 76 0 3 9 46 18 0
Policlinical psychiatric treatment 461 34 0 0 327 99 1
Multisystemic treatment 617 0 0 29 555 32 1
Parent Management Training 129 1 0 93 34 1 0
Other assistance 15 232 900 1 722 5 976 5 155 1 467 12
1  Including children with unknown age.
2  Each child may have several types of assistance. Hence, the sum of types of assistance is larger than the number of child who have received assistance.

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