Statistics Norway

Family counselling service

13 Figures family counselling service. Figures for 2007
  Total Region North Region Middle Region West Region South Region East
Population, total 4 737 171  462 037  659 621  981 620  916 458 1 717 435
Gross operating expenditures, family counselling service1  275 687 35 561 37 150 49 825 51 091  102 060
Adjusted gross operating expenditures, public owned family counselling offices  169 410 26 805 23 851 20 744 19 251 78 759
Wage expenditures, public owned family counselling offices  125 940 19 484 18 140 15 751 13 882 58 683
             
Family counselling service cases 29 416 3 681 3 813 4 854 5 462 11 606
Family counselling service cases, public owned family counselling offices 17 226 2 716 2 215 1 814 1 823 8 658
Average waiting time per case, all cases, family counselling service 26 20 30 31 25 25
Average duration per family counselling case (days)  121 90  145  140  116  118
Average number of sessions per family counselling case during the year 2.9 2.3 3.0 3.3 2.8 2.9
Average number of sessions per family counselling case since the establishment 4.2 3.0 4.9 5.1 3.9 4.2
Average man-hours per case during the year 3.9 3.3 4.4 4.1 3.8 3.9
Average man-hours per case since the establishment 5.7 4.3 7.1 6.3 5.3 5.7
Total time used on sessions during the year, family counselling  115 415 11 989 16 639 20 060 20 911 45 816
Total time used on sessions since the establishment, family counselling  168 625 15 652 26 977 30 759 29 090 66 147
Total number of sessions during the year, family counselling 85 212 8 287 11 488 15 928 15 441 34 068
Total number of sessions since the establishment, family counselling  124 523 10 913 18 723 24 516 21 494 48 877
             
Couple related issue main reason for enquiry, all cases 14 312 1 356 1 716 2 661 2 757 5 822
Parent-child related issue main reason for enquiry, all cases 2 889  356  317  501  527 1 188
Issue trusting to collaboration about children main reason for enquiry, all cases 8 019 1 311 1 225 1 070 1 426 2 987
Issue related to other family members or other main reason for enquiry, all cases  892  106  110  159  165  352
Individual problems main reason for enquiry, all cases 3 301  552  444  463  587 1 255
Unknown main reason for enquiry, all cases 3 0 1 0 0 2
             
Main actions in the counselling, couple counselling, all cases 12 749 1 040 1 583 2 227 2 433 5 466
Main actions in the counselling, parents-children counselling, all cases 1 368  140  183  202  259  584
Main actions in the counselling, collaboration about children, all cases 5 084  864  867  633  994 1 726
Main actions in the counselling, counselling with the rest of the family/others, all cases  281 38 28 41 50  124
Main actions in the counselling, individual counselling, all cases 9 779 1 586 1 109 1 722 1 683 3 679
Main actions in the counselling, group treatment, all cases  155 13 43 29 43 27
             
Man-years, family counselling  432.5 58.1 55.9 79.2 76.4  162.9
Man-years family counselling by social workers  164.3 27.4 22.8 35.1 29.6 49.4
Man-years family counselling by psychologists  111.2 10.5 14.5 20.2 13.5 52.5
Man-years family counselling by other than social workers and psychologists 76.1 7.6 9.2 11.2 18.6 29.6
Man-years family counselling by office workers 81.0 12.7 9.4 12.7 14.9 31.4
Vacancies family counselling 13.8 2.8 2.2 0.4 4.8 3.6
             
Time spent on group therapy 3 232  269  341  924  637 1 061
Time spent on relationship enhancement courses 4 109 1 294  353  330  827 1 305
Time spent on other measures for users 2 734  401 86  613  704  930
Time spent on information/guidance of students 1 382 79 70  617  169  447
Time spent on consultation/guidance of the support service 2 856  353  607  597  517  782
Time spent on courses/information of the support service 4 390  260  203 1 766  928 1 233
Time spent on information to the media  730 34  123  138  121  314
1  Gross operating expenditures are given in NOK 1 000.

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