Statistics Norway

Family counselling service

11 Figures family counselling service. Figures for 2008
  Total Region East Region South Region West Region Middle Region North
Population, total 4 799 252 1 746 043  926 908  996 712  666 164  463 425
Gross operating expenditures, family counselling service1  287 854  106 638 52 194 52 660 38 811 37 551
Adjusted gross operating expenditures, public owned family counselling offices  176 397 82 913 18 915 21 670 24 233 28 666
Wage expenditures, public owned family counselling offices  136 097 64 556 14 143 16 873 19 033 21 492
             
Family counselling service cases 28 963 11 376 5 528 4 839 3 781 3 439
Family counselling service cases, public owned family counselling offices 17 028 8 519 1 848 1 865 2 196 2 600
Average waiting time per case, all cases, family counselling service 31 31 27 40 30 24
Average duration per family counselling case (days)  127  128  121  149  142 93
Average number of sessions per family counselling case during the year 3.0 3.0 2.8 3.3 3.1 2.5
Average number of sessions per family counselling case since the establishment 4.1 4.2 3.8 4.8 4.7 3.1
Average man-hours per case during the year 4.1 4.1 3.9 4.2 4.4 3.6
Average man-hours per case since the establishment 5.6 5.7 5.2 6.1 6.7 4.5
Total time used on sessions during the year, family counselling  117 582 46 852 21 488 20 420 16 600 12 222
Total time used on sessions since the establishment, family counselling  163 602 64 784 28 660 29 368 25 460 15 330
Total number of sessions during the year, family counselling 85 452 33 794 15 654 16 012 11 551 8 441
Total number of sessions since the establishment, family counselling  120 048 47 438 20 922 23 191 17 858 10 639
             
Main actions in the counselling, couple counselling, all cases 12 232 5 047 2 412 2 099 1 623 1 051
Main actions in the counselling, parents counselling, all cases 5 232 1 929  983  749  851  720
Main actions in the counselling, counselling with the family/relatives, all cases 1 462  682  323  185  140  132
Main actions in the counselling, individual counselling, all cases 9 834 3 673 1 757 1 747 1 145 1 512
Main actions in the counselling, group treatment, all cases  124 36 33 13 21 21
Main actions in the counselling unknown 79 9 20 46 1 3
             
Man-years, family counselling  423.7  154.0 73.6 78.0 57.8 60.3
Man-years family counselling by social workers  154.5 47.4 26.1 32.6 23.5 24.9
Man-years family counselling by psychologists  109.4 49.2 15.1 18.9 16.0 10.3
Man-years family counselling by other than social workers and psychologists 79.3 25.0 18.5 14.4 9.1 12.3
Man-years family counselling by office workers 80.6 32.5 13.9 12.2 9.2 12.9
Vacancies family counselling 16.2 10.1 3.8 1.3 0.0 1.1
             
Hours spent on group therapy 3 333  557  701 1 474  361  240
Hours spent on relationship enhancement courses 3 551 1 009 1 183  284  759  316
Hours spent on other measures for users 2 976 1 658  601  349  186  182
Hours spent on information/guidance of students 1 099  236  302  280  228 53
Hours spent on consultation/guidance of the support service 4 413 1 589  767  577  686  794
Hours spent on courses/information of the support service 4 972 1 545  931 1 362  753  381
Hours spent on information to the media 1 392  949  148  109 45  141
1  Gross operating expenditures are given in NOK 1000].

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