2 Number of persons aged 16-66 with health care education by category of personnel and employment. |
Absolute figures and as per cent of employed5. 1. october 2002 og 2003 |
Persons with health care education |
Employed | Per cent of employed | |||||||
Education | 2002 | 2003 | Per cent change |
2002 | 2003 | Per cent change |
2002 | 2003 | Per cent point change |
Total | 294 340 | 300 959 | 2,2 | 254 046 | 259 436 | 2,1 | 86,3 | 86,2 | -0,1 |
Medical secretary2 | 6 662 | 7 156 | 7,4 | 5 575 | 5 939 | 6,5 | 83,7 | 83,0 | -0,7 |
Auxiliary Nurse1 | 80 818 | 81 563 | 0,9 | 66 022 | 66 170 | 0,2 | 81,7 | 81,1 | -0,6 |
Care worker2 | 14 311 | 14 527 | 1,5 | 12 606 | 12 662 | 0,4 | 88,1 | 87,2 | -0,9 |
Paramedic2 | 1 479 | 2 103 | 42,2 | 1 423 | 2 027 | 42,4 | 96,2 | 96,4 | 0,2 |
Pharmacy technician2 | 4 038 | 4 386 | 8,6 | 3 643 | 3 896 | 6,9 | 90,2 | 88,8 | -1,4 |
Chiropodist | 1 590 | 1 635 | 2,8 | 1 237 | 1 262 | 2,0 | 77,8 | 77,2 | -0,6 |
Child care worker3 | 14 331 | 13 976 | -2,5 | 12 017 | 11 593 | -3,5 | 83,9 | 82,9 | -0,9 |
Dental secretary2 | 3 513 | 3 998 | 13,8 | 3 033 | 3 499 | 15,4 | 86,3 | 87,5 | 1,2 |
Dental technician2 | 704 | 720 | 2,3 | 618 | 628 | 1,6 | 87,8 | 87,2 | -0,6 |
Uncualified occupational therapists |
4 448 | 4 417 | -0,7 | 3 663 | 3 567 | -2,6 | 82,4 | 80,8 | -1,6 |
Other health care education, secondary level educati |
1 475 | 1 445 | -2,0 | 1 349 | 1 314 | -2,6 | 91,5 | 90,9 | -0,5 |
Occupational therapist | 2 582 | 2 735 | 5,9 | 2 314 | 2 470 | 6,7 | 89,6 | 90,3 | 0,7 |
Physioterapist | 9 110 | 9 368 | 2,8 | 7 496 | 7 821 | 4,3 | 82,3 | 83,5 | 1,2 |
Midwives | 2 661 | 2 680 | 0,7 | 2 379 | 2 426 | 2,0 | 89,4 | 90,5 | 1,1 |
Radiographer | 1 996 | 2 135 | 7,0 | 1 886 | 1 994 | 5,7 | 94,5 | 93,4 | -1,1 |
Nurse | 77 046 | 79 352 | 3,0 | 69 295 | 71 389 | 3,0 | 89,9 | 90,0 | 0,0 |
Professional health worker for the mentally retarded |
7 851 | 8 467 | 7,8 | 7 282 | 7 814 | 7,3 | 92,8 | 92,3 | -0,5 |
Public helath nurse3 | 3 489 | 3 438 | -1,5 | 3 158 | 3 103 | -1,7 | 90,5 | 90,3 | -0,3 |
Dental nurses | 1 043 | 1 074 | 3,0 | 917 | 939 | 2,4 | 87,9 | 87,4 | -0,5 |
Audiologist2 | 265 | 273 | 3,0 | 239 | 245 | 2,5 | 90,2 | 89,7 | -0,4 |
Medical laboratory technologist |
5 433 | 5 561 | 2,4 | 4 967 | 5 077 | 2,2 | 91,4 | 91,3 | -0,1 |
Optometrist | 1 159 | 1 190 | 2,7 | 1 085 | 1 112 | 2,5 | 93,6 | 93,4 | -0,2 |
Certified prosthetist | 130 | 126 | -3,1 | 124 | 120 | -3,2 | 95,4 | 95,2 | -0,1 |
Child welfare officer3 | 6 486 | 6 467 | -0,3 | 5 812 | 5 828 | 0,3 | 89,6 | 90,1 | 0,5 |
Social worker3 | 9 070 | 9 016 | -0,6 | 8 085 | 8 107 | 0,3 | 89,1 | 89,9 | 0,8 |
Other health care education, college level |
2 236 | 2 165 | -3,2 | 2 075 | 2 008 | -3,2 | 92,8 | 92,7 | -0,1 |
Clinical nutritionist2 | 229 | 236 | 3,1 | 213 | 219 | 2,8 | 93,0 | 92,8 | -0,2 |
Pharmacist and dispensing pharacist2 |
2 861 | 2 951 | 3,1 | 2 607 | 2 738 | 5,0 | 91,1 | 92,8 | 1,7 |
Chiropractor | 303 | 309 | 2,0 | 239 | 243 | 1,7 | 78,9 | 78,6 | -0,2 |
Perfusionist | 24 | 24 | - | 24 | 24 | - | 100,0 | 100,0 | - |
Physician | 7 683 | 8 072 | 5,1 | 6 433 | 6 889 | 7,1 | 83,7 | 85,3 | 1,6 |
Medisine students with lisens | 855 | 904 | 5,7 | 582 | 578 | -0,7 | 68,1 | 63,9 | -4,1 |
Specialised phycisian | 9 237 | 9 103 | -1,5 | 7 498 | 7 372 | -1,7 | 81,2 | 81,0 | -0,2 |
Dentist | 4 069 | 4 078 | 0,2 | 3 455 | 3 491 | 1,0 | 84,9 | 85,6 | 0,7 |
Specialist in dentistry4 | 296 | 310 | 4,7 | 247 | 255 | 3,2 | 83,4 | 82,3 | -1,2 |
Psychologist | 4 364 | 4 533 | 3,9 | 3 991 | 4 183 | 4,8 | 91,5 | 92,3 | 0,8 |
Other helath care education, university level |
493 | 466 | -5,5 | 457 | 434 | -5,0 | 92,7 | 93,1 | 0,4 |
1Childrens nurse are included |
2Authorization are required from 1. January 2001 |
3Statistics Norways own register of education is from 2002 |
4Information about spesialist in dentistry are missing in 2002 |
5Per cent of employed is employed persons in per cent of total |
Source: Registerbased employment statistics for health care personnel, Statistics Norway |