6 Employed persons aged 16-66 with health care education who are working in the |
health care industry5by category if personnel and sector. 2004 |
Total | Local administration6 |
County administration6 |
State administration6 |
Private sector and public enterprises |
Unspecified | |
Total | 209 317 | 99 761 | 2 783 | 75 723 | 30 489 | 561 |
Medical Secretary | 5 300 | 1 280 | 10 | 2 063 | 1 626 | 321 |
Auxilliary nurse | 55 943 | 41 446 | 19 | 10 465 | 3 917 | 96 |
Care worker | 11 198 | 10 469 | 8 | 252 | 466 | 3 |
Pharmacy technician | 173 | 98 | 2 | 40 | 31 | 2 |
Chiropodist | 620 | 196 | 1 | 36 | 385 | 2 |
Child care worker | 1 614 | 1 210 | 6 | 200 | 193 | 5 |
Dental secretary | 2 741 | 199 | 1 275 | 83 | 1 163 | 21 |
Unqualified occupational therapists |
2 396 | 1 918 | - | 246 | 230 | 2 |
Other health care education, secondary level1 |
2 787 | 489 | 5 | 1 475 | 811 | 7 |
Occupational therapists | 2 116 | 1 122 | 1 | 740 | 253 | - |
Physioterapists | 7 008 | 1 749 | 3 | 1 426 | 3 829 | 1 |
Midwives and public health nurse |
4 965 | 2 671 | - | 2 133 | 160 | 1 |
Radiographer | 1 937 | 34 | - | 1 690 | 212 | 1 |
Nurse | 64 598 | 23 549 | 3 | 35 125 | 5 851 | 70 |
Professional health worker for the mentally retarded |
6 772 | 5 062 | 6 | 1 133 | 571 | - |
Dental nurse | 738 | 45 | 364 | 14 | 310 | 5 |
Medical laboratory technologist |
3 980 | 131 | - | 3 416 | 414 | 19 |
Child welfare officer | 4 398 | 2 431 | 4 | 1 268 | 695 | - |
Social worker | 6 027 | 3 573 | 3 | 1 619 | 831 | 1 |
Other health care education, college level2 |
1 465 | 466 | 2 | 676 | 317 | 4 |
Pharmacists and dispensing pharmasist |
90 | 12 | 1 | 58 | 19 | - |
Physician3 | 7 049 | 946 | 7 | 4 478 | 1 618 | - |
Specialised physician | 8 440 | 449 | - | 4 889 | 3 102 | - |
Dentists and specialised dentists |
3 402 | 75 | 1 057 | 33 | 2 237 | - |
Psychologists | 3 019 | 105 | 3 | 1 940 | 971 | - |
Other health care education, univ. level4 |
541 | 36 | 3 | 225 | 277 | - |
1Paramedic and Dental technician are included |
2Audiologist, Optometrist and Certified prosthetist are included |
3Medicine students are included |
4Clinical nutritionist, Chiropractor and Perfusionist are included |
5Health care services except veterinary services, child care activities, school-age child care and recreation centres for children adolescents, work practice for ordinary employment, social welfare organisations, permanent sheltered employment and foundations/legacies that support social purposis |
6The hospitals where transferred to state administration January 2002 |
Source: Registerbased employment statistics for health care personnel, Statistics Norway |