Total	Municipal health care services	Social care	Social- work activities7	Specialized somatic health care services	Specialized psychiatric health care services	Dental health care services	Other activities
Total	237 478	24 316	97 940	13 222	72 119	17 269	7 915	4 697
Medical secretary	7 344	2 767	787	77	3 178	300	80	155
Auxilliary nurse	58 116	1 207	45 287	864	7 373	2 697	139	549
Care worker	12 380	171	11 529	202	215	132	24	107
Pharmacy technician	280	13	176	11	49	5	13	13
Chiropodist	824	14	203	8	35	13	1	550
Child care worker	1 231	24	837	211	63	22	11	63
Dental secretary	3 154	31	155	31	117	15	2 778	27
Unqualified occupational therapist	2 387	84	1 877	94	88	188	4	52
Other health care education, secondary level1	2 975	42	323	32	2 271	52	196	59
Occupational therapist	2 600	744	764	99	580	294	1	118
Physiotherapist	8 385	5 774	321	56	1 929	152	5	148
Midwife and public health nurse	5 415	2 538	338	171	2 198	118	4	48
Radiographer	2 289	24	52	4	2 023	30	-	156
Nurse	70 040	3 439	24 697	720	34 011	6 494	39	640
Social educator	8 412	244	5 680	915	645	841	4	83
Dental nurse	839	3	16	4	14	-	797	5
Medical laboratory technologist	4 573	197	42	6	4 052	25	2	249
Child welfare officer	5 444	167	773	3 606	286	532	3	77
Social worker	8 007	289	1 083	4 604	757	1 102	1	171
Other health care education, college level2	6 012	194	2 562	1 176	1 336	528	24	192
Pharmacist and dispensing chemist	92	8	7	1	54	7	-	15
Physician3	8 212	2 628	160	25	4 671	676	19	33
Specialised physician	9 514	2 868	41	13	5 025	863	3	701
Dentist and specialist in dentistry	3 809	8	5	1	43	2	3 742	8
Psychologist	3 815	773	18	241	588	2 104	-	91
Other health care education, univ. level4	1 329	65	207	50	518	77	25	387

1Paramedic and Dental technician are included

2Audiologist, Optometrist and Certified prosthetist are included. College level courses of shorter duration are included from 2006

3Medical 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 purposes

6The classification of the local and county administration services is based by the function classification used in the KOSTRA-report

7Social care include municipal social security office, social services for drug addicts outside institution, employment/work training by the local administrations health care department asylum reception, other caring institutions and other social care services outside institution

Source: Registerbased employment statistics for health care personnel, Statistics Norway