5 Employed persons aged 16-66 with health care education working in
the health care industry1 by category of personnel and settled working hours. 4. q. 2008

Weekly settled working hours Mean
main
employ
ment
Portion with
more than one
employ-
ment
Mean
per person
Total 1-19 20-29 30-36 37-39 40-44 45 and
over
Total 242 520 40 781 56 741 74 771 58 444 11 087 696 30,1 9,9 31,2
Medical secretary 7 710 1 609 1 275 1 645 3 111 59 11 29,6 10,2 30,7
Auxiliary Nurse 58 188 13 467 20 607 18 745 5 062 260 47 27,0 9,3 28,0
Care worker 12 532 2 513 4 691 4 122 1 129 69 8 27,4 11,2 28,7
Paramedic 2 313 189 117 1 672 266 50 19 33,3 18,2 35,4
Pharmacy technician 267 115 56 44 48 4 - 24,1 13,9 25,5
Chiropodist 900 223 191 57 46 383 - 29,7 11,6 30,9
Child care worker 1 325 466 333 279 206 40 1 25,1 16,0 27,2
Dental secretary 3 268 630 502 672 1 391 62 11 30,1 9,7 31,2
Dental technician 199 23 18 6 21 131 - 37,1 1,0 37,2
Unqualified occupational
therapists
2 323 577 588 482 662 14 - 28,0 14,1 29,5
Other health care
education, sec. level
612 121 111 131 242 4 3 30,0 9,3 31,1
Occupational therapist 2 658 312 308 708 1 311 19 - 32,4 9,1 33,4
Physiotherapist 8 635 1 079 1 154 2 275 1 266 2 839 22 33,9 10,7 35,1
Midwife 2 438 533 754 778 337 32 4 28,4 11,9 29,8
Radiographer 2 335 185 209 982 932 20 7 33,6 4,4 34,0
Nurse 71 496 9 963 18 486 28 302 14 129 465 151 30,3 6,8 31,0
Social educator 8 799 821 1 432 3 715 2 781 39 11 32,4 9,1 33,5
Public health nurse 3 087 465 557 864 1 191 10 - 30,6 11,4 31,9
Dental nurse 874 157 132 124 374 86 1 31,0 14,5 32,8
Audiologist 232 22 14 39 144 12 1 33,8 7,3 34,5
Medical laboratory
technologist
4 554 409 558 1 581 1 965 30 11 33,0 4,2 33,4
Optometrist 75 17 6 5 41 6 - 31,3 13,3 33,1
Child welfare officer 5 626 521 559 1 738 2 743 53 12 33,3 7,3 34,1
Social worker 8 223 760 641 1 833 4 901 76 12 33,7 7,5 34,5
Other health care
education, college level2
5 959 2 751 800 964 1 387 35 22 22,8 11,5 23,9
Clinical nutritionist 171 17 14 43 85 11 1 33,1 12,9 34,6
Pharmacist and
dispensing
chemist
93 17 4 17 48 7 - 31,7 7,5 32,5
Chiropractor 388 48 29 3 48 256 4 37,2 3,9 37,6
Perfusionist 33 - - 16 17 - - 36,5 - 36,5
Physician 8 395 738 770 683 4 965 1 168 71 34,8 19,5 36,9
Medical student with license 314 246 16 9 29 12 2 17,2 3,2 17,6
Specialised physician 9 716 600 1 127 989 4 055 2 729 216 35,7 26,1 38,4
Dentist 3 507 360 412 734 571 1 398 32 35,3 10,2 36,5
Specialist in dentistry 359 46 30 35 119 121 8 34,9 16,4 36,9
Psychologist 4 093 277 193 414 2 621 583 5 35,5 12,7 36,9
Other health care
education, university level
823 504 47 65 200 4 3 19,1 10,9 20,1