1 Number of persons aged 15-85 with health care education by category of personnel
and employmentstatus. 4. q. 2010 (Updated 14 October 2011)

  Persons,
total		 In the labour force Outside the labour force7
Total Employed Unempl. Total Under
education 		Work assessment
allowance,
disability
pension
and survivors
pension		 Retirement-
pension and
flexible
retirement
pension 6 		Cash-
for-
care 		Unsp.
Wage
earn.		 Self
empl.
Total 438 713 354 088 332 884 18 846 2 358 84 625 7 502 28 934 35 446 1 072 11 671
Medical secretary 13 093 11 097 10 738 183 176 1 996 233 1 173 222 56 312
Auxiliary nurse 104 330 72 844 70 688 1 564 592 31 486 1 023 13 049 14 649 201 2 564
Health worker1 1 309 1 206 1 193 2 11 103 9 13 - 2 79
Care worker 20 961 17 736 17 297 251 188 3 225 241 1 996 399 86 503
Pharmacy technician 6 054 5 008 4 839 64 105 1 046 131 488 203 38 186
Chiropodist 2 300 1 774 983 762 29 526 26 284 99 4 113
Child care worker 17 769 15 960 15 604 160 196 1 809 284 908 115 88 414
Dental secretary 6 252 5 103 4 921 129 53 1 149 81 527 316 17 208
Unqualified occupational
therapist 		5 262 4 044 3 879 126 39 1 218 64 705 302 19 128
Other health care
education, secondary level2		 8 333 7 567 7 240 281 46 766 278 177 130 7 174
Occupational therapist 4 443 3 836 3 744 65 27 607 48 199 198 18 144
Physiotherapist 12 863 10 984 6 923 4 007 54 1 879 112 262 1 024 22 459
Midwife and public
health nurse 		9 037 6 768 6 630 129 9 2 269 36 398 1 586 16 233
Radiographer 3 423 3 004 2 956 20 28 419 58 132 136 6 87
Nurse 111 674 91 109 89 392 1 446 271 20 565 1 318 5 282 10 583 308 3 074
Social educator 13 899 12 601 12 395 148 58 1 298 105 659 229 33 272
Dental nurse 1 399 1 213 1 073 130 10 186 15 57 61 4 49
Medical laboratory
technologist 		7 664 6 594 6 440 89 65 1 070 117 260 455 21 217
Child welfare officer 11 140 9 818 9 539 190 89 1 322 110 562 331 30 289
Social worker 15 971 13 411 13 032 280 99 2 560 177 951 989 41 402
Other health care
education, college level3 		13 018 11 014 10 794 168 52 2 004 1 559 100 145 13 187
Pharmacist and
dispensing chemist 		4 742 3 902 3 827 57 18 840 68 101 522 6 143
Physician4 13 463 11 446 9 493 1 872 81 2 017 827 224 301 20 645
Specialised physician 13 865 12 276 8 916 3 349 11 1 589 18 142 1 165 3 261
Dentist and
specialist in dentistry 		6 176 4 830 2 708 2 114 8 1 346 23 119 988 2 214
Psychologist 7 320 6 661 5 814 817 30 659 27 141 277 11 203
Other health care
education, univ. level5 		2 953 2 282 1 826 443 13 671 514 25 21 - 111

1Health worker is a new health care education from 2009
2Paramedics and Dental technicians are included
3Audiologists, Optometrists, Certified prosthetists are included. College level courses of shorter duration are included for 2006
4Medical students are included
5Clinical nutritionists, Chiropractors and Perfusionists are included
6The figures for persons with flexible retirement pension are not complete
7The figures for persons outside the labour force were updated 14 October 2011
Source: Registerbased employment statistics for health care personnel, Statistics Norway