Statistics Norway

Employment among immigrants (register based)

11   Employees1, by occupational groups and region of birth. Q4 2003
  Employees, total First generation immigrants
  Total Western Non-western
  Per cent
Total  100.0  100.0  100.0  100.0
         
1 Legislators, senior officials and managers 8.8 5.0 9.4 2.1
2 Professionals 10.1 10.5 17.3 6.0
3 Technicians and associate professionals 18.0 12.2 19.4 7.6
4 Clerks 10.8 9.4 8.8 9.7
5 Service workers and shop and market sales workers 20.7 21.5 18.5 23.4
6 Agricultural, forestry and fishery workers 1.1 0.7 0.8 0.6
7 Craft and related trades workers 12.3 10.1 12.5 8.5
8 Plant and machine operators and assemblers 11.3 12.4 7.6 15.6
9 Elementary occupations 6.7 18.2 5.7 26.4
         
  Absolute figures
Total 1 280 473 78 817 31 163 47 654
         
1 Legislators, senior officials and managers  112 531 3 933 2 920 1 013
2 Professionals  129 718 8 247 5 381 2 866
3 Technicians and associate professionals  231 009 9 640 6 036 3 604
4 Clerks  138 768 7 374 2 741 4 633
5 Service workers and shop and market sales workers  265 250 16 946 5 777 11 169
6 Agricultural, forestry and fishery workers 14 100  561  252  309
7 Craft and related trades workers  158 110 7 972 3 908 4 064
8 Plant and machine operators and assemblers  144 835 9 777 2 364 7 413
9 Elementary occupations 86 152 14 367 1 784 12 583
1  Employees within the health enterprises and municipal and county administration are not included.

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