Statistics Norway

Employment among immigrants (register based)

3   Employed by immigrant background, region of birth, sex and labour market status.
Q4 2005. Per cent of persons aged 16-74 years in each group and in absolute figures
  Employees Total Males Females
  Self employed Employed, total Employees Self employed Employed, total Employees Self employed Employed, total
  Per cent
Total population 64.4 5.0 69.4 65.4 7.2 72.6 63.3 2.8 66.0
                   
First generation immigrants, total 53.5 4.0 57.5 57.2 5.3 62.5 49.9 2.7 52.6
The Nordic countries 66.3 6.0 72.4 66.3 8.2 74.5 66.3 4.1 70.4
Western Europe else 62.6 5.9 68.5 67.4 6.6 73.9 56.4 5.0 61.4
New EU countries in Eastern Europe 65.3 3.4 68.6 70.3 3.7 74.0 61.0 3.1 64.1
Eastern Europe else 54.3 2.0 56.2 57.5 2.8 60.3 51.7 1.3 53.0
North America and Oceania 52.4 5.9 58.4 57.2 7.2 64.5 47.9 4.7 52.7
Asia1 46.9 3.8 50.7 51.9 5.3 57.2 42.2 2.3 44.5
Africa 39.7 2.1 41.8 43.7 2.8 46.5 34.6 1.1 35.8
South and Central America 56.8 3.2 60.0 61.9 4.6 66.5 52.8 2.1 54.9
             
Norwegian born to foreign born parents, total2 53.8 2.1 55.9 54.4 2.9 57.3 53.1 1.3 54.4
The Nordic countries 68.2 4.7 72.8 67.3 6.2 73.4 69.1 3.1 72.2
Western Europe else 62.4 3.9 66.2 63.4 5.0 68.5 61.1 2.6 63.7
New EU countries in Eastern Europe 63.0 3.8 66.8 61.6 4.8 66.4 64.5 2.7 67.1
Eastern Europe else 61.3 2.3 63.6 60.6 1.7 62.3 62.0 2.8 64.8
North America and Oceania 58.2 4.5 62.7 61.7 7.4 69.1 55.2 2.1 57.3
Asia1 50.2 1.5 51.6 52.0 2.1 54.1 48.3 0.7 49.0
Africa 50.5 1.0 51.5 47.7 1.7 49.3 53.5 0.4 53.9
South and Central America 36.6 0.8 37.4 33.2 1.5 34.7 40.3 - 40.3
                   
          Absolute figures
Total population 2 132 000  166 000 2 298 000  1 092 398  120 282 1 212 680  1 039 602 45 718 1 085 320
                   
First generation immigrants, total  148 249 11 011  159 260 77 951 7 186 85 137 70 298 3 825 74 123
The Nordic countries 29 557 2 694 32 251 14 120 1 752 15 872 15 437  942 16 379
Western Europe else 19 647 1 850 21 497 12 012 1 167 13 179 7 635  683 8 318
New EU countries in Eastern Europe 9 786  503 10 289 4 815  251 5 066 4 971  252 5 223
Eastern Europe else 19 420  697 20 117 9 039  439 9 478 10 381  258 10 639
North America and Oceania 3 732  423 4 155 1 964  248 2 212 1 768  175 1 943
Asia1 47 473 3 840 51 313 25 386 2 613 27 999 22 087 1 227 23 314
Africa 12 127  638 12 765 7 501  486 7 987 4 626  152 4 778
South and Central America 6 507  366 6 873 3 114  230 3 344 3 393  136 3 529
             
Norwegian born by foreign born parents, total2 8 244  322 8 566 4 292  227 4 519 3 952 95 4 047
The Nordic countries 1 053 72 1 125  534 49  583  519 23  542
Western Europe else  722 45  767  392 31  423  330 14  344
New EU countries in Eastern Europe  498 30  528  255 20  275  243 10  253
Eastern Europe else  457 17  474  214 6  220  243 11  254
North America and Oceania  103 8  111 50 6 56 53 2 55
Asia1 4 634  134 4 768 2 469  101 2 570 2 165 33 2 198
Africa  592 12  604  289 10  299  303 2  305
South and Central America  185 4  189 89 4 93 96 - 96
1  Including Turkey.
2  By mothers native country.

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