Statistics Norway

Employment among immigrants (register based)

12   Employees1, by occupational groups and region of birth. Q4 2005 and 2006
  Employees in total Q4 2005 Employees in total Q4 2006
  Thereof: Thereof:
  First generation immigrants First generation immigrants
  in total Western Non-western in total Western Non-western
In total 1 402 363 95 236 34 501 60 735 1 460 334  110 165 37 835 72 330
                 
1 Legislators, senior officials and managers  115 112 4 118 2 905 1 213  118 179 4 427 3 061 1 366
2 Professionals  147 831 10 238 6 416 3 822  162 297 12 398 7 583 4 815
3 Technicians and associate professionals  254 290 11 175 6 594 4 581  264 677 12 818 7 195 5 623
4 Clerks  137 848 8 627 2 847 5 780  141 594 9 946 3 068 6 878
5 Service workers and shop and market sales workers  308 541 21 585 6 474 15 111  318 468 24 065 6 888 17 177
6 Agricultural, forestry and fishery workers 17 459  776  277  499 17 187  879  297  582
7 Craft and related trades workers  177 744 10 767 4 647 6 120  186 321 13 586 5 115 8 471
8 Plant and machine operators and assemblers  154 781 11 567 2 401 9 166  159 298 13 229 2 546 10 683
9 Elementary occupations 88 757 16 383 1 940 14 443 92 313 18 817 2 082 16 735
                 
In total  100.0  100.0  100.0  100.0  100.0  100.0  100.0  100.0
                 
1 Legislators, senior officials and managers 8.2 4.3 8.4 2.0 8.1 4.0 8.1 1.9
2 Professionals 10.5 10.8 18.6 6.3 11.1 11.3 20.0 6.7
3 Technicians and associate professionals 18.1 11.7 19.1 7.5 18.1 11.6 19.0 7.8
4 Clerks 9.8 9.1 8.3 9.5 9.7 9.0 8.1 9.5
5 Service workers and shop and market sales workers 22.0 22.7 18.8 24.9 21.8 21.8 18.2 23.7
6 Agricultural, forestry and fishery workers 1.2 0.8 0.8 0.8 1.2 0.8 0.8 0.8
7 Craft and related trades workers 12.7 11.3 13.5 10.1 12.8 12.3 13.5 11.7
8 Plant and machine operators and assemblers 11.0 12.1 7.0 15.1 10.9 12.0 6.7 14.8
9 Elementary occupations 6.3 17.2 5.6 23.8 6.3 17.1 5.5 23.1
1  Employees within the health enterprises and municipal and county administration are not included.

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