Statistics Norway

Employment among immigrants (register based)

12 Employed by occupational groups and country group of birth. Absolute numbers and in per cent. Q4 2008
  Employed in total Thereof:
  Immigrants in total Country group 11 Country group 2 2
In total 2 235 853  205 527 98 671  106 856
1 Legislators, senior officials and managers  156 170 6 373 4 695 1 678
2 Professionals  283 456 25 781 16 467 9 314
3 Technicians and associate professionals  479 485 28 970 16 437 12 533
4 Clerks  177 114 18 089 8 804 9 285
5 Service workers and shop and market sales workers  549 771 48 106 15 142 32 964
6 Agricultural, forestry and fishery workers 54 158 1 605 1 266  339
7 Craft and related trades workers  229 502 26 986 19 765 7 221
8 Plant and machine operators and assemblers  182 413 21 234 7 755 13 479
9 Elementary occupations  123 784 28 383 8 340 20 043
         
In total  100.0  100.0  100.0  100.0
1 Legislators, senior officials and managers 7.0 3.1 4.8 1.6
2 Professionals 12.7 12.5 16.7 8.7
3 Technicians and associate professionals 21.4 14.1 16.7 11.7
4 Clerks 7.9 8.8 8.9 8.7
5 Service workers and shop and market sales workers 24.6 23.4 15.3 30.8
6 Agricultural, forestry and fishery workers 2.4 0.8 1.3 0.3
7 Craft and related trades workers 10.3 13.1 20.0 6.8
8 Plant and machine operators and assemblers 8.2 10.3 7.9 12.6
9 Elementary occupations 5.5 13.8 8.5 18.8
1  EU/EFTA-countries, North America, Australia and New Zealand.
2  Eastern Europe outside the EU, Asia(Turkey incl.), Africa, South and Central America and Oceania except Australia and New Zealand.

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