Statistics Norway

Employment among immigrants (register based)

10 Employees, by immigrant-background, country group and economic sector. Absolute figures and in per cent. Q4 2009 and 2010
  Total1 State sector Private sector 2 Municipal and county sector
2009, total 2 326 000  269 945 1 526 810  524 358
         
Non-immigrants 2 075 731  247 075 1 345 667  480 167
Immigrants and Norwegian-born with immigrant parents  250 269 22 870  181 143 44 191
Thereof:        
Country group 13  120 001 11 459 91 907 15 488
Country group 2 4  130 268 11 411 89 236 28 703
         
2010, total 2 358 000  271 909 1 547 641  534 807
         
Non-immigrants 2 083 127  247 822 1 346 390  486 387
Immigrants and Norwegian-born with immigrant parents  274 873 24 087  201 251 48 420
Thereof:        
Country group 13  136 921 12 027  107 234 17 126
Country group 24  137 952 12 060 94 017 31 294
         
         
2009, total  100.0  100.0  100.0  100.0
         
Non-immigrants 89.2 91.5 88.1 91.6
Immigrants and Norwegian-born with immigrant parents 10.8 8.5 11.9 8.4
Thereof:        
Country group 13 5.2 4.2 6.0 3.0
Country group 2 4 5.6 4.2 5.8 5.5
         
2010, total  100.0  100.0  100.0  100.0
         
Non-immigrants 88.3 91.1 87.0 91.0
Immigrants and Norwegian-born with immigrant parents 11.7 8.9 13.0 9.1
Thereof:        
Country group 13 5.8 4.4 6.9 3.2
Country group 2 4 5.9 4.4 6.1 5.9
1  Unspecified sector included.
2  Public owned enterprises included.
3  EU/EFTA-countries, North America, Australia and New Zealand.
4  Eastern Europe outside the EU, Asia(Turkey incl.), Africa, South and Central America and Oceania except Australia and New Zealand.

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