Statistics Norway

Employment among immigrants (register based)

10 Employees by immigrant-background, country group and economic sector. Absolute figures and in per cent. Q4 2010 and 2011
  Total Private sector 1 State sector Municipal and county sector
2010, total 2 358 000 1 551 284  271 909  534 807
         
Non-immigrants 2 083 128 1 348 919  247 822  486 387
Immigrants and Norwegian-born with immigrant parents  274 872  202 365 24 087 48 420
Of which        
Country group 12  136 925  107 771 12 027 17 127
Country group 2 3  137 947 94 594 12 060 31 293
         
2011, total 2 411 000 1 588 141  277 776  545 083
         
Non-immigrants 2 103 164 1 358 631  252 246  492 287
Immigrants and Norwegian-born with immigrant parents  307 836  229 510 25 530 52 796
Of which        
Country group 12  159 292  128 064 12 648 18 580
Country group 23  148 544  101 446 12 882 34 216
         
         
2010, total  100.0  100.0  100.0  100.0
         
Non-immigrants 88.3 87.0 91.1 91.0
Immigrants and Norwegian-born with immigrant parents 11.7 13.1 8.9 9.1
Of which        
Country group 12 5.8 7.0 4.4 3.2
Country group 2 3 5.9 6.1 4.4 5.9
         
2011, total  100.0  100.0  100.0  100.0
         
Non-immigrants 87.2 85.6 90.8 90.3
Immigrants and Norwegian-born with immigrant parents 12.8 14.5 9.2 9.7
Of which        
Country group 12 6.6 8.1 4.6 3.4
Country group 2 3 6.2 6.4 4.6 6.3
1  Public owned enterprises included.
2  EU/EFTA-countries, North America, Australia and New Zealand.
3  Eastern Europe outside the EU, Asia(Turkey incl.), Africa, South and Central America and Oceania except Australia and New Zealand.

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