Statistics Norway

Nursing and social care services

8 Recievers of respite care, personal support contact, recievers with next of kins receiving pay for caring work and user-controlled assistance. Age. 2002-2010 (Corrected 16 September 2011)
  2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 20071 2008 20092 2010*
Respite care                  
Total 8 366 8 620 8 727 8 923 9 495 7 160 7 574 8 044 8 122
0-66 years 7 984 8 099 8 121 8 333 8 949 7 021 7 426 7 899 7 962
67 years and over  382  521  606  590  546  138  148  145  160
Personal support contact                  
Total 20 396 21 708 22 212 23 459 25 610 23 876 25 692 28 154 28 972
0-66 years 17 468 18 775 19 103 20 146 21 890 20 283 21 589 23 702 24 157
67 years and over 2 928 2 933 3 109 3 313 3 720 3 591 4 103 4 452 4 814
Care recievers with next of kins receiving pay for caring work                  
Total .. .. 7 470 7 714 8 309 8 048 8 673 9 179 9 149
0-66 years .. .. 5 819 6 009 6 493 6 324 6 940 7 429 7 446
67 years and over .. .. 1 651 1 673 1 816 1 724 1 733 1 750 1 703
User-controlled assistance                  
Total 1 022 1 142 1 357 1 833 2 045 2 023 2 280 2 540 2 669
0-66 years .. .. .. 1 706 1 886 1 886 2 111 2 341 2 437
67 years and over .. .. ..  127  159  137  169  199  232
1  Break in time-series. Until 2007 the figures was collected by use of summary questionnaires. From 2007 the figures are collected from the IPLOS-register. Figures from 2007 and later are thus not directly comparable with figures from preceding years.
2  Figure for 2009 was corrected 16 September 2011.

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