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9.11 Persons in the labour force, by sex and level of education

Sex Year	persons					Percentage of total in each group
	Total	Education at primary school level	Education at the second level, second stage I	Education at the second level, second stage II	Education at the third level	I alt	Ungdomsskolenivå	Videregående skole, nivå I	Videregående skole, nivå II	Universitets- og høgskolenivå
Total
1976	1 821	620	562	358	232	64.5	54.7	67.8	73.7	81.9
1977	1 851	608	589	359	265	65.1	55.2	67.9	74.7	82.6
1978	1 888	595	602	378	278	65.9	55.4	69.3	74.1	84.0
1979	1 909	590	615	390	282	66.2	55.0	70.1	75.2	84.4
1980	1 940	576	638	406	285	67.2	54.8	71.4	77.8	84.3
1981	1 974	557	655	423	303	67.9	54.2	73.1	77.3	85.0
1982	1 995	512	631	416	297	67.9	53.2	72.7	78.3	85.6
1983	2 014	529	655	453	341	68.1	53.1	72.5	78.4	86.6
1984	2 034	515	638	473	363	68.3	52.7	72.5	78.7	87.0
1985	2 067	497	633	498	392	68.8	52.3	72.6	79.4	87.3
1986	2 128	486	632	568	403	70.4	53.6	74.3	80.0	87.6
19871	2 171	468	635	616	419	71.3	53.7	74.6	81.1	87.6
1988	2 183	447	635	630	449	71.1	52.6	74.1	80.8	87.4
1989	2 155	422	597	632	474	69.8	50.2	72.2	78.9	87.4
1990	2 142	406	576	644	492	69.2	49.2	71.5	78.5	86.4
1991	2 126	377	548	659	523	68.5	47.5	70.2	77.2	85.4
Males
1976	1 108	367	285	273	149	78.5	71.4	84.1	80.7	88.1
1977	1 119	355	299	276	168	78.8	71.0	84.3	82.5	88.6
1978	1 130	346	298	291	172	78.8	71.2	84.1	81.9	89.3
1979	1 128	340	299	292	176	78.2	69.4	83.9	81.3	90.5
1980	1 147	334	319	296	175	79.3	68.6	86.0	84.6	90.0
1981	1 157	315	329	306	183	79.3	67.6	85.5	84.9	90.6
1982	1 165	292	316	298	176	79.4	67.2	85.2	85.2	91.1
1983	1 164	305	321	314	200	78.5	65.7	83.9	84.8	91.6
1984	1 167	293	313	321	212	78.4	65.0	83.3	84.9	91.7
1985	1 174	281	299	331	234	78.1	64.0	82.0	85.0	91.5
1986	1 190	270	283	375	237	78.4	64.0	82.8	84.9	90.9
19871	1 209	256	293	397	241	78.7	63.1	83.1	85.2	91.0
1988	1 209	244	291	400	257	78.3	62.3	81.9	84.5	91.1
1989	1 197	235	271	403	269	77.2	60.0	80.0	83.4	90.7
1990	1 181	221	257	408	278	76.0	58.1	78.4	82.8	89.3
1991	1 163	209	236	413	293	74.6	56.4	75.9	80.6	88.4
Females
1976	713	252	277	85	83	50.4	40.8	56.6	57.6	72.6
1977	732	253	290	83	97	51.4	42.1	56.5	56.9	73.8
1978	759	250	304	87	105	52.9	42.3	59.1	56.4	76.6
1979	781	250	316	98	106	54.2	42.9	60.7	61.3	75.9
1980	793	242	319	111	110	55.1	42.9	61.0	64.1	76.5
1981	818	242	326	117	120	56.4	43.1	63.7	62.7	77.8
1982	830	220	315	118	121	56.5	41.7	63.4	65.1	78.7
1983	850	224	334	138	141	57.6	42.0	64.2	67.1	80.3
1984	867	222	325	152	151	58.1	42.1	64.5	68.1	81.2
1985	893	216	334	167	158	59.5	42.3	65.9	70.2	81.8
1986	938	216	349	193	167	62.3	44.5	68.6	71.9	83.3
19871	962	213	342	219	178	63.7	45.6	68.6	74.6	83.4
1988	974	203	344	229	191	63.7	44.4	68.6	74.9	82.8
1989	957	187	327	229	205	62.3	41.6	66.9	72.1	83.5
1990	961	184	320	236	214	62.4	41.6	66.8	72.1	82.9
1991	963	168	312	246	230	62.3	39.8	66.5	72.0	81.9

1	Because of changes in the questionnaire, there i a break in the timeseries between 1987 and 1988, see http://www.ssb.no/english/subjects/00/histstat/kap09.html
Source: NOS Labour Market Statistics.
More information:  http://www.ssb.no/aku/

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