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Statistics about

Children’s institutions

These statistics provide figures on the publicly-owned and private children’s institutions, care centers for unaccompanied minor asylum seekers, and until 2023 Family support centers. The figures include expenditures, figures on full-time equivalents (FTEs) and bed-days in addition to sex and age of the children and minors (0-24 years) living in the institutions by the end of the year.

Updated: 27 November 2024
Next update: Not yet determined

Selected figures from this statistics

  • Children’s institutions
    Children’s institutions
    Absolute figures
    2023
    Children in institutions per 31 December1 068
    Children's institutions889
    Care centre for minors179
    Family support centers0
    Treatment days (stays) during the year379 693
    Children's institutions325 914
    Care centre for minors53 779
    Family support centers0
    Operating expenditures, institutions (NOK million)6 362.4
    Operating expenditures per treatment days16 757
    Publicly owned institutions20 104
    Owned by ideal private institutions12 300
    Owned by other private institutions15 710
    Contractual man-years, adjusted for long-term leaves5 343.8
    Publicly owned institutions2 362.0
    Owned by ideal private institutions1 021.6
    Owned by other private institutions1 960.2
    Explanation of symbols

About the statistics

The information under «About the statistics» was last updated 26 November 2024.

The statistics include all institutions qualified by the Directorate. Familiy support centres are also included, as well as care centres for minors. Municipal institutions, except in Oslo (and, until July 1. 2008, Trondheim), are not included.

Ideal institutions and other private institutions Ideal institutions are owned by organisations with an exclusively ideal purpose, and all profits are transferred back to this purpose.

Type of stay Acute stays are stays according to the Act relating to child welfare services section 4-6, 1. paragraph, section 4-6, 2. paragraph and 4-25.

Behavioural stays are stays according to sections 4-24 and 4-26.

Voluntary stays are stays according to sections 4-4, 2. paragraph and 5. paragraph.

Care stays are stays according to other sections of the Act, mainly section 4-12 and 4-8. Also including section 5A-1 (stay in a care center for minors). From 2015 section 5A-1 stay in care center for minors is separated from other care stays in a own category.

Education

Health care education is a selection of education codes from Statistics Norway's Standard for Classification of Educations. In addition, the Register of Education for Health Care Personnel requiring authorization, administered by the Directorate of Health is used to define health care educations. For those employed in the health care industry without a health care education, information about their education is collected from BU (“Befolkningens udanningsnivå”).

Contracted man-years deducted long absences

The contracted man-years are the sum of all part- and full time jobs, subtracting doctor certified absence and maternity leave. Information about sickness absence certified by a doctor is collected from the National Insurance Administration's Register of sickness absence. The percentages of sickness absence for the fourth quarter of every year are used in the adjustment of the contracted man-years.

Standard Industrial Classification, 87.901 Child welfare institutions. Region is defined according to the Directorate.

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