Content
About the statistics
Definitions
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Name and topic
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Name: National child welfare – StatRes (discontinued)
Topic: Social conditions, welfare and crime
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Responsible division
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Division for Income and social welfare statistics
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Definitions of the main concepts and variables
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For definitions of general and principal terms in StatRes, refer to the Explanation of terms on the StatRes home page. http://www.ssb.no/stafo_statres_en/about.cgi
Own production. Own production is defined, in principle, as the sum of the costs of the input factors that the different activities use to carry out activities and produce services. These are wage costs, the purchase of goods and services and use of fixed assets. Figures concerning use of fixed assets, i.e. depreciation and imputed interests, are not available. Therefore, this element is excluded from own production. The enterprises’ costs of purchase of goods and services, which are replacements for their own production of similar services, do not enter into their own production concept. Such costs are instead classified as transfers.
Wage costs. Wage costs are defined as the total remuneration payable to the employees, including social security contributions. Reimbursements are subtracted.
Investments. The purchases of cars to children’s institutions comprise the investments in National child welfare.
Transfers. Transfers in National child welfare comprise transfers to municipalities and the private sector.
Transfers, municipalities. Transfers to municipalities are refundments of the municipalities for expenditures which exceed their own share of the expenditures.
Transfers, private sector. For the measure children’s institutions transfers comprise expenditures to procurement of bed-days from private children’s institutions.
For the measure foster homes transfers comprise procurement services from private foster homes.
For the measure Care Centres for lone juvenile asylum-seekers and refugees, transfers comprise procurement of bed-days from private children’s institutions and care centres.
Total expenditure. Total expenditure is made up of the sum of own production, transfers and investments.
Remuneration/wages to foster homes. The State pays remuneration to foster home parents. Remuneration for work is taxed as wages, and employers’ national insurance contributions are paid.
Cost coverage to foster homes. In addition to remuneration for work, foster parents also receive a supplement to cover expenses. This supplement is to cover, for example, accommodation, electricity, food, clothing, hygiene, sport, play and leisure, and household articles in addition to those needed by the child at the start of the placement.
Contracted man-years excluding long absences:
Defined as the sum of the number of full-time jobs and full-time jobs converted to full-time equivalents, excluding man-years lost due to doctor-certified sick leave and leave of absence to care for a sick child. See point 3.6 Estimation.
Education:
There are two sources that provide information on persons with health and social care qualifications. One of these is the Health Personnel Register held by the Norwegian Registration Authority for Health Personnel (SAFH). The other source is the National Education Database (NUDB). The data from these registers is combined in the register-based personnel statistics. With regard to those employed in health and social services without any health and social care qualifications, qualification details are taken from Statistics Norway’s register of the population’s level of education.
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Standard classifications
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Not relevant