Recipients of disability benefit
Updated: 3 July 2024
Next update: Not yet determined
| 2023 | ||
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| Recipients of disability benefit | Recipients of disability benefit, per cent of population | |
| Both sexes | 380 583 | 10.6 |
| Males | 155 842 | 8.5 |
| Females | 224 741 | 12.8 |
| 18-24 years | 8 266 | 1.8 |
| 25-34 years | 33 019 | 4.3 |
| 35-44 years | 50 325 | 6.8 |
| 45-54 years | 90 160 | 12.2 |
| 55-61 years | 99 116 | 20.0 |
| 62-67 years | 99 697 | 27.0 |
| New recipients of disability benefit | 24 067 | 0.7 |
Selected tables and charts from this statistics
- Recipients of disability benefit by sex, age and education levelDownload table as ...Recipients of disability benefit by sex, age and education level
2023 Recipients of disability benefit Recipients of disability benefit, per cent of population Both sexes Males Females Both sexes Males Females 18-67 years Total 380 583 155 842 224 741 10.6 8.5 12.8 Basic school level 167 897 78 029 89 868 24.1 20.1 29.2 Upper secondary education 140 506 56 426 84 080 10.8 7.5 15.3 Higher education 64 540 17 458 47 082 4.6 3.0 5.7 Unknown or no completed education 7 640 3 929 3 711 4.4 4.0 4.9 18-24 years Total 8 266 4 857 3 409 1.8 2.0 1.5 Basic school level 7 748 4 601 3 147 4.9 5.1 4.8 Upper secondary education 353 163 190 0.2 0.1 0.2 Higher education 28 14 14 0.0 0.0 0.0 Unknown or no completed education 137 79 58 0.8 1.0 0.7 25-34 years Total 33 019 15 970 17 049 4.3 4.1 4.5 Basic school level 23 775 12 440 11 335 18.7 16.4 22.1 Upper secondary education 5 980 2 243 3 737 2.8 1.6 4.9 Higher education 2 001 519 1 482 0.5 0.3 0.7 Unknown or no completed education 1 263 768 495 2.3 2.6 1.9 35-44 years Total 50 325 20 938 29 387 6.8 5.5 8.1 Basic school level 26 324 13 286 13 038 21.2 18.3 25.1 Upper secondary education 14 944 5 353 9 591 6.9 4.0 11.2 Higher education 8 267 1 882 6 385 2.4 1.3 3.1 Unknown or no completed education 790 417 373 1.5 1.3 1.9 45-54 years Total 90 160 34 283 55 877 12.2 9.1 15.4 Basic school level 33 475 15 248 18 227 31.2 26.0 37.3 Upper secondary education 36 557 13 972 22 585 12.9 8.5 19.1 Higher education 18 730 4 380 14 350 5.9 3.3 7.9 Unknown or no completed education 1 398 683 715 4.5 3.6 5.9 55-61 years Total 99 116 39 309 59 807 20.0 15.6 24.5 Basic school level 38 408 16 760 21 648 40.0 33.2 47.5 Upper secondary education 40 448 16 358 24 090 18.9 13.8 25.1 Higher education 18 176 5 175 13 001 10.5 6.7 13.5 Unknown or no completed education 2 084 1 016 1 068 16.6 14.7 18.8 62-67 years Total 99 697 40 485 59 212 27.0 21.9 32.2 Basic school level 38 167 15 694 22 473 45.6 39.5 51.2 Upper secondary education 42 224 18 337 23 887 26.0 20.7 32.5 Higher education 17 338 5 488 11 850 15.0 10.3 19.0 Unknown or no completed education 1 968 966 1 002 26.7 27.1 26.3 Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Recipients of disability benefit by sex, age and country backgroundDownload table as ...Recipients of disability benefit by sex, age and country background
2023 Recipients of disability benefit Recipients of disability benefit, per cent of population Both sexes Males Females Both sexes Males Females 18-67 years Immigrants, total 47 492 22 118 25 374 6.0 5.5 6.6 Nordic countries except Norway, EU/EFTA, UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand 9 978 4 565 5 413 3.0 2.4 3.9 Europe except EU/EFTA/UK, Africa, Asia, America except USA and Canada, Oceania except Australia and New Zealand, polar regions 37 514 17 553 19 961 8.2 8.3 8.2 The rest of the population 333 091 133 724 199 367 11.9 9.4 14.5 18-24 years Immigrants, total 692 448 244 1.0 1.3 0.8 Nordic countries except Norway, EU/EFTA, UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand 200 129 71 0.8 1.0 0.6 Europe except EU/EFTA/UK, Africa, Asia, America except USA and Canada, Oceania except Australia and New Zealand, polar regions 492 319 173 1.2 1.4 0.9 The rest of the population 7 574 4 409 3 165 1.9 2.2 1.6 25-34 years Immigrants, total 2 138 1 270 868 1.2 1.4 1.0 Nordic countries except Norway, EU/EFTA, UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand 474 232 242 0.6 0.6 0.7 Europe except EU/EFTA/UK, Africa, Asia, America except USA and Canada, Oceania except Australia and New Zealand, polar regions 1 664 1 038 626 1.6 2.1 1.1 The rest of the population 30 881 14 700 16 181 5.3 4.9 5.7 35-44 years Immigrants, total 5 625 2 622 3 003 2.3 2.1 2.5 Nordic countries except Norway, EU/EFTA, UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand 1 136 448 688 1.1 0.7 1.6 Europe except EU/EFTA/UK, Africa, Asia, America except USA and Canada, Oceania except Australia and New Zealand, polar regions 4 489 2 174 2 315 3.2 3.5 3.0 The rest of the population 44 700 18 316 26 384 8.9 7.1 10.8 45-54 years Immigrants, total 12 751 5 339 7 412 7.3 5.9 8.8 Nordic countries except Norway, EU/EFTA, UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand 2 407 998 1 409 3.1 2.0 4.8 Europe except EU/EFTA/UK, Africa, Asia, America except USA and Canada, Oceania except Australia and New Zealand, polar regions 10 344 4 341 6 003 10.8 10.4 11.0 The rest of the population 77 409 28 944 48 465 13.7 10.1 17.4 55-61 years Immigrants, total 14 061 6 487 7 574 17.7 15.4 20.3 Nordic countries except Norway, EU/EFTA, UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand 2 770 1 262 1 508 8.2 6.1 11.3 Europe except EU/EFTA/UK, Africa, Asia, America except USA and Canada, Oceania except Australia and New Zealand, polar regions 11 291 5 225 6 066 24.8 24.3 25.2 The rest of the population 85 055 32 822 52 233 20.4 15.6 25.3 62-67 years Immigrants, total 12 225 5 952 6 273 27.9 26.0 29.8 Nordic countries except Norway, EU/EFTA, UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand 2 991 1 496 1 495 16.6 14.1 20.2 Europe except EU/EFTA/UK, Africa, Asia, America except USA and Canada, Oceania except Australia and New Zealand, polar regions 9 234 4 456 4 778 35.7 36.3 35.1 The rest of the population 87 472 34 533 52 939 26.9 21.3 32.5 Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Recipients of disability benefits by sex, age and disability degreeDownload table as ...Recipients of disability benefits by sex, age and disability degree
2023 Recipients of disability benefit Recipients of disability benefit (per cent) Both sexes Males Females Both sexes Males Females 18-67 years All recipients of disability benefit 380 583 155 842 224 741 100.0 100.0 100.0 0-50 per cent disability 25 231 6 145 19 086 6.6 3.9 8.5 51-99 per cent disability 35 392 11 965 23 427 9.3 7.7 10.4 100 per cent disability 319 960 137 732 182 228 84.1 88.4 81.1 18-34 years All recipients of disability benefit 41 285 20 827 20 458 100.0 100.0 100.0 0-50 per cent disability 943 270 673 2.3 1.3 3.3 51-99 per cent disability 2 055 690 1 365 5.0 3.3 6.7 100 per cent disability 38 287 19 867 18 420 92.7 95.4 90.0 35-44 years All recipients of disability benefit 50 325 20 938 29 387 100.0 100.0 100.0 0-50 per cent disability 3 050 666 2 384 6.1 3.2 8.1 51-99 per cent disability 4 768 1 295 3 473 9.5 6.2 11.8 100 per cent disability 42 507 18 977 23 530 84.5 90.6 80.1 45-54 years All recipients of disability benefit 90 160 34 283 55 877 100.0 100.0 100.0 0-50 per cent disability 7 240 1 536 5 704 8.0 4.5 10.2 51-99 per cent disability 9 954 2 927 7 027 11.0 8.5 12.6 100 per cent disability 72 966 29 820 43 146 80.9 87.0 77.2 55-61 years All recipients of disability benefit 99 116 39 309 59 807 100.0 100.0 100.0 0-50 per cent disability 8 087 2 048 6 039 8.2 5.2 10.1 51-99 per cent disability 10 457 3 734 6 723 10.6 9.5 11.2 100 per cent disability 80 572 33 527 47 045 81.3 85.3 78.7 62-67 years All recipients of disability benefit 99 697 40 485 59 212 100.0 100.0 100.0 0-50 per cent disability 5 911 1 625 4 286 5.9 4.0 7.2 51-99 per cent disability 8 158 3 319 4 839 8.2 8.2 8.2 100 per cent disability 85 628 35 541 50 087 85.9 87.8 84.6 Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - New recipients of disability benefit by sex and ageDownload table as ...New recipients of disability benefit by sex and age
2023 New recipients of disability benefit New recipients of disability benefit, per cent of population Both sexes Males Females Both sexes Males Females 18-67 years 24 067 9 939 14 128 0.7 0.5 0.8 18-19 years 876 540 336 0.7 0.8 0.5 20-24 years 960 492 468 0.3 0.3 0.3 25-34 years 3 164 1 239 1 925 0.4 0.3 0.5 35-44 years 4 000 1 421 2 579 0.5 0.4 0.7 45-54 years 5 762 2 161 3 601 0.8 0.6 1.0 55-61 years 5 684 2 438 3 246 1.1 1.0 1.3 62-67 years 3 621 1 648 1 973 1.0 0.9 1.1 Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Recipients of disability benefit by sex, age and work-intensityDownload table as ...Recipients of disability benefit by sex, age and work-intensity
2023 Recipients of disability benefit Recipients of disability benefit (per cent) Both sexes Males Females Both sexes Males Females 18-67 years All intensity levels 380 583 155 842 224 741 100.0 100.0 100.0 None 285 330 121 410 163 920 75.0 77.9 72.9 Low 24 117 10 295 13 822 6.3 6.6 6.2 HIgh 15 400 6 112 9 288 4.0 3.9 4.1 Full 55 736 18 025 37 711 14.6 11.6 16.8 18-24 years All intensity levels 8 266 4 857 3 409 100.0 100.0 100.0 None 6 402 3 724 2 678 77.4 76.7 78.6 Low 592 347 245 7.2 7.1 7.2 HIgh 479 283 196 5.8 5.8 5.7 Full 793 503 290 9.6 10.4 8.5 25-34 years All intensity levels 33 019 15 970 17 049 100.0 100.0 100.0 None 24 435 11 890 12 545 74.0 74.5 73.6 Low 2 387 1 087 1 300 7.2 6.8 7.6 HIgh 1 842 910 932 5.6 5.7 5.5 Full 4 355 2 083 2 272 13.2 13.0 13.3 35-44 years All intensity levels 50 325 20 938 29 387 100.0 100.0 100.0 None 36 389 16 050 20 339 72.3 76.7 69.2 Low 3 460 1 387 2 073 6.9 6.6 7.1 HIgh 2 487 931 1 556 4.9 4.4 5.3 Full 7 989 2 570 5 419 15.9 12.3 18.4 45-54 years All intensity levels 90 160 34 283 55 877 100.0 100.0 100.0 None 63 396 25 911 37 485 70.3 75.6 67.1 Low 6 187 2 379 3 808 6.9 6.9 6.8 HIgh 4 149 1 457 2 692 4.6 4.2 4.8 Full 16 428 4 536 11 892 18.2 13.2 21.3 55-61 years All intensity levels 99 116 39 309 59 807 100.0 100.0 100.0 None 72 559 30 153 42 406 73.2 76.7 70.9 Low 6 280 2 674 3 606 6.3 6.8 6.0 HIgh 3 638 1 428 2 210 3.7 3.6 3.7 Full 16 639 5 054 11 585 16.8 12.9 19.4 62-67 years All intensity levels 99 697 40 485 59 212 100.0 100.0 100.0 None 82 149 33 682 48 467 82.4 83.2 81.9 Low 5 211 2 421 2 790 5.2 6.0 4.7 HIgh 2 805 1 103 1 702 2.8 2.7 2.9 Full 9 532 3 279 6 253 9.6 8.1 10.6 Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ...
More figures from this statistics
- 11695: Recipients of disability benefit, by sex (municipalities, counties)
- 11715: Recipients of disability benefit, by age (municipalities, counties)
- 11719: Recipients of disability benefit, by sex, education level and disability degree (counties)
- 11737: New recipients of disability benefit, by sex and education level (counties)
- 11856: Recipients, by sex, disability degree and work-intensity
About the statistics
Statistics on the number and share of disability benefit recipients in the population aged 18-67 years. Breakdowns by gender, age, education and country background. Also an overview of new recipients, degree of disability and the recipients’ work intensity. Numbers for municipalities, counties and the whole country.
The information under «About the statistics» was last updated 28 June 2023.
Resident. The statistics cover persons who were registered in the Central Population Register as resident in Norway as of 31 December. The Act of Population Registration of 16 January 1970 (with subsequent amendments) and associated regulations from 1994 set out the criteria for classification as a resident in Norway. The total number of residents in an area is also referred to as the population.
Information on place of residence, gender and age are retrieved from the Central Population Register. Information on place of residence relates to the end of the statistical year, and information on age also refers to the end of the year.
Non-Resident. Persons who are noe registerede as residents as of 31 December, either dead or living abroad.
Disability benefit. Disability benefit under the National Insurance Scheme is intended to serve as a safety net for those who are unable to work due to ill health. Under new regulations introduced as part of the disability benefit reform on 1 January 2015, the benefit is calculated as 66% of earlier income, with an upward limited of 6G (G = the basic amount in the National Insurance Scheme). The basis for the calculation is the average income earned in the best three of the last five years of employment prior to the disability occurring. Disability benefit is taxed as normal income from work. Only members of the National Insurance Scheme can qualify for disability benefit, i.e. residents of Norway. There are also a number of other conditions that must be met:
- Applicants must have been a member of the National Insurance Scheme for at least three years prior to the disability occurring. Exceptions are made here for young disabled people and refugees, as well as persons from countries with whom Norway has a social security agreement. Periods of service in some international organisations and such like are also disregarded.
- Recipients must be resident in order to continue receiving disability benefit. Some exceptions also apply here; for those who have been a resident for at least 20 years after the age of 16 before the disability occurred, for those who have accrued at least 3 years of income/occupational pension and for those who reside in a country with whom Norway has a social security agreement (see textbox).
- In order to be eligible for disability benefit, applicants must be at least 18 years of age, and they can start receiving the benefit the month after they turn 18. Disability benefit also ends at the age of 67. In practice, recipients will go over to the retirement pension the month following their 67th birthday.
- It is also a requirement that appropriate treatment has been undertaken with a view to improving the capacity to work.
- In order to receive disability benefit, applicants must have a permanent injury, illness or condition. It is not the severity of the injury or the illness itself that is the determining factor; the criterion is that the capacity to work is reduced by at least 50%. Thus, in principle, no one should have graded (partial) disability benefit below 50%, however this does occur as a result of certain special rules. For example, the degree of disability may be set at 30% where the disability is due to occupational injury. Following a period of 40% work assessment allowance, the degree of disability may be set at 40% and employment of 60%.
Disability benefit generally continues until the age of 67 (NAV cannot re-assess the recipient unless it is apparent that their health has improved). Under the new rules introduced on 1 January 2015, recipients can earn up to 40% of G each year without any reductions being made to their disability benefit. The benefit will be reduced for recipients who have income from work that exceeds this amount. Note that capital income is not subject to this rule, which means that recipients can have unlimited capital income without this affecting their benefit. Recipients who have income from work of more than 40% of G, will have their benefit reduced according to specific rules, up to an income of over 85% of previous income, which is the cut-off point for terminating disability benefit. However, it is important here to note that the actual degree of disability, the right to receive disability benefit, does not change even if recipients also have high earnings; it is only the actual payment that is affected.
For more information on the regulations for disability benefit, see www.nav.no (https://www.nav.no/no/Person/Pensjon/Uforetrygd)
Disability benefit recipients are persons who receive a positive decision on disability benefit fromthe National Insurance Scheme that is applicable to at least one month during the year. The definition also covers persons with a positive decision who have not actually received payment of the benefit. The vast majority of the tables in the statistics only include disability benefit recipients who are resident (see definition). Two tables also include disability benefit recipients who are not resident, and a distinction is made here between residents and non-residents. Recipients of disability payments from other schemes, such as private insurance or pension funds, are only included if they also have a positive decision on disability benefit from the National Insurance Scheme. Note that this definition of disability benefit recipients differs somewhat from the definition used in the statistics from the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV), and that the figures will be different to those published there. See the section Coherence with other statistics for more information and links to NAV.
New disability benefit recipients are persons with a decision on disability benefit in month m during the year, but without a decision in month m-1. In cases where m represents January, m-1 will represent December in the preceding year.
Young disability benefit recipients are persons aged 18–29 receiving disability benefit. This group should not be confused with persons who are granted disability benefit under the regulations for young people with a reduced capacity to work, which require the impairment to have occurred before the age of 26.
Work intensity is a measure of the degree of employment as a wage earner whilst receiving disability benefit. The measurement requires receipt of disability benefit and employment as a wage earner to have occurred in the same month, and is calculated as ‘the number of months in which income from work and disability benefit is received / the number of months that disability benefit is received’. The results are shown as None intensity (no months where both conditions occur), Low intensity (employed for at least one but less than half of the months when disability benefit was received), High intensity (employed for more than half but not all months when disability benefit was received) and Full intensity (employed in all months when disability benefit was received).
Wage earners are defined as persons who performed paid work, with compensation in the form of wages or similar, for at least one hour in the reference week, as well as persons who had such work but were temporarily absent due to illness, holiday leave, paid leave or similar. Persons undertaking military or civilian national service are considered to be in employment. Persons on government employment initiatives who receive wages from an employer are also classified as employees. This follows the recommendations of the International Labour Organization (ILO). Statistics Norway’s statistics use the terms ‘employee’ and ‘wage earners’ interchangeably. Note that the self-employed are not therefore measured in terms of work intensity in these statistics.
See also About the statistics at http://www.ssb.no/arbeid-og-lonn/statistikker/arblonn/kvartal
At-risk-of poverty (EU-scale). At-risk-of poverty thresholds are set as 50 and 60 per cent of median income after tax per consumption unit in the entire population.
For definitions of income per consumption unit and Consumpion units calculated according to the EU-scale, see About the statistics under http://www.ssb.no/en/ifhus
Average income account. The composition of total income for persons and after-tax income by selected income components, as well as median after-tax income and median household equivalent income (EU-scale). For definitions of income components and household equivalent income, see About the statistics under http://www.ssb.no/en/ifhus
Degree of disability shows the disability benefit recipient’s calculated degree of disability as 0–50 per cent, 51–99 per cent or 100 per cent. Most disability benefit recipients’ degree of disability will not change during the course of a year, but in order to allow for cases where this does happen, we choose the highest registered degree of disability in tables that use the degree of disability classification (see also Disability benefit). The calculated degree of disability can vary from the degree of payment, since this also depends on income in addition to disability benefit.
Immigrants are persons born abroad to two foreign-born parents and four foreign-born grandparents. Country of birth is normally the mother’s country of residence at the time of the person’s birth.
EU/EEA, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand include immigrants with the following countries of birth: Denmark, Greenland, Finland, Faroe Islands, Iceland, Sweden, Belgium, Bulgaria, Andorra, Estonia, France, Gibraltar, Greece, Ireland, Croatia, Italy, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Lithuania, Spain, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Germany, Slovenia, Hungary, Austria, Vatican City, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Canada, USA, Australia and New Zealand.
Asia, Africa, Latin America, Oceania, except Australia and New Zealand and Europe except EU/EEA include immigrants born in the following: Albania, Belarus, Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Asia, Africa, America excluding USA and Canada and Oceania excluding Australia and New Zealand. Persons who were stateless at birth and with an unknown country of birth are also included.
Data on education relates to 1 October in the statistical year. In these statistics, a variant of the Classification of education is used, where the highest completed education is classified as follows: http://www.ssb.no/en/klass/klassifikasjoner/36/varianter/843
The Norwegian Standard Classification of Education 2016 forms the basis for this classification:
http://www.ssb.no/en/klass/klassifikasjoner/36
The classification of municipalities is in line with the list of municipalities as of 31 December in the relevant year.
Classification of municipalities: https://www.ssb.no/en/klass/klassifikasjoner/131
Name: Recipients of disability benefit
Topic: Social conditions, welfare and crime
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Most of the statistics are published at national level, but some are also published for counties and municipalities.
Annual statistics. The census period is a full calendar year.
Publishing dates: see the statistics calendar.
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Disability benefit under the National Insurance Scheme is an extensive welfare benefit both in terms of the number of recipients and costs. The purpose of the statistics is to provide a description of persons who have received a positive decision on disability benefit from the National Insurance Scheme, as well as certain identifiers associated with degree of disability and combinations of disability benefit and employment. Developments are followed over time through annual publications of the statistics. The statistics also aim to meet the need for municipality figures on the number and percentage of recipients.
Key users are various ministries and directorates, local and county authorities, as well as research and investigation communities. The general public and the media are also key users of these statistics, which provide valuable information for public planning, education and public debate on work, health and the welfare state.
No external users have access to statistics before they are released at 8 a.m. on ssb.no after at least three months’ advance notice in the release calendar. This is one of the most important principles in Statistics Norway for ensuring the equal treatment of users.
NAV’s statistics on disability benefit, https://www.nav.no/no/nav-og-samfunn/statistikk/aap-nedsatt-arbeidsevne-og-uforetrygd-statistikk
NAV publishes quarterly statistics on the number of people receiving disability benefit. NAV’s statistics show how many people received disability benefit in a given month. Much of the source data for Statistics Norway’s statistics on disability benefit recipients is retrieved from NAV, and these statistics are also used by NAV. Differences in the measurement period and the definition of disability benefit recipients mean that there are some discrepancies between NAV’s statistics and Statistics Norway’s statistics (see Definitions, Definitions of the main concepts and variables). In practice, Statistics Norway’s statistics will cover more recipients than NAV’s statistics because we also include those with a positive decision who have not received payment, and because we count the number of recipients throughout the year.
Disability benefit recipients are also included as a group in existing income statistics (see, for example, table 10503 in StatBank, https://www.ssb.no/en/statbank), where the income from disability benefit over a year is aggregated.
Income statistics http://www.ssb.no/en/inntekt-og-forbruk
The sources used for the register-based employment statistics are also the basis for tables on combinations of disability benefit and employment in these statistics. For further details of register-based employment, see Employment, register-based, https://www.ssb.no/en/arbeid-og-lonn/statistikker/regsys
For statistics on the population’s level of education, see:
Education, https://www.ssb.no/en/utdanning
For statistics on immigrants, see:
Immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents, https://www.ssb.no/en/befolkning/statistikker/innvbef
The statistics are developed, produced and disseminated pursuant to Act no. 32 of 21 June 2019 relating to official statistics and Statistics Norway (the Statistics Act).
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Applies to persons registered with a positive decision on disability benefit during a calendar year. One of the main qualifying conditions for disability benefit is being registered as resident at the end of the relevant year. For a definition of resident in Norway, see Definitions, Definitions of the main concepts and variables.
Data on benefits and pensions is retrieved from NAV. The information is obtained from NAV’s case processing system PESYS. See also information from NAV.
The information about employment is retrieved from the data source for register-based employment, ‘a-ordningen’: https://www.ssb.no/en/arbeid-og-lonn/statistikker/regsys
A-ordningen is a coordinated digital collection of data on employment, income and tax deductions from the Norwegian Tax Administration, NAV and Statistics Norway. The scheme was introduced in 2015. Further details of the scheme are available at www.altinn.no/a-ordningen.
Data on income for is collected from the Income and wealth statistics for households. Income data is received by linking different administrative registers and statistical data sources for the whole population as of 31st of December of the income year. Income and biographical data is collected from the following sources:
- Data from tax returns (wages and salaries, self-employment income, pensions etc.)
- The Tax Register (taxes)
- The a-ordning (unemployment benefit, various tax-free transfers)
- Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (family allowances, basic and additional amounts, cash benefit etc.)
- KOSTRA (social assistance)
- State Educational Loan Fund (loans to students, scholarships)
See http://www.ssb.no/en/ifhus for more information on data sources
Data on highest completed education is retrieved from the National Education Database (NUDB; http://www.ssb.no/a/metadata/om_datasamlinger/nudb/nudb.html)
Data on gender, age, place of residence, immigrant category and reason for immigration is retrieved from various population statistics. See About the statistics, Production, Data sources and sampling for the following:
Population and population changes: https://www.ssb.no/en/befolkning/statistikker/folkemengde
Immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents: https://www.ssb.no/en/befolkning/statistikker/innvbef
Immigrants by reason for immigration: https://www.ssb.no/en/befolkning/statistikker/innvgrunn
Statistics Norway receives annual personal data from NAV on receipt of benefits and pensions administered by NAV. The data contains monthly information about each individual, and Statistics Norway adapts the annual data for use in the statistics.
Editing is defined here as checking, examining and amending data.
See also About the statistics, Production, Collection of data, editing and estimations for statistics listed under Data sources and sampling.
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Interviewers and everyone who works at Statistics Norway have a duty of confidentiality. Statistics Norway has its own data protection officer.
Statistics Norway does not publish figures where there is a risk of identifying individual data about persons.
The rounding up/down method is used in these statistics to ensure this. One of the aims of the statistics on disability benefit is to provide statistics with combinations of identifiers, as well as for small geographical areas. For reasons of privacy, therefore, it is necessary in many tables to ensure that combinations of variable values that only appear once or twice are not identifiable in tables. In table matrices, all 1s and 2s at the most detailed level for each are replaced with a 0 or 3. The numbers 0 and 3 also naturally occur, and the statistics must not show any difference between the two types of 0 and 3. Replacement is done in a way that ensures minimal effect on the figures that can be retrieved at a higher aggregated level. However, minor deviations from the original figures will, nevertheless, occur. These deviations will generally be very small and will not impair the utility value of the statistics. When the same table is created on the basis of two different matrices, small discrepancies between the tables may also occur.
More information can be found on Statistics Norway’s website under Methods in official statistics, in the ‘Confidentiality’ section.
This statistics dates back to 2015, and methods for production of the statistics have been the same throughout the entire period.
Some minor deviations from original figures can occur due to rounding up/down, see Confidentiality.
Data on employment is retrieved from a-ordningen. The quality in the a-ordningen is good, but errors and omissions may still occur in the data. For more details, see the section on sources of error in About the statistics for the register-based employment statistics: https://www.ssb.no/en/arbeid-og-lonn/statistikker/regsys, or About the statistics for Number of employments: https://www.ssb.no/en/arbeid-og-lonn/statistikker/regsys
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