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Higher share of children in kindergarten
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The purpose of the statistics is to provide information about the status and changes in numbers of kindergartens, as well as employees in kindergartens.

Kindergartens, 2016

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Higher share of children in kindergarten

In 2016, 91 per cent of all children aged 1-5 attended kindergarten.

Main figures - KindergartensPublished 21 March 2017
2016Difference from last yearDifference last 5 years
Corrected 24 April 2017.
Number of children in kindergarten282 649-959-88
Percentage of children 1-5 years91.00.61.4
Percentage of children 1-2 years82.01.42.5
Percentage of children 3-5 years96.80.20.3
 
Number of kindergartens5 980-107-489
Percentage of public kindergartens4700
 
Employees93 952-225 129
Percentage of employees to primary functions81.8-0.1-2.4
Percentage of directors and educational leaders with pre-school teacher education91.3-0.56.3

Source: Statistics Norway

Figure 1. Percentage of children age 1-5 in kindergarten

Percentage of children age 1-5 in kindergarten
200062.0
200163.3
200265.9
200369.1
200472.2
200576.2
200680.4
200784.3
200887.2
200988.5
201089.3
201189.7
201290.1
201390.0
201490.2
201590.4
201691.0

Figure 2. Children from linguistic and cultural minorities in kindergarten, as a percentage of all children in kindergarten age 1-5

200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016
Children from linguistic and cultural minorities in kindergarten, as a percentage of all children in kindergarten age 1-56.26.77.68.59.39.910.812.013.214.415.316.4
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In total, 282 600 children attended kindergarten at the end of 2016; a decrease of 959 children from 2015. The proportion of children aged 1-5 who attended kindergarten in 2016 was 91 per cent, which is an increase of 0.6 percentage points compared with 2015. About 82 per cent of children aged 1-2 and 97 per cent of children aged 3-5 attended kindergarten in 2016.

Growing number of children from linguistic and cultural minorities

In 2016, there were 46 000 children from linguistic and cultural minorities in kindergarten; an increase of seven per cent from 2015.

Nine per cent of employees were men

In 2016, nine per cent of employees in primary functions were men, which is the same as the previous year. There were 3 300 male assistants in 2016, which was 11.5 per cent of all assistants in kindergartens. Eight per cent of all educational leaders and eight per cent of all leaders in kindergartens were male.

Employees’ educational background

Ninety-one per cent of all directors and educational leaders had approved pre-school teacher education in 2016. Due to changes in the collection of educational background that were introduced in 2016, the figures are not directly comparable with previous years.