Table 3 Median after tax income per consumption unit. EU-scale. At constant prices (NOK 2008). 2004=100.

3 Median after tax income per consumption unit. EU-scale¹. At constant prices (NOK 2008). 2004=100.
	2004(index)	2005(index)	2006(index)	2007(index)	2008(index)	Median 2008


All ages	100	104	106	114	119	283 100
All ages, students not included	100	104	106	114	119	285 700

Families with children
Single parents	100	101	104	110	113	218 300
Couples with children aged 0-17 years	100	104	107	115	119	293 200
Children under 18 years of age	100	104	106	114	119	276 100

Receivers of social security benefits
Old-age pensioners²	100	105	108	118	124	225 100
Disability pensioners²	100	103	105	112	116	222 300
Pensioners with temporary disability benefit	100	101	102	107	109	215 200
Receivers of survivor's benefit²	100	105	107	116	122	270 600
Single pensioners, receivers of the minimum state pension³	100	102	104	111	120	153 100
Single old-age pensioners, receivers of the minimum state pension³	100	102	104	111	120	150 700
Single disability pensioners, receivers of the minimum state pension³	100	102	103	108	115	159 800
Longstanding illness⁴	100	98	99	104	107	205 900
Long-term unemployed⁵	100	99	98	102	105	172 900

Immigrants⁶ and refugees⁷
Immigrants in total	100	102	105	112	117	219 500
Immigrants or persons born in Norway with both parents of foreign origin from Asia, Africa, Latin-America, Eastern Europe and Oceania except Australia and New Zealand	100	102	105	113	119	201 500
Refugees	100	101	104	113	117	193 600

Other groups
People on social assistance⁸	100	99	101	105	108	161 900
Single people under 35 years of age⁹	100	102	104	109	113	220 100
Supplement benefits	:	:	:	:	:	148 900

¹	Consumption units (EU-scale) have been calculated by giving the first adult in household a value of 1.0, 0.5 for any additional adult (older than 16), and 0.3 for each child 0-16 years old.
²	People in households where the main income earner is defined as a pensioner by the National Insurance Service.
³	Living alone and recipient of special allowance.
⁴	People in households where the main income earner is registered with longstanding illness. Included are people in receipt of rehabilitation allowances, persons incapable of full employment but parttaking in labour market schemes, and others. Up until 2005, persons who were incapable of full employment but who were taking part in programmes initiated by the National Insurance Scheme (e.g. school and work placements), and persons who were receiving vocational rehabilitation allowances, were not included in the statistics.
⁵	People in households where the main income earner has been continuously unemployed for 6 months or more.
⁶	People in households where the main income earner is an immigrant or born in Norway with both parents of foreign origin.
⁷	People in households where the main income earner is a refugee.
⁸	People in households where the main income earner has received social assistance during the year.
⁹	Households consisting of one student are excluded from single people under 35 years of age.
Source: Income statistics for households, Statistics Norway.