Statistics Norway

Nursing and social care services

5 Users of home based services, by kind of service. 1992-2008
  1992 1993 1994 19951 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007*2 2008*
Users, total  146 272       142 623       142 354       145 249       144 765       149 026       152 796       157 396       159 669       161 169       162 112       161 094       163 415       164 623       171 226       161 817       167 442
Users of both home help and home nursing 50 110 48 656 47 156 45 228 48 164 51 143 54 643 57 521 59 229 59 095 58 789 59 896 60 460 62 119 66 558 57 490 58 971
Users of home nursing only 25 316 24 538 21 964 19 982 22 479 23 858 27 068 33 211 37 647 40 327 44 399 46 529 51 348 54 491 56 547 58 439 62 529
Users of home help only 70 846 69 429 73 147 68 784 73 411 72 653 68 649 64 944 62 793 61 747 58 924 54 669 51 607 48 013 48 121 45 888 45 942
Unspecified users 0 0 87 11 255  711 1 372 2 436 1 720 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1  10 720 persons receiving "other services" and 535 users of home nursery and/or home help were not specified, and are as from 2003 included in the total.
2  Break in time-series. Until 2007 the number of man-years was collected by use of summary questionnaires. From 2007 the figures are collected from the IPLOS-register. Figures from 2007 and later are thus not directly comparable with figures from preceding years.

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