Statistics Norway

Nursing and social care services

8 Recievers of respite care, personal support contact, recievers with next of kins receiving pay for caring work and user-controlled assistance. Age. 2002-2008
  2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007*1 2008*
Respite care              
Total 8 366 8 620 8 727 8 923 9 495 7 135 7 554
0-66 years 7 984 8 099 8 121 8 333 8 949 6 996 7 405
67 years and over  382  521  606  590  546  138  149
Personal support contact              
Total 20 396 21 708 22 212 23 459 25 610 23 174 24 949
0-66 years 17 468 18 775 19 103 20 146 21 890 19 904 21 224
67 years and over 2 928 2 933 3 109 3 313 3 720 3 268 3 725
Care recievers with next of kins receiving pay for caring work              
Total .. .. 7 470 7 714 8 309 8 048 8 673
0-66 years .. .. 5 819 6 009 6 493 6 324 6 941
67 years and over .. .. 1 651 1 673 1 816 1 724 1 732
User-controlled assistance              
Total 1 022 1 142 1 357 1 833 2 045 2 023 2 270
0-66 years .. .. .. 1 706 1 886 1 886 2 101
67 years and over .. .. ..  127  159  137  169
1  Break in time-series. Until 2007 the figures 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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