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. 2002-2009
  2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 20071 2008 2009*
Respite care                
Total 8 366 8 620 8 727 8 923 9 495 7 160 7 574 8 043
0-66 years 7 984 8 099 8 121 8 333 8 949 7 021 7 426 7 896
67 years and over  382  521  606  590  546  138  148  147
Personal support contact                
Total 20 396 21 708 22 212 23 459 25 610 23 876 25 692 28 141
0-66 years 17 468 18 775 19 103 20 146 21 890 20 283 21 589 23 684
67 years and over 2 928 2 933 3 109 3 313 3 720 3 591 4 103 4 457
Care recievers with next of kins receiving pay for caring work                
Total .. .. 7 470 7 714 8 309 8 048 8 673 9 121
0-66 years .. .. 5 819 6 009 6 493 6 324 6 940 7 363
67 years and over .. .. 1 651 1 673 1 816 1 724 1 733 1 758
User-controlled assistance                
Total 1 022 1 142 1 357 1 833 2 045 2 023 2 280 2 535
0-66 years .. .. .. 1 706 1 886 1 886 2 111 2 340
67 years and over .. .. ..  127  159  137  169  195
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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