Statistics Norway

Nursing and social care services

5 Users of home based services, by kind of service. 1992-2011
  1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 20071 2008 2009 2010 2011*
Users, total  146 272  142 354  144 765  152 796  159 669  162 112  163 415  171 226  161 817  167 648  174 477  174 570  177 082
Users of home help only 70 846 73 147 73 411 68 649 62 793 58 924 51 607 48 121 45 888 45 940 45 317 44 558 43 346
Users of home nursing only 25 316 21 964 22 479 27 068 37 647 44 399 51 348 56 547 58 439 62 732 66 482 67 376 70 166
Users of both home help and home nursing 50 110 47 156 48 164 54 643 59 229 58 789 60 460 66 558 57 490 58 976 62 678 62 636 63 570
Unspecified users 0 87  711 2 436 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1  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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