The statistics are published annually, referring to the situation of the third week of November. Preliminary figures for activities in municipalities and counties are published annually in March through the KOSTRA-project.
Municipality, county and national level. Statistics on municipality and county level are published in StatBank Norway. Statistics concerning the coutry as a whole are published in Today's statistics.
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The statistics Act of June 16th. 1989, section 3-2 (Administrative registers).
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Figures are sent annually to Eurostat, WHO and OECD
The purpose of register-based statistics on employment of health care personnel is to provide infomation on the structure and development of employment among persons with a health care education. To get a broader view of the structure of the health care industry personnel with other educations, working in the health care industry, are included included. For more information on the definitions and classifications by industry please cf. Standard of Industrial Classification NOS D 383,
The statistics were first published in July 2002, presenting statistics for 2000 and 2001.
Important users of these statistics are public administration, organisations and researchers with a particular interest in the health care industry, as well as the media and the public in general. The statistics provide information on the status and development for health care personnel and can be used as a basis for decision-making, reports and prognosis.
The population in register-based statistics on health care personnel is persons with a health care education. In addition all other personnel working in the health care industry are included. The statistics also cover foreigners with short term employment in Norway, working for a Norwegian employer. The obervational unit are individuals (persons), but the statistics include all active employment per person.
Persons living in Norway with employment abroad are not included in these statistics. These persons will however be included when in figures concerning education.
Register-based employment statistics in Statistics Norway are based on individual register data from several registers. Information related to employees and employment is collected from the Register of Employees (the National Insurance Administration), the End of the Year Certificate Register and the Tax Register (the Directorate of Taxes), and payroll registers. Variables concerning the enterprises, such as industry and institutional sector, are collected from the Central Register of Establishments and Enterprises (BoF). Additional information is collected from registers about persons engaged in job creation programmes, maternity payments and cash benefits for parents (the National Insurance Administration), as well as Statistics Norways register on doctor-certified sickness absence. The definition of employment is therefore based on a number of different sources. Statistics Norway has developed a system for common utilization of these sources.
The main sources for health care education are the Register for health care personnel administered by the Directorate of Health and the Norwegian database of education (NUDB) managed by Statistics Norway.
The registerbased employment statistics on health care personnel is a full count.
Register of Health Care Personnel, administered by the Directorate of Health. This register gives an overview of all health care personnel given licence to practise their profession. Statistics Norway receives status per November for all personnel with a licence to practise. The register contains educations where a state authorization is required, and therefore does not contain information about all health care educations. People with health care education who have not applied for a licence are not counted. The register may also include people who have been granted a Norwegian licence, but who have not necessarily practised their profession in Norway.
Statistics Norway's own register of education is a supplement to the Register of Health Care Personnel. This register gives an overview of all education accomplished for all individuals settled in Norway by October 1st.
Statistics Norway receives data on changes in the employee register from the National Insurance Administration on a weekly basis.
Concerning information from the Directorate of Taxes' End of the Year Certificate Register, preliminary deduction in March is used as data source.
Information from the tax returns is available in electronic version. Statistics Norway collects statistical material from the Directorate of Taxes annually.
Variables concerning enterprises, such as the municipal location of workplace and industry are collected from the Central Register of Establishments and Enterprises, managed by Statistics Norway.
For the three most central registers concerning the production of statistics, checks and revisions follow this procedure:
The National Insurance Administration conducts an annual control of selected employers with a manual reporting of personnel in the Register of Employees . These employers receive lists over all individuals registered with an active employment. Errors are reported to the Social Security offices. Statistics Norway controls that enterprises with multiple establishments have separate numbers for each establishment and that the employees are registered at the establishment they actually work. This is important in order to ensure correct information about industry and municipal location of the workplace.
Statistics Norway controls the Register of Employees by comparing it with the End of the Year Certificate Register, the ARENA register's statistics on unemployment etc.
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Figures giving away a persons identity will not be published.
Health care education is a selection of education codes from Statistics Norway's Standard for Classification of Educations. In addition, the Register of Education for Health Care Personnel requiring authorization, administered by the Directorate of Health and Social Welfare is used to define health care educations. The statistics provide information about 33 separate educations, three specializations and three aggregated groups for small health education types. In addition there are four aggregated groups for other educations outside the health care sector.
People who have been granted a licence as health care personnel at a secondary educational level will be registered with a different education in the statistics if they have further education at university level. But for health care personnel already educated at a university, for example a nurse, this will not occur, because we have chosen to define the person as a nurse even though they have followed another basic course at university level.
An employed person is defined as those who conducted at least one hour of paid work or work as self employed in 4th. quarter each year and individuals who had such work, but who were temporarily absent dur to of illness, vacation, maternity leave etc. For employees and self-employed the register base is arranged so that the total number is decided by the number of self-employed according to Statistics Norway's Labour Force Sample Surveys. Who is considered self-employed is partly determined by whether they have employees with an active employment per 4th quarter and partly by income data from the year prior to the year of reference.
In certain contexts it is necessary to choose a main job for employees and multiple job holders. This is necessary in order to be able to distribute employed persons according to industry and place of work (municipality). As a main rule, the job with the largest number of working hours is defined as the main job.
Age is defined as years of age at the end of the year.
Contracted man-hours is estimated by measuring contracted working hour per week and comparing it to full time. Full-time is defined as 37.5 hours per week, but with reservation for certain professions, for example professions with shift work, where contracted full time work is estimated to less than 37.5 hours per week.
Contracted working hours is the number of working hours per week that the employee is obliged to work according to his work contract. Any absence from work caused by illness, holiday etc. should not be deducted from the contracted working, and overtime is not taken into account. Information about working horus in the National Insurance Administration's Register of Employees from the year 2001 registered in exact hours, while earlier the working was registered in intervals (4-19 hours, 20-29 hours or 30 hours plus per week).
The self-employed do not have contracted working hours. Instead an estimated number for mean working hours is taken from Statistic Norway's Labour Force Sample Survey. The estimate are conducted for different groups divided by sex and three different educational levels.
Sickness absence certified by a doctor. Information about sickness absence certified by a doctor is collected from the National Insurance Administration's Register of sickness absence. The percentages of sickness absence for the fourth quarter of every year are used in the adjustment of the contracted man-years. The register of sickness absence only includes employees, but it is assumed that self-employed have the same absence percentage as employees within the same educational group.
Persons outside the labour force is made up of people who are not employed nor registered as unemployed. They are classified according to other registers in the following order: government employment programmes, work rehabilitation, disability pensioners, retirement pensioners, receivers of cash-for-care, further education and the others.
The variables workplace and industry are taken from the Central Register of Establishments and Enterprises, and refers to the enterprise where the employee is working. For self-employed who are not tied to any establishment or enterprise, information about place of residence, education and self-employment activities of other family members are taken into account.
Industry
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For people defined as employees only on the basis of information from the End of the Year Certificate Register (approximately 8 per cent of the wage earners), the employment is not dated. For about half of this population, information is collected from other administrative sources which make it possible to date the employment. For the remainder, the size of the wages is taken into account when evaluating whether the person is classified as employed. There is therefore some uncertainty as to whether the employment existed in the 4th quarter.
The self-employed are identified by information from the Tax Register. Due to a long procedure of production, information from the previous year is used for the statistics. As a consequence of this delay, some people may incorrectly be classified as employed even though they terminated their employment in the previous year.
The figures for contracted man-years are less reliable for the self-employed. This is because the registers contain no data on working hours on micro level. The information therefore needs to be supplemented with data on the number of hours worked on a highly aggregated level from the Labour Force Sample Surveys. These figures also contain sampling uncertainty. The use of such data means that the differences in working hours between individuals within the groups will disappear.
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During the production of the register-based statistics for 2002, several improvements in the production routine have been made. The increase in the number of people with a health care education is partly a result of an upgrade of the Norwegian Population Register, a clearing-up of the definitions of age for foreign citizens, and the fact that ten new educations have become state authorized. The increase in the number of employed is caused by the new register-based employment statistics implemented, which implies in particular that employments with a small number of working hours now are available in the statistics.
The reason for the reduction in the number of contracted man-years is that the Register of Employees includes information about the exact working hours per week. This variable was implemented for about 70 per cent of the employees in 2001 and approximately 100 per cent in 2002. For the employees for whom we lack information either in 2000 or for a few in 2001, the exact number of hours is measured by using the average for the groups with exact working time.
The large reduction between 2000 and 2001 in the number of dispensing pharmacists and the corresponding increase in the number of pharmacists is a consequence of a change in 2001, making it possible for dispensing pharmacists to apply for an official licence as pharmacist. Both people with education as dispensing pharmacist and as cand.pharm can now apply for licence to practise as a pharmacist. In addition, the pharmacist education became state authorized as of January 2001.
The strong increase between 2001 and 2002 in the number of people educated as medical secretary, care worker, paramedic, pharmacy technician, dental secretary, dental technician, audiologist, certified prosthetist, pharmacist and clinical nutritionist is caused by the possibility to apply for a licence to practise as of January 2001.
The Division of Health Statistics in Statistics Norway publishes statistics on personnel based on data collected by questionnaire in most fields covered by public health plans. The statistics are divided into more detailed fields within the health sector (http://www.ssb.no/emner/03) than the register based statistics. Since these questionnaires are not collected on an individual level, it is not possible to show the distribution according to, for example, demographic variables. Furthermore, the statistics do not cover work for individuals with a health care education working outside the health care industry.
Most of the data from questionnaires collected by the Division of Health Statistics is published in KOSTRA information sheets. Statistics on personnel in private and public dental care in KOSTRA are taken from the register-based health care personnel statistics.
The register-based statistics for health care personnel is a special version of the register-based employment statistics covering all educational groups and industries. In addition, people with a D-number as their personal identification number in the Rental Population Register (i.e. persons not resident in Norway) are included in the statistics on health care personnel.
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Statistics on municipality and county level are published in the StatBank, while figures on national level are published in Today's statistics. More detailed statistics can be ordered.
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