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Reason for immigration and educational attainment¹²
	2018
	Numbers	Per cent
	Total	No completed education	Basic school level	Upper secondary education³	Higher education, short⁴	Higher education, long⁵
¹For many immigrants SSB has no information about their level of education. 2014 figures includes an estimated level of education for missing values for these immigrants. See About the statistics for more information.
²Very few non-Nordic immigrants resident after 1989 lacks reason for immigration. Unknown reason for immigration is therefore not included in this table.
³Includes intermediate level courses based on completed upper secondary level, but which are not accredited as tertiary education
⁴Higher education, short comprises higher education up to 4 years in duration.
⁵Higher education, long comprises higher education more than 4 years in duration.

Sex, reason for immigration and country background

Both sexes	557 541	1.7	33.6	25.9	21.2	16.6
Males	291 498	1.1	34.5	29.5	18.6	15.4
Females	266 043	2.3	32.6	21.9	24.1	17.9

Labour
Total	193 231	0.5	18.4	34.1	23.1	22.9
Europe except Turkey
Males	123 869	0.4	20.5	42.3	18.8	17.1
Females	48 011	0.3	14.9	23.1	31.1	29.5
Africa
Males	2 134	1.6	27.1	17.6	21.1	31.4
Females	697	2.2	25.7	16.9	25.0	29.3
Asia including Turkey
Males	8 814	1.1	12.8	9.3	30.9	45.3
Females	3 387	0.8	11.5	13.3	37.8	35.8
North America
Males	1 369	0.6	9.1	6.6	32.5	50.0
Females	775	:	6.1	4.3	34.3	54.7
Oceania
Males	762	:	11.3	14.6	35.3	36.6
Females	243	-	11.1	7.0	44.9	35.4
South- and Central-America
Males	1 961	0.5	14.1	14.1	23.2	47.0
Females	1 209	0.5	19.0	13.5	23.6	42.2

Family
Total	198 459	1.8	39.0	24.1	20.7	13.2
Europe except Turkey
Males	19 512	0.2	42.3	30.5	15.7	10.1
Females	51 234	0.3	25.0	27.3	23.8	22.2
Africa
Males	11 628	1.7	57.5	21.0	13.4	5.5
Females	16 389	4.8	53.7	20.7	14.8	5.0
Asia including Turkey
Males	23 033	1.5	47.4	23.8	17.2	9.1
Females	61 654	3.3	42.3	21.5	22.3	9.7
North America
Males	1 596	:	13.8	16.6	39.1	29.3
Females	1 987	0.4	10.2	12.6	40.2	35.5
Oceania
Males	371	-	11.1	27.8	40.2	19.7
Females	235	:	12.3	16.2	43.0	26.8
South- and Central-America
Males	3 151	0.8	36.5	25.2	19.5	16.4
Females	7 669	0.9	30.3	23.4	23.9	19.7

Refugee
Total	129 710	3.5	53.3	20.5	16.0	5.5
Europe except Turkey
Males	12 091	0.3	30.1	39.6	21.0	7.7
Females	11 362	1.3	29.8	35.6	23.3	8.4
Africa
Males	25 824	3.0	64.2	15.5	12.1	4.0
Females	17 289	8.2	61.5	17.7	9.6	1.8
Asia including Turkey
Males	41 740	2.3	57.0	16.4	16.9	6.4
Females	20 817	6.0	52.6	17.4	17.5	5.5
North America
Males	15	-	33.3	33.3	26.7	:
Females	12	-	33.3	:	33.3	:
Oceania
Males	:	:	:	:	:	:
Females	:	:	:	:	:	:
South- and Central-America
Males	271	:	36.5	24.7	22.5	14.0
Females	286	:	37.8	27.3	21.3	9.4

Education
Total	33 096	0.2	12.9	10.4	33.0	42.3
Europe except Turkey
Males	4 683	0.1	15.5	9.5	26.3	47.8
Females	8 791	0.2	11.9	9.0	34.1	43.7
Africa
Males	1 658	0.3	9.8	4.9	27.5	56.6
Females	1 064	0.5	13.6	10.3	30.4	42.9
Asia including Turkey
Males	4 495	0.2	6.4	7.4	29.4	55.8
Females	9 684	0.1	16.2	15.8	38.8	27.5
North America
Males	492	0.8	12.8	4.1	31.1	51.0
Females	656	:	7.5	3.4	41.3	46.3
Oceania
Males	74	-	10.8	:	25.7	60.8
Females	78	-	17.9	:	30.8	46.2
South- and Central-America
Males	571	:	10.7	4.7	19.3	63.7
Females	850	:	17.5	10.1	28.5	42.2

Other
Total	3 045	1.1	24.4	20.8	27.7	25.0
Europe except Turkey
Males	889	0.3	22.0	23.4	28.5	24.7
Females	876	0.5	22.6	19.4	25.9	30.4
Africa
Males	90	:	42.2	15.6	23.3	15.6
Females	250	4.8	54.8	18.4	13.6	6.4
Asia including Turkey
Males	276	1.4	21.4	21.4	33.3	21.0
Females	396	1.5	18.4	23.7	33.8	22.0
North America
Males	74	-	14.9	17.6	33.8	33.8
Females	76	-	7.9	15.8	38.2	38.2
Oceania
Males	16	-	:	-	37.5	50.0
Females	5	-	-	-	:	:
South- and Central-America
Males	38	-	21.1	21.1	21.1	36.8
Females	59	:	23.7	13.6	22.0	37.3

StatBank source table 11291