Statistics Norway

National child welfare and family counselling

3   Key figures national family counselling service. Preliminary figures for 20051, 2
  Region North Region Middle Region West Region South Region East
Distribution of expenditures          
Gross operating expenditures, family counselling service, per capita 74 50 47 51 59
           
Coverage          
Family counselling service cases 3 723 3 616 4 529 5 927 10 446
Family counselling service cases, public family counselling offices 2 895 1 117 1 709 1 993 7 741
Family counselling service cases, per 1 000 inhabitants 8.0 5.6 4.7 6.6 6.2
Man-years, family counselling service 55.0 51.6 57.5 77.7  139.5
[Man-years per 10 000 inhabitants 1.2 0.8 0.6 0.9 0.8
Family counselling services cases per man-year 67.6 70.1 78.8 76.3 74.9
           
Productivity          
Gross operating expenditures per case, family counselling service 9 204 8 895 10 009 7 757 9 466
Adjusted gross operating expenditures per case, public family counselling offices 25 626 10 874 16 639 14 876 71 919
Wages per family counselling cases, public family counselling offices 6 744 7 393 7 418 5 817 6 928
           
Detailed service indicators          
Average waiting time per case, family counselling service (days) 17.7 31.5 31.2 22.7 26.5
Average duration per family counselling case (days) 75.6  145.7  124.2  109.7  118.7
Average number of sessions per family counselling case during the year 2.3 3.1 3.4 2.8 2.9
Average number of sessions per family counselling case since the establishment 2.9 4.7 5.0 3.9 4.0
Average man-hours per case during the year 3.2 4.5 4.1 3.9 4.0
Average man-hours per case since the establishment 4.0 6.7 6.0 5.4 5.6
1  Figures for 2005 are preliminary.
2  There is some missing data for some regions, please read the article for further information.

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