Statistics Norway

National child welfare and family counselling

4   Figures national family counselling service. Preliminary figures for 20051, 2
  Region North Region Middle Region West Region South Region East Total
Population, total  462 779  649 075  956 855  899 870   1 671 640   4 640 219
Gross operating expenditures, family counselling services3 34 267 32 163 45 332 45 977 98 885  256 624
Adjusted gross operating expenditures, public owned family counselling offices 25 626 10 874 16 639 14 876 71 919  139 934
Wage expenditures, public owned family counselling offices 19 525 8 258 12 678 11 594 53 630  105 685
Family counselling services cases 3 723 3 616 4 529 5 927 10 446 28 241
Family counselling services cases, public owned family counselling offices 2 895 1 117 1 709 1 993 7 741 15 455
Average waiting time per cases, family counselling services (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 .
Total time used on man-hours during the year, family counselling 11 897 16 162 18 502 23 136 42 008  111 705
Total time used on man-hours since the establishment, family counselling 15 007 24 283 26 969 31 884 58 545  156 688
Total number of sessions during the year, family counselling 8 493 11 137 15 353 16 836 30 075 81 894
Total number of sessions since the establishment, family counselling 10 776 17 022 22 561 22 847 41 759  114 965
Couple related issue main reason for enquiry 1 523 1 784 2 482 3 082 5 230 14 101
Parent-child related issue main reason for enquiry  372  307  475  535 1 031 2 720
Issue trusting to collaboration about children main reason for enquiry 1 213  999  992 1 482 2 663 7 349
Issue related to other family members or other main reason for enquiry  117  117  142  186  285  847
Individual problems main reason for enquiry  498  409  437  640 1 235 3 219
Main actions in the counselling, couple counselling 1 311 1 575 2 101 2 681 4 995 12 663
Main actions in the counselling, parents-children counselling  147  162  198  270  474 1 251
Main actions in the counselling, collaboration about children  668  674  550  924 1 503 4 319
Main actions in the counselling, counselling with the rest of the family/others 33 31 32 62  107  265
Main actions in the counselling, individual counselling 1 553 1 133 1 631 1 974 3 356 9 647
Main actions in the counselling, group treatment 11 41 17 16 11 96
Man-years, family counselling 55.0 51.6 57.5 77.7  139.5  381.3
Man-years family counselling by social workers 24.6 20.3 28.2 28.7 44.4  146.3
Man-years family counselling by psychologists 10.3 14.6 13.2 14.5 45.1 97.6
Man-years family counselling by other than social workers and psychologists 8.0 7.4 7.0 20.7 22.6 65.7
Man-years family counselling by office workers 12.1 9.3 9.1 13.8 27.5 71.8
Vacancies family counselling 2.4 4.0 3.3 1.9 2.1 13.7
Time used on lecture or course  636.0  814.0 2 022.6 1 478.3 1 426.6 6 377.3
Time used on counselling or consultation  240.8  774.5 1 121.9  929.0 1 322.7 4 388.8
Time used on group therapy 93.0  158.0  240.0  325.0  410.0 1 226.0
Time used on media information 46.7 24.5 49.4 48.8 96.7  266.0
1  Figures for 2005 are preliminary. For further information about the figures, please read About the statistics.
2  There is some missing data for some regions, please read the article for further information.
3  Gross operating expenditures are given in NOK 1 000.

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