Statistics Norway

National child welfare and family counselling

4   Figures national family counselling service. Figures for 20061
  20062
  Total Region North Region Middle Region West Region South Region East
Population, total 4 681 134  462 237  653 290  967 471  906 090 1 692 046
Gross operating expenditures, family counselling services3  279 430 37 322 37 851 50 936 51 228  102 093
Adjusted gross operating expenditures, public owned family counselling offices  155 541 27 965 12 824 19 646 17 732 77 374
Wage expenditures, public owned family counselling offices  113 153 20 655 8 907 14 225 12 948 56 418
             
Family counselling services cases 27 896 3 458 3 798 4 410 5 779 10 451
Family counselling services cases, public owned family counselling offices 15 113 2 535 1 157 1 532 1 924 7 965
Average waiting time per cases, family counselling services 26.2 19.6 31.3 33.4 23.9 24.8
Average duration per family counselling case (days)  114.6 85.3  146.8  128.9  110.3  111.4
Average number of sessions per family counselling case during the year 2.9 2.3 3.0 3.3 2.7 2.9
Average number of sessions per family counselling case since the establishment 4.1 2.9 4.8 5.1 3.8 4.1
Average man-hours per case during the year 3.9 3.3 4.3 4.1 3.8 4.0
Average man-hours per case since the establishment 5.6 4.2 6.9 6.2 5.2 5.7
Total time used on man-hours during the year, family counselling  109 528 11 242 16 436 18 075 21 685 42 090
Total time used on man-hours since the establishment, family counselling  156 750 14 381 26 025 27 396 29 828 59 120
Total number of sessions during the year, family counselling 79 981 7 819 11 251 14 519 15 891 30 501
Total number of sessions since the establishment, family counselling  114 960 10 153 18 076 22 315 21 929 42 487
             
Couple related issue main reason for enquiry 13 617 1 328 1 755 2 455 2 925 5 154
Parent-child related issue main reason for enquiry 2 775  307  348  490  567 1 063
Issue trusting to collaboration about children main reason for enquiry 7 543 1 245 1 149  927 1 512 2 710
Issue related to other family members or other main reason for enquiry  806  102  118  130  154  302
Individual problems main reason for enquiry 3 155  476  428  408  621 1 222
             
Main actions in the counselling, couple counselling 12 124 1 058 1 557 2 075 2 581 4 853
Main actions in the counselling, parents-children counselling 1 266  137  170  193  253  513
Main actions in the counselling, collaboration about children 4 690  788  851  514  985 1 552
Main actions in the counselling, counselling with the rest of the family/others  258 28 25 34 59  112
Main actions in the counselling, individual counselling 9 385 1 433 1 159 1 554 1 856 3 383
Main actions in the counselling, group treatment  173 14 36 40 45 38
             
Man-years, family counselling  386.6 59.0 56.5 54.4 72.3  144.4
Man-years family counselling by social workers  144.2 29.1 22.0 24.6 25.1 43.4
Man-years family counselling by psychologists  101.8 10.3 15.4 12.9 14.4 48.8
Man-years family counselling by other than social workers and psychologists 72.4 7.6 10.9 10.2 19.6 24.1
Man-years family counselling by office workers 68.4 12.0 8.3 6.7 13.3 28.1
Vacancies family counselling 14.3 1.3 2.2 0.2 2.3 8.3
             
Time spent on group therapy 1 902  122  117  202  509  952
Time spent on relationship enhancement courses 3 302  636  431  244  727 1 264
Time spent on other measures for users 1 667  241  265  314  524  323
Time spent on information/guidance of students 1 139 93  173  276  174  423
Time spent on consultation/guidance of the support service 2 866  258  448  301  838 1 021
Time spent on courses/information of the support service 2 380  265  314  524  323  954
Time spent on information to the media  393 36 18  102 42  195
1  Figures for 2006 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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