5 Employed persons aged 16-66 with health care education who are working in
the health care industry1 by category of personnel and settled working hours. 4. q. 2006

Weekly settled working hours Mean
main
employ
ment
Portion with
more than one
employ-
ment
Mean
per person
Total 1-19 20-29 30-36 37-39 40 and
more
Total 234 769 41 530 53 186 70 077 59 206 10 770 30,1 9,9 31,2
Medical secretary 6 873 1 407 1 244 1 437 2 686 99 29,6 9,6 30,7
Auxiliary Nurse 57 872 13 974 19 632 18 403 5 547 316 27,0 9,3 28,1
Care worker 12 438 2 687 4 393 4 030 1 278 50 27,3 12,3 28,7
Paramedic 2 013 144 85 1 355 337 92 34,0 18,0 36,2
Pharmacy technician 257 100 55 39 61 2 24,5 11,7 25,8
Chiropodist 808 205 147 51 63 342 29,6 8,5 30,7
Child care worker 1 438 550 336 264 255 33 24,6 13,7 26,2
Dental secretary 3 112 617 486 651 1 291 67 30,1 10,2 31,3
Dental technician 224 25 14 6 23 156 37,6 3,6 38,1
Unqualified occupational
therapists
2 484 679 606 461 713 25 27,7 13,6 29,2
Other health care
education, sec. level
723 171 120 147 280 5 29,3 11,6 30,7
Occupational therapist 2 491 303 309 582 1 276 21 32,2 9,7 33,4
Physiotherapist 8 185 1 023 966 2 132 1 261 2 803 34,1 10,1 35,4
Midwife 2 342 520 688 756 333 45 28,6 12,6 30,2
Radiographer 2 205 168 198 890 906 43 33,9 4,3 34,3
Nurse 69 234 10 468 17 270 26 280 14 258 958 30,3 6,7 31,0
Prof. health worker
for ment. retarded
8 050 793 1 246 3 316 2 644 51 32,4 9,2 33,5
Public health nurse 3 088 492 613 840 1 134 9 30,3 11,3 31,8
Dental nurses 812 157 121 107 348 79 30,7 16,0 32,9
Audiologist 211 24 12 38 125 12 33,2 7,6 34,0
Medical laboratory
technologist
4 527 482 578 1 492 1 911 64 32,7 4,3 33,3
Optometrist 62 12 5 4 35 6 32,2 11,3 33,8
Child welfare officer 5 219 504 529 1 336 2 799 51 33,3 8,1 34,2
Social worker 7 695 719 573 1 496 4 823 84 33,8 7,5 34,7
Other health care
education, college level2
6 417 2 839 850 1 039 1 621 68 23,5 13,6 24,9
Clinical nutritionist 151 20 17 28 83 3 32,6 9,9 33,9
Pharmacist and
dispensing
chemist
93 16 5 10 59 3 32,6 7,5 33,8
Chiropractor 324 35 14 5 87 183 37,3 4,0 37,7
Perfusionist 26 1 - 15 10 - 35,6 - 35,6
Physician 7 575 635 557 632 4 828 923 35,0 18,0 37,3
Medicine students with license 356 252 10 10 65 19 19,6 5,1 20,0
Specialised physician 9 236 503 935 962 4 241 2 595 35,9 27,9 39,1
Dentist 3 559 321 347 760 1 003 1 128 35,5 9,8 36,8
Specialist in dentistry 247 18 20 36 88 85 36,2 22,3 38,9
Psychologist 3 633 209 143 394 2 543 344 35,7 9,4 37,0
Other health care
education, university level
789 457 62 73 191 6 20,0 13,4 21,2