1 Number of persons aged 15-85 with health care education by category of personnel
and employmentstatus. 4. q. 2009 (Corrected 21. September)

  Persons,
total		 In the labour force Outside the labour force
Total Employed
Unempl.

Total Rehabili-
tation, dis-
ability
pension		 Old Age-
pension 		Cash-
for-
care6 		Under
edu-
cation7 		Unsp.

Wage
earn.		 Self
empl.
Total 427 029 347 784 326 583 18 798 2 403 79 245 21 112 33 772 1 455 5 694 17 212
Medical secretary 12 808 10 976 10 590 199 187 1 832 663 199 78 184 708
Auxiliary nurse 105 050 74 722 72 318 1 712 692 30 328 10 407 14 023 313 805 4 780
Health worker1 259 254 252 2 - 5 3 - - 1 1
Care worker 20 716 17 783 17 336 273 174 2 933 1 121 333 143 171 1 165
Pharmacy technician 5 907 5 019 4 850 61 108 888 265 165 57 81 320
Chiropodist 2 236 1 786 974 782 30 450 136 86 13 35 180
Child care worker 16 376 14 762 14 434 170 158 1 614 472 93 124 214 711
Dental secretary 6 145 5 072 4 873 136 63 1 073 358 269 30 69 347
Unqualified occupational
therapist 		5 259 4 122 3 929 147 46 1 137 494 282 22 42 297
Other health care
education, secondary level2		 7 549 6 803 6 461 283 59 746 106 118 11 308 203
Occupational therapist 4 276 3 710 3 605 75 30 566 136 180 21 47 182
Physiotherapist 12 467 10 660 6 632 3 991 37 1 807 204 975 24 115 489
Midwife and public
health nurse 		8 943 6 811 6 671 128 12 2 132 350 1 511 23 28 220
Radiographer 3 329 2 923 2 877 21 25 406 96 136 6 47 121
Nurse 109 446 89 838 88 033 1 537 268 19 608 4 009 10 306 371 905 4 017
Social educator 13 183 11 986 11 782 154 50 1 197 419 202 40 79 457
Dental nurse 1 346 1 178 1 041 129 8 168 40 53 6 10 59
Medical laboratory
technologist 		7 512 6 500 6 351 90 59 1 012 189 420 23 108 272
Child welfare officer 10 571 9 353 9 090 191 72 1 218 333 292 46 91 456
Social worker 15 279 12 959 12 550 296 113 2 320 668 903 45 121 583
Other health care
education, college level3 		11 919 10 488 10 251 177 60 1 431 60 135 20 1 024 192
Pharmacist and
dispensing chemist 		4 598 3 789 3 713 61 15 809 79 509 7 51 163
Physician4 13 153 11 345 9 297 1 970 78 1 808 176 283 16 734 599
Specialised physician 13 091 11 676 8 713 2 955 8 1 415 132 1 069 2 9 203
Dentist and
specialist in dentistry 		6 061 4 729 2 656 2 068 5 1 332 99 949 4 56 224
Psychologist 6 973 6 389 5 561 801 27 584 89 262 9 33 191
Other health care
education, univ. level5 		2 577 2 151 1 743 389 19 426 8 19 1 326 72

1Health worker is a new health care education from 2009
2Paramedics and Dental technicians are included
3Audiologists, Optometrists, Certified prosthetists are included. College level courses of shorter duration are included for 2006
4Medical students are included
5Clinical nutritionists, Chiropractors and Perfusionists are included
6Includes persons on maternity leave who are unemployed
7The source of information about further education originate from the register for education in progress the statistic year t-1
Source: Registerbased employment statistics for health care personnel, Statistics Norway