5 Employed persons aged 15-74 with health care education working in
the health care industry1 by category of personnel and settled working hours. 4. q. 2009 (Corrected 21. September)

  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 40-44 45 and
over
Total 271 701 46 421 61 017 80 559 71 890 11 079 735 30,1 10,1 31,2
Medical secretary 8 173 1 652 1 306 1 785 3 384 40 6 29,7 9,7 30,8
Auxiliary Nurse 62 165 14 803 21 350 19 407 6 368 199 38 26,9 9,5 28,0
Health worker2 244 50 76 90 27 1 - 27,7 17,2 29,6
Care worker 14 321 2 872 5 046 4 542 1 822 34 5 27,6 11,2 28,8
Paramedic 2 540 173 145 1 878 281 42 21 33,4 18,5 35,6
Pharmacy technician 410 151 78 61 115 3 2 25,7 15,1 27,3
Chiropodist 1 026 255 192 70 124 385 - 29,3 13,5 30,9
Child care worker 9 548 1 561 1 392 1 883 4 676 31 5 30,8 14,6 32,6
Dental secretary 3 504 665 510 724 1 545 55 5 30,2 9,0 31,2
Dental technician 74 16 5 7 29 17 - 32,4 2,7 32,7
Unqualified occupational
therapists 		2 869 640 672 625 926 5 1 28,5 13,3 29,9
Other health care
education, sec. level 		2 011 825 341 344 490 10 1 25,0 12,2 26,3
Occupational therapist 2 967 327 342 772 1 498 27 1 32,5 8,4 33,5
Physiotherapist 8 828 1 109 1 124 2 371 1 537 2 673 14 33,6 10,7 34,7
Midwife 2 541 529 829 810 343 25 5 28,3 11,6 29,7
Radiographer 2 456 186 220 1 031 992 20 7 33,6 3,7 34,0
Nurse 75 113 10 531 19 446 29 155 15 362 425 194 30,2 6,9 31,0
Social educator 9 708 905 1 541 4 048 3 141 53 20 32,4 8,7 33,4
Public health nurse 3 392 544 626 921 1 285 14 2 30,2 11,3 31,5
Dental nurse 900 161 136 140 383 79 1 30,7 15,4 32,6
Audiologist 258 32 21 40 150 12 3 33,0 8,9 33,9
Medical laboratory
technologist 		4 677 436 585 1 592 2 029 26 9 32,9 4,4 33,3
Optometrist 101 20 6 11 57 7 - 31,7 8,9 32,7
Child welfare officer 7 070 645 658 2 028 3 655 59 25 33,4 7,9 34,3
Social worker 9 057 840 675 1 953 5 499 73 17 33,8 7,1 34,5
Other health care
education, college level3 		7 443 3 208 946 1 107 2 128 36 18 23,7 11,6 24,9
Clinical nutritionist 199 25 19 45 100 9 1 32,6 16,6 34,6
Pharmacist and
dispensing
chemist 		112 24 9 12 62 5 - 31,0 8,9 32,0
Chiropractor 427 53 29 3 62 277 3 36,7 4,9 37,4
Perfusionist 35 - - 19 16 - - 36,3 - 36,3
Physician 9 168 822 842 739 5 515 1 153 97 34,7 21,3 37,1
Medical student with license 298 246 13 6 22 10 1 15,3 4,7 15,7
Specialised physician 10 396 758 1 108 954 4 284 3 099 193 35,5 24,4 38,1
Dentist 3 759 408 403 797 629 1 499 23 35,1 8,9 36,1
Specialist in dentistry 411 49 37 38 137 140 10 34,8 17,0 36,7
Psychologist 4 459 293 215 477 2 940 530 4 35,2 13,6 36,7
Other health care
education, university level 		1 041 607 74 74 277 6 3 20,0 11,0 21,0

1From 2008 health care services also include child care activities, school-age child care and recreation centres for children adolescents, work practice for ordinary employment, social welfare organisations and permanent sheltered employment
2Health worker is a new health care education from 2009
3College level courses of shorter duration are included from 2006
Source: Registerbased employment statistics for health care personnel, Statistics Norway