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. 2010

  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 277 680 48 225 61 189 81 981 72 631 12 405 1 249 30,1 10,0 31,1
Medical secretary 8 274 1 697 1 334 1 837 3 343 49 14 29,6 9,5 30,7
Auxiliary Nurse 60 533 14 513 20 891 18 929 5 976 191 33 26,9 9,0 27,8
Health worker2 1 119 216 379 419 101 3 1 27,7 19,0 29,9
Care worker 14 229 2 935 5 015 4 554 1 688 35 2 27,5 10,7 28,6
Paramedic 2 755 197 174 2 060 275 33 16 33,1 18,6 35,3
Pharmacy technician 448 177 83 81 103 4 - 24,9 13,6 26,4
Chiropodist 1 014 273 184 73 81 402 1 29,1 14,2 30,6
Child care worker 10 244 1 700 1 479 2 071 4 963 30 1 30,7 13,8 32,3
Dental secretary 3 526 677 508 705 1 585 41 10 30,2 8,7 31,2
Dental technician 72 14 9 6 29 14 - 31,7 6,9 32,6
Unqualified occupational
therapists 		2 807 645 623 606 926 6 1 28,7 12,6 30,1
Other health care
education, sec. level 		2 941 1 263 623 536 509 9 1 23,6 13,9 25,1
Occupational therapist 3 056 334 370 738 1 579 31 4 32,5 8,6 33,5
Physiotherapist 8 975 1 221 1 124 2 443 1 454 2 674 59 33,5 10,8 34,7
Midwife 2 599 541 814 868 332 35 9 28,4 11,0 29,7
Radiographer 2 551 190 261 1 056 1 014 15 15 33,5 4,2 34,0
Nurse 77 207 11 048 19 923 30 282 15 408 381 165 30,1 7,0 30,9
Social educator 10 175 978 1 571 4 217 3 340 51 18 32,4 8,9 33,4
Public health nurse 3 345 523 604 952 1 251 14 1 30,4 11,2 31,6
Dental nurse 938 166 140 141 403 85 3 30,9 14,8 32,8
Audiologist 277 40 20 52 154 9 2 32,4 9,7 33,4
Medical laboratory
technologist 		4 765 440 628 1 608 2 044 39 6 32,8 4,1 33,2
Optometrist 108 17 10 10 66 5 - 32,2 12,0 33,2
Child welfare officer 7 427 693 660 2 089 3 906 61 18 33,4 7,8 34,2
Social worker 9 383 921 721 2 056 5 582 83 20 33,6 7,1 34,4
Other health care
education, college level3 		7 702 3 324 965 1 108 2 227 53 25 23,7 12,0 24,9
Clinical nutritionist 222 27 14 44 130 6 1 33,2 14,4 34,8
Pharmacist and
dispensing
chemist 		107 20 5 19 56 6 1 31,6 11,2 32,7
Chiropractor 477 70 33 3 57 307 7 36,5 5,2 37,1
Perfusionist 37 1 2 17 17 - - 35,5 - 35,5
Physician 9 262 822 501 456 5 606 1 646 231 35,5 18,9 37,3
Medical student with license 264 224 10 4 16 9 1 14,0 7,2 14,7
Specialised physician 10 864 907 760 464 4 301 3 930 502 36,3 24,1 38,6
Dentist 3 854 447 427 871 578 1 481 50 35,0 9,0 36,0
Specialist in dentistry 426 58 44 43 135 134 12 34,0 18,8 36,1
Psychologist 4 697 325 206 496 3 120 532 18 35,2 14,0 36,7
Other health care
education, university level 		1 000 581 74 67 276 1 1 20,1 12,0 21,2

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