1 Number of persons aged 15-85 with health care education by category of personnel
and employmentstatus. 4. q. 2011

  Persons,
total		 In the labour force Outside the labour force8
Total Employed Unempl. Total Under
education 		Work assessment
allowance,
disability
pension
and survivors
pension		 Retirement-
pension and
flexible
retirement
pension 7 		Cash-
for-
care 		Unsp.
Wage
earn.		 Self
empl.
Total 450 186 362 325 341 345 18 872 2 108 87 861 7 408 29 657 37 124 898 12 774
Medical secretary 13 393 11 214 10 876 191 147 2 179 204 1 271 282 49 373
Auxiliary nurse 102 555 70 379 68 427 1 466 486 32 176 859 13 055 15 200 164 2 898
Health worker1 3 941 3 600 3 544 20 36 341 38 42 - 6 255
Care worker 20 857 17 513 17 104 254 155 3 344 205 2 097 444 61 537
Pharmacy technician 6 193 5 074 4 924 60 90 1 119 120 517 222 40 220
Chiropodist 2 337 1 806 1 012 767 27 531 20 288 102 4 117
Child care worker 19 260 17 205 16 862 157 186 2 055 322 1 033 129 81 490
Dental secretary 6 368 5 148 4 966 113 69 1 220 78 550 354 18 220
Unqualified occupational
therapist 		5 247 3 995 3 832 126 37 1 252 55 704 345 14 134
Other health care
education, secondary level2		 9 501 8 497 8 183 258 56 1 004 425 206 150 7 216
Occupational therapist 4 640 4 025 3 945 59 21 615 36 204 220 20 135
Physiotherapist 13 209 11 246 7 125 4 070 51 1 963 126 264 1 071 23 479
Midwife and public
health nurse 		9 438 7 090 6 936 142 12 2 348 41 391 1 636 12 268
Radiographer 3 573 3 131 3 085 27 19 442 51 139 140 6 106
Nurse 113 618 92 650 91 004 1 381 265 20 968 1 274 5 434 10 842 227 3 191
Social educator 14 541 13 148 12 946 150 52 1 393 94 712 258 26 303
Dental nurse 1 440 1 263 1 110 149 4 177 12 56 59 2 48
Medical laboratory
technologist 		7 853 6 711 6 587 83 41 1 142 110 273 488 21 250
Child welfare officer 11 625 10 258 10 016 170 72 1 367 96 549 375 33 314
Social worker 16 616 13 924 13 566 264 94 2 692 151 1 012 1 081 34 414
Other health care
education, college level3 		13 767 11 751 11 524 182 45 2 016 1 554 96 163 8 195
Pharmacist and
dispensing chemist 		4 915 4 022 3 955 54 13 893 67 101 541 14 170
Physician4 13 541 11 442 9 498 1 873 71 2 099 862 253 330 14 640
Specialised physician 14 396 12 688 9 290 3 391 7 1 708 18 140 1 306 1 243
Dentist and
specialist in dentistry 		6 308 4 894 2 750 2 138 6 1 414 28 106 1 056 1 223
Psychologist5 6 730 6 123 5 280 819 24 607 15 125 297 7 163
Other health care
education, univ. level6 		4 324 3 528 2 998 508 22 796 547 39 33 5 172

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
5From 2011 only clinical psychologists are included
6Clinical nutritionists,Chiropractors, Perfusionists and other Psychology educations are included
7The figures for persons with flexible retirement pension are not complete
8The figures for persons outside the labour force was updated October 9th. 2012
Source: Registerbased employment statistics for health care personnel, Statistics Norway