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. 2011

  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 285 872 46 161 62 246 85 663 76 460 14 819 523 30,4 10,3 31,5
Medical secretary 8 412 1 507 1 489 1 874 3 486 42 14 30,0 9,5 31,1
Auxiliary Nurse 58 594 13 520 20 415 19 014 5 440 175 30 27,0 9,0 28,0
Health worker2 3 311 758 1 153 1 154 234 7 5 26,6 18,1 28,7
Care worker 14 021 2 840 5 079 4 457 1 610 31 4 27,4 10,2 28,6
Paramedic 2 922 237 188 2 175 260 33 29 32,8 18,3 35,0
Pharmacy technician 478 172 110 72 119 3 2 25,4 11,9 26,9
Chiropodist 1 030 216 166 79 116 453 - 31,5 11,9 32,7
Child care worker 11 099 1 751 1 667 2 214 5 430 29 8 30,8 14,0 32,5
Dental secretary 3 578 588 586 729 1 617 46 12 30,5 8,4 31,5
Dental technician 83 19 10 9 32 13 - 30,9 3,6 31,5
Unqualified occupational
therapists 		2 744 622 621 595 897 8 1 28,7 12,5 30,1
Other health care
education, sec. level 		3 638 1 721 773 558 572 10 4 22,5 14,1 24,0
Occupational therapist 3 189 354 397 782 1 640 12 4 32,5 9,7 33,7
Physiotherapist 9 165 703 877 2 495 1 701 3 380 9 35,8 12,0 37,2
Midwife 2 681 541 895 868 352 23 2 28,1 11,6 29,6
Radiographer 2 652 182 266 1 113 1 070 13 8 33,7 4,3 34,1
Nurse 79 452 10 635 20 256 32 045 15 964 390 162 30,3 7,3 31,1
Social educator 10 633 994 1 669 4 467 3 415 64 24 32,4 8,8 33,5
Public health nurse 3 546 549 669 989 1 329 9 1 30,3 11,6 31,7
Dental nurse 978 142 124 149 446 117 - 32,1 14,0 33,9
Audiologist 293 28 32 48 172 11 2 33,1 8,5 34,3
Medical laboratory
technologist 		4 826 396 591 1 671 2 149 14 5 33,1 4,4 33,6
Optometrist 123 16 8 18 75 6 - 32,9 4,9 33,6
Child welfare officer 7 793 654 738 2 077 4 227 67 30 33,6 8,1 34,5
Social worker 9 839 884 816 2 159 5 861 101 18 33,7 7,5 34,5
Other health care
education, college level3 		8 366 3 590 1 061 1 253 2 390 54 18 23,8 12,0 25,0
Clinical nutritionist 249 29 26 46 143 4 1 32,9 16,1 34,8
Pharmacist and
dispensing
chemist 		115 17 3 21 67 7 - 32,7 13,0 34,5
Chiropractor 540 14 21 3 88 410 4 40,4 4,3 40,9
Perfusionist 35 - 1 16 18 - - 36,2 2,9 36,3
Physician 9 497 644 439 469 6 044 1 871 30 36,1 20,0 38,0
Medical student with license 284 224 15 4 29 11 1 15,9 6,3 16,4
Specialised physician 11 252 580 536 481 4 856 4 736 63 37,4 24,7 39,9
Dentist 3 913 167 242 918 718 1 848 20 37,8 9,5 38,8
Specialist in dentistry 456 25 25 52 165 181 8 37,2 19,5 39,4
Psychologist4 4 764 222 190 476 3 238 636 2 36,0 15,9 37,7
Other health care
education, university level 		1 321 620 92 113 490 4 2 23,3 11,7 24,5

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
4From 2011 only clinical Psychologists are included
Source: Registerbased employment statistics for health care personnel, Statistics Norway