Statistics Norway

Employment among immigrants (register based)

10   Employees by economic sector and immigrant-background. Q4 2002 and 2003
  In total Public administration Private sector Municipal and county administration
  Per cent
2002, total  100.00  100.00  100.00  100.00
         
Non-immigrants 93.52 94.14 93.17 94.43
Immigrants in total1 6.48 5.86 6.83 5.57
Of which        
Western countries 2.57 3.07 2.62 2.02
Non-western countries 3.91 2.79 4.21 3.55
         
2003, total  100.00  100.00  100.00  100.00
         
Non-immigrants 93.43 93.88 93.14 94.22
Immigrants in total1 6.57 6.12 6.86 5.79
Of which        
Western countries 2.55 3.14 2.60 2.01
Non-western countries 4.02 2.98 4.26 3.78
         
  Absolute figures
2002, total 2 115 000  248 198 1 391 423  468 285
         
Non-immigrants 1 977 947  233 650 1 296 321  442 202
Immigrants in total1  137 053 14 548 95 102 26 083
Of which        
Western countries 54 278 7 630 36 480 9 469
Non-western countries 82 775 6 918 58 622 16 614
         
2003, total 2 098 000  250 021 1 368 575  472 316
         
Non-immigrants 1 960 139  234 725 1 274 654  445 011
Immigrants in total1  137 861 15 296 93 921 27 305
Of which        
Western countries 53 504 7 851 35 585 9 475
Non-western countries 84 357 7 445 58 336 17 830
1  Norwegian born by foreign born parents are included.

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