Statistics Norway

Employment among immigrants (register based)

3   Employed by sex, labour market status, region of birth and generation. Q4 2004. Per cent of persons aged 16-74 years in each group and in absolute figures
    Total Males Females
  Employees Self employed Employed, total Employees Self employed Employed, total Employees Self employed Employed, total
  Per cent
Total population 64.5             4.8             69.3             65.5             7.0             72.5             63.4             2.6             66.0
                   
First generation immigrants, total 52.8 3.8 56.6 55.9 5.2 61.1 49.7 2.5 52.2
The Nordic countries 65.8 5.7 71.5 65.5 8.0 73.5 66.1 3.6 69.7
Western Europe else 61.9 5.6 67.5 66.3 6.4 72.6 56.3 4.5 60.9
New EU countries in Eastern Europe 61.2 3.2 64.5 65.3 4.2 69.5 58.7 2.7 61.4
Eastern Europe else 53.7 1.9 55.6 56.4 2.7 59.1 51.5 1.3 52.7
North America and Oceania 51.2 5.2 56.4 56.8 6.5 63.4 46.1 4.0 50.1
Asia1 46.2 3.6 49.8 50.8 5.1 55.9 41.8 2.2 44.0
Africa 39.0 2.2 41.3 42.5 3.1 45.6 34.4 1.1 35.5
South and Central America 55.6 2.8 58.4 59.8 3.8 63.6 52.3 1.9 54.1
                   
Norwegian born to foreign born parents, total2 54.7 2.2 56.9 55.3 3.0 58.2 54.2 1.4 55.5
The Nordic countries 67.4 5.1 72.5 67.1 7.0 74.1 67.7 3.3 70.9
Western Europe else 64.2 4.6 68.8 66.4 6.0 72.4 61.6 3.0 64.7
New EU countries in Eastern Europe 63.7 2.8 66.5 62.4 3.3 65.7 65.2 2.2 67.4
Eastern Europe else 65.7 2.0 67.7 66.2 1.0 67.2 65.3 2.8 68.1
North America and Oceania 59.1 5.2 64.3 60.0 6.7 66.7 58.3 3.9 62.1
Asia1 50.4 1.4 51.8 51.6 2.0 53.7 49.1 0.7 49.8
Africa 50.2 1.1 51.3 46.2 2.1 48.3 54.5 - 54.5
South and Central America 39.6 0.3 39.8 40.7 0.5 41.2 38.3 - 38.3
                   
  Absolute figures
Total population 2 116 000  158 000 2 274 000 1 083 575  115 613 1 199 188 1 032 425 42 387 1 074 812
                   
First generation immigrants, total  139 208 10 088  149 296 72 503 6 717 79 220 66 705 3 371 70 076
The Nordic countries 29 555 2 546 32 101 13 988 1 697 15 685 15 567  849 16 416
Western Europe else 19 068 1 714 20 782 11 503 1 104 12 607 7 565  610 8 175
New EU countries in Eastern Europe 7 343  389 7 732 2 980  190 3 170 4 363  199 4 562
Eastern Europe else 17 973  637 18 610 8 391  402 8 793 9 582  235 9 817
North America and Oceania 3 775  383 4 158 2 003  230 2 233 1 772  153 1 925
Asia1 44 319 3 481 47 800 23 844 2 406 26 250 20 475 1 075 21 550
Africa 11 109  638 11 747 6 875  501 7 376 4 234  137 4 371
South and Central America 6 066  300 6 366 2 919  187 3 106 3 147  113 3 260
                   
Norwegian born by foreign born parents, total2 7 532  300 7 832 3 906  210 4 116 3 626 90 3 716
The Nordic countries 1 037 79 1 116  520 54  574  517 25  542
Western Europe else  737 53  790  411 37  448  326 16  342
New EU countries in Eastern Europe  483 21  504  249 13  262  234 8  242
Eastern Europe else  435 13  448  204 3  207  231 10  241
North America and Oceania  114 10  124 54 6 60 60 4 64
Asia1 4 077  112 4 189 2 148 85 2 233 1 929 27 1 956
Africa  503 11  514  241 11  252  262 -  262
South and Central America  146 1  147 79 1 80 67 - 67
1  Including Turkey.
2  By mothers native country.

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