Statistics Norway

Employment among immigrants (register based)

10   Employees by immigrant-background and economic sector. Q4 2004 and 2005
  Total1 State sector Private sector 2 Municipal and
county sector
  Per cent
2004, total  100.00  100.00  100.00  100.00
         
Non-immigrants 93.08 93.63 92.78 93.84
Immigrants, total3 6.92 6.37 7.23 6.16
Thereof        
Western countries 2.54 3.18 2.60 1.96
Non-western countries 4.38 3.19 4.63 4.20
         
2005, total  100.00  100.00  100.00  100.00
         
Non-immigrants 92.66 93.30 92.29 93.56
Immigrants, total3 7.34 6.70 7.71 6.44
Thereof        
Western countries 2.57 3.26 2.63 1.96
Non-western countries 4.77 3.44 5.08 4.48
         
  Absolute figures
2004, total 2 116 000  253 940 1 366 882  488 311
         
Non-immigrants 1 969 574  237 765 1 268 164  458 230
Immigrants, total3  146 426 16 175 98 718 30 081
Thereof        
Western countries 53 752 8 065 35 484 9 595
Non-western countries 92 674 8 110 63 234 20 486
         
2005, total 2 132 000  254 422 1 385 344  486 183
         
Non-immigrants 1 975 507  237 370 1 278 517  454 864
Immigrants, total3        
Thereof        
Western countries 54 814 8 296 36 491 9 550
Non-western countries  101 679 8 756 70 336 21 769
1  Unspecified included.
2  Public owned enterprises included.
3  Norwegian born by foreign born parents are included.

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