Statistics Norway

Employment among immigrants (register based)

11 Employees, by immigrant-background, country group and economic sector. Absolute figures and in per cent. Q4 2008 and 2009
  Total1 State sector Private sector 2 Municipal and county sector
2008, total 2 353 000  260 937 1 572 841  515 268
         
Non-immigrants 2 112 440  240 011 1 395 804  474 317
Immigrants and Norwegian-born with immigrant parents  240 560 20 926  177 037 40 951
Thereof:        
Country group 13  111 643 10 714 86 120 13 962
Country group 2 4  128 917 10 212 90 917 26 989
         
2009, total 2 326 000  269 945 1 526 810  524 358
         
Non-immigrants 2 075 762  247 077 1 345 693  480 170
Immigrants and Norwegian-born with immigrant parents  250 238 22 868  181 117 44 188
Thereof:        
Country group 13  119 979 11 459 91 887 15 486
Country group 24  130 259 11 409 89 230 28 702
         
      Per cent
2008, total  100.0  100.0  100.0  100.0
         
Non-immigrants 89.8 92.0 88.7 92.1
Immigrants and Norwegian-born with immigrant parents 10.2 8.0 11.3 8.0
Thereof:        
Country group 13 4.7 4.1 5.5 2.7
Country group 2 4 5.5 3.9 5.8 5.2
         
2009, total  100.0  100.0  100.0  100.0
         
Non-immigrants 89.2 91.5 88.1 91.6
Immigrants and Norwegian-born with immigrant parents 10.8 8.5 11.9 8.4
Thereof:        
Country group 13 5.2 4.2 6.0 3.0
Country group 2 4 5.6 4.2 5.8 5.5
1  Unspecified sector included.
2  Public owned enterprises included.
3  EU/EFTA-countries, North America, Australia and New Zealand.
4  Eastern Europe outside the EU, Asia(Turkey incl.), Africa, South and Central America and Oceania except Australia and New Zealand.

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