Statistics Norway

Employment among immigrants (register based)

11 Employed, by occupational group and country group of birth. Absolute numbers and in per cent. Q4 2010
  Employed in total1 Thereof:
  Immigrants
  in total Country group 11 Country group 2 2
In total 2 256 558  240 243  123 576  116 667
         
1 Legislators, senior officials and managers  173 707 8 213 5 837 2 376
2 Professionals  313 640 31 533 19 977 11 556
3 Technicians and associate professionals  494 367 34 732 19 771 14 961
4 Clerks  153 784 14 971 7 144 7 827
5 Service workers and shop and market sales workers  556 994 59 018 20 614 38 404
6 Agricultural, forestry and fishery workers 47 041 2 230 1 870  360
7 Craft and related trades workers  218 773 30 089 23 562 6 527
8 Plant and machine operators and assemblers  174 465 24 325 10 959 13 366
9 Elementary occupations  123 787 35 132 13 842 21 290
         
In total  100.0  100.0  100.0  100.0
         
1 Legislators, senior officials and managers 7.7 3.4 4.7 2.0
2 Professionals 13.9 13.1 16.2 9.9
3 Technicians and associate professionals 21.9 14.5 16.0 12.8
4 Clerks 6.8 6.2 5.8 6.7
5 Service workers and shop and market sales workers 24.7 24.6 16.7 32.9
6 Agricultural, forestry and fishery workers 2.1 0.9 1.5 0.3
7 Craft and related trades workers 9.7 12.5 19.1 5.6
8 Plant and machine operators and assemblers 7.7 10.1 8.9 11.5
9 Elementary occupations 5.5 14.6 11.2 18.2
1  With registered occupation. EU/EFTA-countries, North America, Australia and New Zealand.
2  Eastern Europe outside the EU, Asia(Turkey incl.), Africa, South and Central America and Oceania except Australia and New Zealand.

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