Statistics Norway

Employment among immigrants (register based)

11 Employed by occupational group and country group of birth. Absolute figures and in per cent. Q4 2011
  Employed in total Of which immigrants
  in total Country group 11 Country group 2 2
In total3 2 444 319  289 961  153 233  136 728
         
1 Legislators, senior officials and managers  183 885 9 594 6 667 2 927
2 Professionals  339 629 35 872 22 468 13 404
3 Technicians and associate professionals  524 557 39 721 22 446 17 275
4 Clerks  162 257 16 441 7 663 8 778
5 Service workers and shop and market sales workers  618 518 71 399 25 417 45 982
6 Agricultural, forestry and fishery workers 49 532 2 919 2 507  412
7 Craft and related trades workers  240 404 41 102 33 390 7 712
8 Plant and machine operators and assemblers  187 365 29 317 14 198 15 119
9 Elementary occupations  138 172 43 596 18 477 25 119
         
In total  100.0  100.0  100.0  100.0
         
1 Legislators, senior officials and managers 7.5 3.3 4.4 2.1
2 Professionals 13.9 12.4 14.7 9.8
3 Technicians and associate professionals 21.5 13.7 14.6 12.6
4 Clerks 6.6 5.7 5.0 6.4
5 Service workers and shop and market sales workers 25.3 24.6 16.6 33.6
6 Agricultural, forestry and fishery workers 2.0 1.0 1.6 0.3
7 Craft and related trades workers 9.8 14.2 21.8 5.6
8 Plant and machine operators and assemblers 7.7 10.1 9.3 11.1
9 Elementary occupations 5.7 15.0 12.1 18.4
1  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.
3  With registered occupation.

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