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1 900 more kindergarten places
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Kindergartens, 2000, preliminary figures

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1 900 more kindergarten places

Preliminary figures show that 189 500 children had places in ordinary kindergartens or family day-care centres at the end of 2000. This is an increase of almost 1 900 kindergarten places, or 1 per cent, since the end of 1999.

In addition, just over 5 300 children went to open kindergartens, which corresponds to an increase of 200 places in relation to 1999. The total number of children in kindergartens was thus 194 800. Municipalities in Vestfold had the largest increase in the number of kindergarten places in 2000. With a total of 8 000 places at the end of 2000, the number of kindergarten places in Vestfold has increased by 5 per cent since the end of 1999.

Most places for small children in Oslo

Forty-five thousand of the children in kindergartens were aged 0-2, which is 300 fewer than in 1999. The number of places for small children accounted for just under 24 per cent of all kindergarten places, when places in open kindergartens are excluded. The percentage of places for small children varied from just under 20 per cent of all kindergarten places in Vest-Agder, to 32 per cent of the kindergartens in Oslo.

More full-day places

On a national basis, nearly 120 200 of the places are defined as full-day places, which amounts to an increase of just over 2 000 places since 1999. A place used by agreement 33 or more hours per week counts as a full-day place. Full-day places made up 63 per cent of all places when children in open kindergartens are excluded. Kindergartens in Oslo and Finnmark had the highest share of full-day places, with 89 and 84 per cent respectively. Oppland (38 per cent) and Vest-Agder (40 per cent) had the lowest percentage of full-day places. Just over 66 per cent of 0-2 year olds in kindergarten had a full-day place, while the corresponding figures for children aged three and up was 63 per cent.

The statistics are mainly based on the municipalities application forms for government subsidies for kindergartens. For the municipalities that have not reported this form, the data were reported through the KOSTRA project (Municipal-State Reporting).