Table

Participants in Norwegian for adult immigrants by agegroups and gender¹
	2011
	Total	Males	Males	Females	Females
	Participants	Participants	Participants (per cent)	Participants	Participants (per cent)
¹The statistics includes alle persons wich has a right and/or a duty to Norwegian for adult immigrants who has participated in Norwegian during the year. The statistics also includes asylum seekers wich lives in special asylum houses. In 2011 there was 4 100 asylum seekers and in 2010 there was 5 000 asylum seekers in the statistics for Norwegian for adult immigrants. Statistics Norway do not have the national official identity number for the asylum seekers, therefore there is a quite large group with missing background informations in the statistics.
Agegroups
Total	37 261	16 418	43.1	20 843	54.7
16-25 years	16 384	8 275	48.2	8 109	46.7
26-35 years	13 471	5 345	39.7	8 126	60.3
36-45 years	5 413	2 003	37.0	3 410	63.0
46-55 years	1 598	606	37.9	992	62.1
56 years or older	395	189	47.8	206	52.2