Statistics Norway

Family counselling service

11 Figures family counselling service. Figures for 2009
  Total Region East Region South Region West Region Middle Region North
Population, total 4 858 199 1 770 946  936 066 1 012 202  673 364  465 621
             
Gross operating expenditures, family counselling service1  308 912  112 568 56 379 58 133 41 739 40 093
Adjusted gross operating expenditures, public owned family counselling offices  186 650 87 799 18 478 23 518 26 998 29 857
Wage expenditures, public owned family counselling offices  141 528 67 218 13 446 18 640 20 701 21 523
             
Family counselling service cases 30 492 11 898 5 657 5 157 4 116 3 664
Family counselling service cases, public owned family counselling offices 17 913 8 892 1 884 1 946 2 441 2 750
Average waiting time per case, all cases, family counselling service 31 29 29 38 31 29
Average duration per family counselling case (days)  132  133  130  145  144  106
Average number of sessions per family counselling case during the year 2.9 2.9 2.8 3.4 3.0 2.5
Average number of sessions per family counselling case since the establishment 4.3 4.3 3.9 4.9 4.9 3.3
Average man-hours per case during the year 4.0 4.0 3.7 4.3 4.3 3.6
Average man-hours per case since the establishment 5.8 5.9 5.1 6.2 6.9 4.7
Total time used on sessions during the year, family counselling  121 292 47 794 20 885 22 080 17 525 13 008
Total time used on sessions since the establishment, family counselling  176 666 70 327 28 886 32 103 28 243 17 107
Total number of sessions during the year, family counselling 89 937 35 035 15 949 17 475 12 381 9 097
Total number of sessions since the establishment, family counselling  130 882 51 327 21 972 25 368 20 188 12 027
             
Main actions in the counselling, couple counselling, all cases 12 843 5 222 2 510 2 308 1 709 1 094
Main actions in the counselling, parents counselling, all cases 5 742 2 105 1 119  754  935  829
Main actions in the counselling, counselling with the family/relatives, all cases 1 570  664  307  249  194  156
Main actions in the counselling, individual counselling, all cases 10 216 3 877 1 689 1 821 1 258 1 571
Main actions in the counselling, group treatment, all cases  121 30 32 25 20 14
Main actions in the counselling unknown - - - - - -
             
Man-years, family counselling  432.4  158.2 76.0 79.8 58.1 60.2
Man-years family counselling by social workers  161.6 48.1 27.5 32.2 27.0 26.9
Man-years family counselling by psychologists  113.0 51.0 14.9 22.6 13.7 10.9
Man-years family counselling by other than social workers and psychologists 78.7 27.6 19.9 13.4 8.3 9.6
Man-years family counselling by office workers 79.0 31.5 13.7 11.7 9.2 12.9
Vacancies family counselling 13.4 5.0 4.2 0.3 0.0 4.0
             
Hours spent on group therapy 2 445  659  450  354  584  398
Hours spent on relationship enhancement courses 3 386 1 419  452  479  876  160
Hours spent on other measures for users 2 251 1 159  360  318  158  256
Hours spent on information/guidance of students  945  316  204  231  128 66
Hours spent on consultation/guidance of the support service 4 549 1 740  782  701  723  603
Hours spent on courses/information of the support service 3 839 1 321  471 1 243  411  393
Hours spent on information to the media 1 076  691  137  165 25 58
1  Gross operating expenditures are given in NOK 1 000.

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