Statistics Norway

Employment among immigrants (register based)

10 Employees, by immigrant-background, country group of birth and economic sector. Absolute figures and in per cent. Q4 2007 and 2008
  Total1 State sector Private sector 2 Municipal and county sector
2007, total 2 320 002  260 692 1 545 805  508 377
         
Non-immigrants 2 107 165  241 288 1 390 713  471 265
Immigrants and Norwegian-born with immigrant parents  212 837 19 404  155 092 37 112
Country group 13 94 568 10 198 70 921 12 852
Country group 2 4  118 269 9 206 84 171 24 260
         
2008, total 2 353 000  260 937 1 572 841  515 268
         
Non-immigrants 2 112 440  240 011 1 395 804  474 317
Immigrants and Norwegian-born with immigrant parents  240 560 20 926  177 037 40 951
Country group 13  111 592 10 708 86 080 13 957
Country group 24  128 968 10 218 90 957 26 994
         
  Per cent
2007, total  100.0  100.0  100.0  100.0
         
Non-immigrants 90.8 92.6 90.0 92.7
Immigrants and Norwegian-born with immigrant parents 9.2 7.4 10.0 7.3
Country group 13 4.1 3.9 4.6 2.5
Country group 2 4 5.1 3.5 5.5 4.8
         
2008, total  100.0  100.0  100.0  100.0
         
Non-immigrants 89.8 92.0 88.7 92.1
Immigrants and Norwegian-born with immigrant parents 10.2 8.0 11.3 8.0
Country group 13 4.7 4.1 5.5 2.7
Country group 2 4 5.5 3.9 5.8 5.2
1  Unspecified included.
2  Public owned enterprises included.
3  EU/EFTA-countries, North America, Australia and New Zealand.
4  Eastern Europe outside the EU, Asia(Turkey incl.), Africa, South and Central America and Oceania except Australia and New Zealand.

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