Norway Yearbook - 1996

Health and social conditions
114 National Insurance. Sickness allowance days during the year1'2
1993 1994 1995
Sickness allowance days during the year2
Total 17646000 17073006 18416000
Of these: Sickness allowance days among employees 15563000 13637 000 15003000
Sickness allowance days per employed2'3
Total4 9.7 9.2 9.7
Of these: Sickness allowance days among employees5 8.6 8.2 8.8
Excluding Government employees.2Sickness allowance days terminated during the year or running at the end of the year.3The number of
employed persons are drawn from the Labour Force Sample Surveys. These are approximately adjusted for the number of Government employees.4Per
employed person, total.5Per employed wage earner.
Source: National Insurance Administration. More information: Division for Social Welfare Statistics.
11 5 National Insurance. Expenditure on benefits during sickness. 1 000 kroner
1993 1994 1995
Sickness benefits, total1 20 446 505 20390 963 22 007 879
Sickness allowances 11025641 10442224 11377129
Medical benefits, total 9420864 9948739 10630750
Subsidies to special institutions 409 696 436 668 446 978
Dental treatment 161 866 171 835 183 158
Patients' transportation 983 184 1 023 325 1 067 757
Medicines etc. 3574363 3860014 4243968
Orthopedical remedies, appliances etc. and hearing aids 441 311 479 969 474 951
Reimbursements to specialists and doctors 2 369 405 2 316 947 2452479
Reimbursements to physiotherapists and psychologists 554 851 623 724 668792
Doctors' transportation etc. 270 783 308 173 310 172
Reimbursement of personal contribution 379 243 428 597 472 294
Grants 173725 183563 217627
Medical benefits abroad 71 593 80720 55629
Other expenditure2 30 844 35204 36945
1Exclusive confinement benefit etc. 2lnclusive expenditure for patients from reciprocity countries.
Source: National Insurance AdministratFon. More information: Division for Social Welfare Statistics.
11 6 National Insurance. Benefits at childbirth and adoption
1995
Number
Cases of benefit, total 82421
Cases of confinement benefit 65 112
Mothers 43 556
Of these: Cases with "tidskonto" 456
Fathers 21 556
Of these: Cases with "tidskonto" 74
Cases of benefit to persons engaged in own housework 16500
Cases of benefit to persons who have adopted a child/children 809
1 000 kroner
Expenditure, total 5871 802
Confinement benefit to employed persons 5387 523
Of these: confinement benefit for fathers 283 624
Holiday allowance from confinement benefit 149 979
Confinement benefit to persons engaged in own housework 422 236
Benefit for having birth at home 1 077
Benefit to persons who have adopted a child/children 60966
Source: National Insurance Administration. More information: Division for Social Welfare Statistics.
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