Norway Yearbook - 1996

Labour market
1 98 Unemployed persons registered at the employment offices
No.' Occupation 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995
0-XTotal 100726 114374 118146 110280 102154
Males 62828 71041 73318 65741 57688
Females 37898 43333 44828 44539 44466
.
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o Professional, technical and related work 12212 14016 15285 16266 16 845
Of which
04 Nursing work 2207 2 589 2852 3282 3529
05 Other professional health and medical work. . 216 251 282 315 330
06 Teaching work 2968 3 555 4284 4831 5665
1 Administrative, executive and managerial work . 1 841 2 129 2 099 1 767 1 635
2 Clerical work 7897 9 186 9294 8780 8316
3 Sales work 10309 11845 12288 11622 11260
4 Agriculture, forestry, fishing and related work . . 2997 3419 3418 3 147 2987
5 Mining and quarrying work 415 524 695 686 595
6 Transport and communication work 6305 6 968 6891 6007 5301
Of which
60, 61 Ship's officer work, deck and engine-room
crew work 1 435 1 535 1 505 1 304 1128
64 Road transport work 3820 4215 4186 3566 3 107
7-8 Manufacturing and construction work 38683 42507 42243 35402 30420
Of which
Construction 12725 13484 12939 10029 7902
75 Iron and metal ware work 8500 9362 9813 8099 6597
76 Electrical work 2878 3071 3004 2427 1 688
88 Dock and warehouse work 2698 3013 2977 2 679 2 390
gServicework2 12174 13781 14136 14140 13976
Of which
91 Domestic work, doorman work etc 4419 4840 4903 4858 4617
93 Building, caretaking and cleaning work 3706 4325 4548 4585 4704
X Occupation not specified 7986 10003 11797 12462 10821
'In accordance with Standard Classification of Occupations in Official Statistics of Norway. 2lncl. military work.
Source: The Directorate of Labour. More information: Division for Labour Market Statistics.
1 99 Unemployed persons (LFS) by duration of unemployment. Annual average. 1 000
Duration of unemployment
Number
1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1991 1992 1993 1994
Source: NOS Labour Market Statistics. More information: Division for Labour Market Statrstrcs.
Per cent
Total, including unspecified
116 126 127 116 107 100 100 100 100 100
1-4weeks 22 23 21 19 19 19 18 17 16 17
5-13 weeks 23 23 24 23 20 20 18 19 19 18
14-26weeks 18 18 18 16 15 15 15 14 14 14
27weeksandmore 41 45 49 45 40 35 36 39 38 37
Unspecified 14 16 14 14 14 12 13 11 12 13
Average duration. Weeks. 30.5 32.7 34.9 36.7 35.4
1995
169