Employees in kindergartens and schools

Employed persons are persons who performed paid work of at least one hour's duration in the reference week, as well as persons who have such work but who were temporarily absent due to illness, vacation, paid leave, etc.

Wage earners (used synonymously with the term emplyees) are persons who receive compensation for work in the form of wages.

Employment: A person may have several employments (jobs) in different firms. Should a person have multiple employments within the same industry (e.g. with two different primary schools), one employment is chosen.

Occupation is based on information from A-ordningen and coded according to the Standard Classification of Occupations (1998 Version STYRK-98)

Contractual percentage of full-time equivalent:Contractual percentage of full-time equivalent is what you have agreed to work according to your contract of employment. The employer shall not consider additional work, overtime or different types of absence from work or if the hours have been paid or not. The information on contractual percentage of full-time equivalent is based on what is reported to the a-ordningen. For persons that are paid by the hour without contractual working hours per week, e.g on-call temporary workers, the employer can report 0 as contractual percentage of full-time equivalent. Statistics Norway will then calculate contractual percentage of full-time equivalent from what is reported as paid hours and number of hours that corresponds to a 100 per cent position in the moth of Reporting.

Kindergarten Teachers/Teachers are employees with occupational codes beginning with 23 or 33 (except 2352).

Leaders are emplyees with occupational codes starting with 1210, 1227, 1228, 1319.

Other emplyees working With the children/pupils are emplyees with occupational codes starting with 5131, 5139, 5132, 3460, 3232.

The characteristics of place of work and industry division are obtained from the Central Register of Business Establishments and Enterprises (CRE) and apply to the local unit where the person works.

Information about the industry is retrieved from the CRE. Industry is classified according to the Classification of Standard Industrial Classification

Kindergartens are local units with industry code 88.911.

Primary and lower secondary schools comprise local units with industry code 85.201.

Upper secondary schools comprise local units with industry codes 85.310/85.320.

Post-secondary vocational schools comprise local units with industry code 85.410

Adult education institutions comprise local units with industry code 85.594.

Characteristics such as place of residence, sex, and age are obtained from the National Registry.

Residents are defined as persons registered in the National Registry and also include temporary residents who plan on staying in Norway for six months or more.

Pedagogical education and Kindergarten-relevant pedagogical education are based on information about completed tertiary education in the National Education Database (NUDB) and relevant education is selected based on codes according to the The Norwegian Standard Classification of Education (NUS2000). T