Register study of migrants’ hospitalization in Norway: world region origin, reason for migration, and length of stay

Table 2 Migrants’ hospitalization 2008–2011 by reason for migration, world region origin, and immigration period

		Any hospital admission (%), age and gender standardized^a					Number of admissions per 1000 personyears, age and gender standardized^a
Reason for migration	Immigration period/region origin	All periods	2005–2007	2001–2004	1996–2000	1990–1995	All periods	2005–2007	2001–2004	1996–2000	1990–1995
Work	Western countries	21.2	19.0	20.7	23.0	23.4	66	71	68	63	68
	EU East Europe	14.8	13.7	24.0	(20.6)	(17.0)	39	37	55	(49)	(74)
	Other countries	19.3	11.9	17.3	26.6	18.3	55	29	53	78	67
	All region origins	19.2	15.8	20.3	23.6	19.4	56	50	62	65	67
Family	Western countries	22.2	20.6	24.2	21.7	20.7	76	70	82	75	76
	EU East Europe	23.4	20.6	19.8	25.5	24.5	96	113	68	100	110
	Other East Europe	24.7	26.0	24.2	26.8	20.6	71	63	74	72	65
	Africa	29.1	36.4	25.2	28.1	29.8	101	136	109	95	99
	West and South Asia	29.3	29.3	32.5	29.0	27.8	113	97	106	128	107
	Other Asia	22.1	19.2	23.9	22.6	21.8	84	71	111	93	75
	Latin America	27.5	26.3	25.9	25.2	29.7	82	75	61	77	97
	All region origins	24.9	23.2	26.3	25.5	23.7	88	81	94	92	85
Refugees	Other East Europe	30.6	40.1	33.6	30.4	29.6	117	150	119	126	112
	Africa	32.5	36.4	33.9	28.7	31.8	120	133	129	98	117
	West and South Asia	36.6	40.0	40.4	37.5	32.3	160	140	175	164	146
	Other Asia	30.1	36.1	33.4	31.2	24.6	120	147	141	131	91
	All region origins	32.4	37.1	35.7	33.1	29.4	127	143	144	137	114
Unknown	All region origins	27.1	23.2	26.6	26.9	26.1	104	101	109	108	98
Total	All region origins	26.4	22.1	28.2	28.2	26.7	100	79	110	111	100

^aAge and gender standardization for each immigration period and each region origin. Standard population = native Norwegians, age 30–69, per 1 January 2008. Estimations based on subsamples with less than 200 individuals in parentheses

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