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Table 1 Indicators of socioeconomic status (SES) and immigration in the western and north-eastern districts of Oslo

		Western districts of Oslo			North-eastern districts of Oslo
		Vestre Aker	Ullern	Frogner	Alna	Grorud	Stovner
Income	Average income (NOK^a) 2019^b	833 000	752 000	668 000	405 000	395 000	385 000
Income	Low income (%) 2017^c	9.4	8.3	15.9	18.4	18.9	22
Highest completed education	University or college (%) 2017	63.1	62.5	61.9	31.1	29.4	24.7
	Vocational school (%) 2017	2.5	2.7	2.4	2.1	2	1.7
	High School (%) 2017	21.9	23.1	23.1	33.9	34	35
	Primary school (%) 2017	12.6	11.7	12.6	32.9	34.6	38.7
Socioeconomic status^d		0.77	0.73	0.63	0.39	0.38	0.35
Social assistance recipients (%) 2016		1.7	1.5	3.1	3.1	5.3	4.9
Overcrowded individuals (%) 2019^e		8.2	8.7	16.1	29.3	27.4	26.8
Life expectancy at birth	Men (years) 2013–2017	83.4	82.4	81.8	79.3	77.4	80.2
Life expectancy at birth	Women (years) 2013–2017	87.2	85.4	84.5	83.2	81.4	83
Share of 1st and 2nd generation immigrants	Other than East-Europe (%) 2018^f	6.6	7.7	10.3	40.4	38.4	46.4
Share of 1st and 2nd generation immigrants	East-Europe (%) 2018	4.7	5.2	6.3	10.2	8.8	7.6

^a1 NOK ~ 0.10€/0.12$. ^bAverage annual gross income per inhabitant > 16 years old. ^cPercentage of inhabitants in private households with annual net income per consumption unit 60% below median income (EU-scale) excluding households consisting of students and children < 18 years old living alone. ^dA constructed formative measurement where the variables education, income, and employment are converted to the same scale, and the average of these variables are equally weighted. ^eThe number of rooms in the household is less than the number of people, or one person lives in one room and the number of square meters (p-areal) is less than 25 m² per person. ^fImmigrants from Asia, Africa, South- and Central-America, and Turkey

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