Accommodation and food service activities, structural business statistics, 2003, preliminary figures

Highest turnover in restaurants

Norwegian restaurants employed close to 46 300 persons and had a turnover of NOK 19.6 billion in 2003. The restaurants accounted for about 48 per cent of the total turnover for the enterprises in the hotel and restaurant industry division in 2003, and almost 54 per cent of the employed people.

In the same period the hotel enterprises had a turnover of NOK 14.5 billion. That is a decrease of 1.6 per cent compared with final figures for 2002.

Preliminary figures

The preliminary figures for number of enterprises, turnover and employment are published while data are still being revised and may therefore deviate somewhat from final results published at a later date. While preliminary figures are published on the enterprise level only, final results are published on both the enterprise level and the local kind-of-activity unit level.

The employment figures are compiled according to definitions given by the EU regulation on structural business statistics and is measured as an annual average. Persons with more than one job are counted as an employee in several enterprises. More detailed information about this and other definitions used in the structural business statistics for hotels and restaurants, is available in "About the statistics".

Tables:

• Table 1 Hotels and restaurants. Enterprises, employment and turnover, by industry group. Final figures 2002 and preliminary figures 2003