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Number of entrepreneurs in personally owned enterprises and private and public limited companies
20202019 - 20202018 - 2020
Number of entrepreneursSharePer centPer cent
1The number for the latest year is an estimate
Personal owned companies
Both sexes39 303100.0-0.79.9
Males24 34061.91.212.9
Females14 96338.1-3.75.3
 
Private and public limited companies195% CI lower bound95% CI upper bound
Both sexes34 98633 61736 35512.310.6
 
Males27 66426 67628 65379.012.09.1
Females7 3406 9417 73921.013.517.0
Sum35 004100.0

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Table 1 
Personal owned enterprises, by economic activity and sex. New established enterprises.

Personal owned enterprises, by economic activity and sex. New established enterprises.1
2020
Entrepreneurs totalShare of menShare of women
1Enterprises that only have enterprises as owners, or no registrated information about owners are not included in this statistics.
Total39 30361.938.1
 
Organisational structure
General Partnership22365.534.5
General Partnership with shared liability96574.125.9
Sole Proprietorship38 11561.638.4
 
Industrial activity
Agriculture, forestry and fishing0..
Mining and quarrying2272.727.3
Manufacturing1 35763.436.6
Electrisity-, gas-, steam and air conditioning supply2100.00.0
Water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation activities3278.121.9
Construction3 94795.54.5
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vechicles and motorcycles3 38964.335.7
Transportation and storage2 91891.98.1
Accomodation and food serving activities65757.542.5
Information and communication2 54082.317.7
Financial and insurance activities2281.818.2
Real estate activities57373.526.5
Proffesional, scientific and technical activities6 63361.039.0
Administrative and support service activities3 40561.238.8
Education3 07045.854.2
Human health and social work activities3 54834.365.7
Arts, entertainment and recreation4 21253.146.9
Other service activites2 65426.673.4
Activities of household as employers; undifferentiated goods- and services producing activities of households for own account250.050.0
Activities of extraterritorial organisations and bodies0..
Unknown32066.333.8

Table 2 
Personal owned enterprises, by owners age, education, national background and sex. New established enterprises.

Personal owned enterprises, by owners age, education, national background and sex. New established enterprises.1
2020
Sole proprietorshipOther personal owned enterprises2
Actors totalShare of menShare of womenActors totalShare of menShare of women
1Enterprises with only enterprises as owners, and enterprises with no information about owners, are not indluded in this statistics.
2Other personal owned enterprises refers to the organisational structures general partnership and general partnership with shared liability and
3Tertiary education, short, comprises higher education 4 years or shorter
4Tertiary education, long, comprises higher education more that 4 years
Total38 115100.0100.01 188100.0100.0
 
Age
16-24 years5 96916.115.025424.214.1
25-44 years21 07053.358.460048.057.2
45-66 years9 59825.624.530625.626.3
67 years or older1 4761.32.1282.32.4
Unknown age20.02.100.00.0
 
Level of education
Primary and lower secondary education (level 1-2)7 67923.814.321821.011.3
Upper secondary education (level 3-5)11 92835.025.345611.530.3
Tertial education, 4 years or less (level 6)39 12419.331.331422.935.8
Tertial education, more than 4 years (level 7-8)45 13010.917.615611.617.1
Other4 25411.011.4443.05.5
 
National background
Norway25 98368.667.598083.480.1
EU/EEA, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand4 1289.812.5513.56.4
Asia, Africa, Latin-Amerika, Oceania, except Australia and New Zealand and Europa except EU/EEA6 39917.116.314111.811.9
Non-Norwegian citizen, living outside of Norway1 6054.53.7161.31.5

Table 3 
Entrepreneurs in personally owned enterprises by economic activity and national background

Entrepreneurs in personally owned enterprises by economic activity and national background1
2020
Number of entrepreneursNorwayEU/EEA, USA, Canada, Australia and New ZealandAsia, Africa, Latin-Amerika, Oceania, except Australia and New Zealand and Europa except EU/EEANon-Norwegian citizen, living outside of Norway
1Enterpises that only have juristic persons (enterprises) as owners, or no registrated information about owners, are not included in statistics.
All industries39 30368.610.616.64.1
 
Mining and quarrying2295.50.00.04.5
Manufacture1 35778.89.99.91.5
Electricity, gas and steam2100.00.00.00.0
Water supply, sewerage, waste3265.615.66.312.5
Construction3 94762.617.88.910.7
Wholesale and retail trade: repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles3 38967.89.720.42.0
Transportation and storage2 91830.78.954.16.3
Accommodation and food service activities65738.510.447.83.3
Information and communication2 54077.68.111.82.5
Financial and insurance activities2290.94.54.50.0
Real estate activities57389.42.86.11.7
Professional, scientific and technical activities6 63378.09.110.32.6
Administrative and support service activities3 40558.614.122.25.1
Education3 07078.910.08.32.8
Human health and social work activities3 54876.07.712.93.4
Arts, entertainment and recreation4 21283.38.06.52.2
Personal service activities2 65454.216.023.56.3
Households as employers activities250.050.00.00.0
Extraterritorial organisations and bodies0....
Unspecified32062.29.425.33.1

Table 4 
Entrepreneurs that are persons in new established private and public limited companies , by education, age and gender

Entrepreneurs that are persons in new established private and public limited companies , by education, age and gender
20192020
Number of entrepreneursShare of menShare of womenNumber of entrepreneurs195% CI lower bound95% CI upper boundShare of menShare of women
1The number for the latest year is an estimate
Total31 15679.220.834 98633 61736 35579.121.0
 
Industries
Mining and quarrying4691.38.737334294.75.3
Manufacture73977.922.19789461 01079.120.9
Electricity, gas and steam5991.58.554486096.43.6
Water supply, sewerage, waste7790.99.1867110188.611.4
Construction4 45789.910.14 6814 5764 78689.310.7
Wholesale and retail trade: repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles3 40175.224.84 0393 9034 17474.625.4
Transportation and storage59885.814.268866371288.111.9
Accommodation and food service activities1 25069.730.31 3421 2911 39467.033.0
Information and communication1 93685.714.32 2972 2122 38385.214.8
Financial and insurance activities1 35480.419.620520021185.414.6
Real estate activities5 03182.417.65 1765 0355 31782.917.1
Professional, scientific and technical activities3 87776.823.24 3664 2354 49776.523.5
Administrative and support service activities1 61878.821.21 6931 6331 75380.419.6
Education53062.337.761757865659.041.0
Human health and social work activities84254.945.189586592456.843.2
Arts, entertainment and recreation74672.727.373071974273.526.5
Personal service activities54238.761.357355159546.553.5
Households as employers activities250.050.00....
Extraterritorial organisations and bodies0..0....
Unspecified4 05181.718.38 3407 2679 41278.921.1
Sum31 15636 797

Table 5 
Entrerpreneurs that are persons in newly established private and public limited companies, by education, age and sex

Entrerpreneurs that are persons in newly established private and public limited companies, by education, age and sex
20192020
Number of entrepreneursShare of menShare of womenNumber of entrepreneurs195% CI lower bound95% CI upper boundShare of menShare of women
1The number for the latest year is an estimate
2Tertiary education, short, comprises higher education more than 4 years
3Tertiary education, long, comprises higher education more than 4 years
4Other include persons with no completed education and those who haven't registrated any information about education
Total31 15679.220.834 98633 61736 35579.121.0
 
Level of education
Primary and lower secondary education (level 1-2)3 94683.017.04 3634 1284 59882.717.3
Upper secondary education (level 3-5)12 23484.915.113 55112 96414 13784.315.7
Tertial education, 4 years or less (level 6)28 40572.527.59 5559 1329 97872.627.4
Tertial education, more than 4 years (level 7-8)35 20573.926.16 1285 8116 44473.326.7
Other41 36679.420.61 5671 4241 71180.419.6
Sum31 15635 164
 
Age groups
16-24 years1 25682.217.81 5451 4101 68079.920.1
25-44 years15 84078.022.018 14317 33218 95377.822.2
45-66 years12 94180.020.014 05513 59914 51179.720.3
67 years or older1 11985.314.71 2221 1781 26586.913.1
Unknown age0..0....
Sum31 15634 965

Table 6 
Entrepreneurs that are enterprises in new established private and public limited companies, by the organisational structure, number of employees and and economic activity of the entrepreneur.

Entrepreneurs that are enterprises in new established private and public limited companies, by the organisational structure, number of employees and and economic activity of the entrepreneur.
20192020
Number of entrepreneursShare of entrepreneursNumber of entrepreneurs195% CI lower bound95% CI upper boundShare of entrepreneurs
1The number for the latest year is an estimate
Total4 407100.04 7953 9595 612100.0
 
Entrepreneur's organisational structure
Private limited company4 06391.84 4693 7325 19693.2
Public limited company741.73734410.8
Other legal form2906.62891933756.0
Sum4 427100.04 795100.0
 
Size (number of employees) of the entrepreneur
No one employeed2 37053.62 6462 4002 88655.2
1-4 employees77217.58366351 03217.4
5-9 employees3738.44132805438.6
10-19 employees2776.32931943926.1
20-49 employees2896.52632123155.5
50-99 employees1192.7148991933.1
100 - 249 employees1242.8102571472.1
250 employees and more962.294831052.0
Sum4 420100.04 795100.0
 
Economic activity of the entrepreneur
Agriculture, forestry and fishing431.04528610.9
Mining and quarrying150.3218340.4
Manufacture1162.61231021442.6
Electricity, gas and steam861.9107911232.2
Water supply, sewerage, waste240.52017240.4
Construction78317.776869983716.0
Wholesale and retail trade: repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles2485.62742303125.7
Transportation and storage1453.31451291573.0
Accommodation and food service activities701.68676951.8
Information and communication1974.51951612304.1
Financial and insurance activities1733.9180982623.8
Real estate activities1 20927.41 0871 0471 12722.7
Professional, scientific and technical activities4329.854641267911.4
Administrative and support service activities1413.21751412103.6
Public administration and defence: compulsory social security461.06036851.3
Education290.720-1400.4
Human health and social work activities571.36131871.3
Arts, entertainment and recreation671.594-11902.0
Personal service activities731.77248911.5
Households as employers activities00.00..0.0
Extraterritorial organisations and bodies00.00..0.0
Unspecified46610.571660982214.9
Sum4 420100.04 795100.0

About the statistics

Definitions

Definitions of the main concepts and variables

Enterprise
In the Standard for Industrial Classification (SN) an enterprise is defined as an organisational unit comprising all economic activities engaged in by the same owner. Hence, an enterprise is a legal entity covering one or more productive units. An establishment is defined as a local kind of activity unit, which mainly conducts activities within a special industry group.

Establishment
In SN an establishment is defined as a local kind of activity unit, which mainly is conducting activities within a special industry group.

New enterprise
A new enterprise in a given period is an enterprise registered with dates that indicate start-up in this period. The registration of a legal unit in the Central Coordination Register for Legal Entities counts as a new registration if the registered information assumes that the unit is to be operated as an industrial activity. See 3.1.

Newly established enterprise
The number of newly established enterprises is the number of new enterprises corrected for the change of ownership. This means that new enterprises that take over existing activity are not counted as newly established enterprises, but as new enterprises.

Survival
A new established enterprise in year t is considered to have survived in t+n (n>=1) if it is active in terms of turnover and/or employment in any part of t+n. This means the enterprise will be found in the annual population (of active enterprises) in t+n.

Two kinds of survival can be distinguished:

1. Direct survival. A new established enterprise in year t has survived directly in t+n (n>=1) if the enterprise is active in terms of turnover or employment in t+n.

2. Survival by take-over. A new established enterprise is also considered survived if it has ceased to be active, but its activity has been taken over by another new enterprise set up specifically to take over the factors of production of the first enterprise.

New established enterprises which are merged or taken over by an existing enterprise (not a new one) are not considered to have survived.

The new established enterprise will keep its economic activity code, size class and legal form of the year of registration of the enterprise.

Growth
Growth in survived enterprises is measured in the number of persons employed. Some of the new established enterprises may not have any registered activity in the year of registration. As a result the number of employees in year t will be low and the growth in t+1 large.

Organization form
Structure registered in BR. A distinction is made between sole proprietorships, public limited companies, general partnerships etc.

Personally owned enterprises
Personally owned enterprises refer to the organisational structures sole proprietorships, general partnerships and general partnerships with shared liability.

General partnership and general partnership with shared liability
Must have at least two partners, and these partners are known as partners with joint liability and partners with unlimited liability respectively. The partners are personally and economically responsible. In a general partnership, all partners can be claimed for the total debt of the company, but in a general partnership with shared liability every partner is personally liable for a certain part of the company's debt. In total, the partners are liable for the whole debt. Both physical persons and body cooperates can be partners. Having a board and/or manager is optional. In the tables, only the enterprises with physical persons as partners are included, and only the active roles are included.

Sole proprietorship
A sole proprietorship must have one, and only one, owner. The owner is fully and personally responsible for the whole establishment, and needs to be a physical person. It is possible to employ a manager who is someone other than the owner.

Public limited company and private limited company
These are organisational structures in which none of the owners have personal responsibility for the company's liability. The owners' responsibility for the company's debt is restricted to the share capital. A private limited company cannot, unlike a public limited company, receive share capital from the public.

All public limited companies and private limited companies must have a board of directors. This board must as a main rule consist of at least three members. In limited companies that have less than NOK 3 million in share capital, the board can consist of two members in addition to a deputy. All public limited companies and private limited companies with share capital of more than NOK 3 million must in addition have a manager.

Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur is defined as a person, an enterprise or a combination of different types of shareholders.

An enterprise can have one or more entrepreneurs. A limited company can have one or several shareholders. The entrepreneur may be the person who had the business idea, a shareholder, or the person who runs the enterprise.

The method aims to identify the shareholders in an enterprise who have a considerable share of the capital stock, or who have the role as either general manager or member of the board. If a new enterprise is owned by other enterprises and the other enterprises are owned solely by private individuals, the entrepreneur is identified among these individuals. If the other enterprises do not only have private individuals as shareholders, the entrepreneur will be among the enterprises that are shareholders in the new enterprise.

The entrepreneur in personally-owned companies: sole proprietorship, general partnership and general partnership with shared liability, is defined as the owner(s) of the enterprise at the time of set up.

Age
Refers to age at the end of the year.

Immigrants includes persons who have two foreign-born parents and are born outside Norway themselves. In addition persons born in Norway with parents born outside Norway are also included in these statistics.

National background is the person's own, their mother's or possibly their father's country of birth. Persons without an immigrant background only have Norway (000) as their national background. When both parents are born abroad they are in most cases born in the same country. In cases where the parents have different countries of birth the mother's country of birth is chosen

Employees
The number of employees comprises all persons that work for an employer more than 4 hours a week. Persons with more than one job may be counted as employed in several industries. The population shows the number of employees at the time of counting.

Employment (Persons employed)
All employees and owners make up the employment. The figures show an average number of employees at the end of 5 selected months in the year, and may deviate from what is published in the Labour Force Survey (AKU) and the National Accounts (NR) because sources and average calculations differ. In industries where employment cannot be collected through the data collection for the SBS, the number of employees is calculated based on number of employees in the CRE. Persons with more than one type of employment may be counted as employed in several industries.

Turnover
Turnover is defined as the sum of remuneration of sale to customers, sale of commercial goods and gross income from other industry activities. The turnover includes rental income and commissions receivable, but not public assistance or gain by sale of fixed assets. VAT is not included in the figures. In certain industries the turnover concept is not clearly defined, and for these industries the turnover is not published. For units in industries that are included in the SBS the turnover is collected from these. In other industries the turnover is collected from administrative sources (VAT or annual accounts).

Standard classifications

The current Standard for Industrial Classification (SN2007) in Statistics Norway is based on EC's standards NACE Rev.1.

Norwegian Standard Classification of Education (NUS2000)
The Norwegian Standard Classification of Education, which was created by Statistics Norway in 1970.

Statistics Norway's use of terms in immigrant-related statistics are from the Immigrant Classification Standard (Statistics Norway 1994).

Administrative information

Name and topic

Name: Entrepreneurs in business enterprise sector
Topic: Establishments, enterprises and accounts

Responsible division

Division for Business Dynamics Statistics

Regional level

National level, county and municipality.

Frequency and timeliness

Frequency: Annually

Timeliness: Statistics on entrepreneurs in newly established personally owned enterprises 2003 was published for the first time in 2004. Statistics on entrepreneurs in limited companies are published from the reference year 2004. The statistical population of limited companies is temporary the first year of publishing and final numbers are published the following year.

Statistics on survival and growth in newly established personally owned enterprises were published for the first time in 2006 for the statistical year 2002. Entrepreneurs in limited companies were published for the statistical year 2004 in 2007.

The focus is the entrepreneurs characteristics like gender, age, education and national background.

International reporting

Not relevant.

Microdata

Micro data, information about sampled units and population are temporarily stored in the program language SAS and long term as text files.

Background

Background and purpose

The units and structures in the Central Register of Establishments and Enterprises (CRE) are entered into most large nationwide administrative data systems, such as the Register for Employers/Employees. The information about roles in the Central Coordination Register for Legal Entities in Brønnøysund (BR) and shareholders in Directorate of Taxes' Register of Shareholders provides the corresponding connection to the enterprises through organisation number and to the population through national identity number. This makes it possible to make statistics on entrepreneurs.

The first part of the statisics focus on the entrepreneurs gender, age, education and national backgroud. The other part focus on the entrepreneur by looking at the enterprises survival and growth measured in employees and turnover.

Users and applications

The users of these statistics are public authorities, ministries, research institutions, industry and the media.

Equal treatment of users

Not relevant

Coherence with other statistics

The figures that are presented will deviate from the number of legal units in the Central Coordination Register for Legal Entities, and may on an industrial level deviate from what is presented in the structure statistics. The deviation in relation to the Central Coordination Register for Legal Entities is mainly caused by the fact that it comprises all legal units, including those that are not conducting industrial activities, and that CRE controls to find out whether an enterprise has activity or not.

The statistics on entrepreneurs in business enterprise sector may also deviate from Statistics Norway's other statistics on enterprises. The reason for this is that these statistics only include enterprises where the entrepreneurs are identified.

Legal authority

Not relevant

EEA reference

Not relevant

Production

Population

Enterprise statistics based on annual populations comprise all industries according to NACE standards (see 4.2) except public administration and defence (industry 84). The primary industries (industry 01, 02 and 03) are also excluded.

The statistics is demarcated in relation to public and social security administration, counties and municipalities. Enterprises within this section of public administration (administration and services) are not included in the statistics even if they formally are supposed to conduct activities sorted under industries included in the statistics. For industries that are characterised by a mixture of public and private services, the population may seem insufficient since public services are excluded from the statistics. This is especially the case for electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply,
water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities, education and human health and social work activities

The Central Bank of Norway, public lending institutions, enterprises within public business operations, publicly-owned enterprises, municipal business operations and independent municipal enterprises are included in the statistics if they conduct activities within the industries that are covered by the statistics. In theory, this is also the case for enterprises within all other institutional sectors.

The population comprises all limited companies, sole proprietorships, general partnerships and general partnerships with shared liabilities. General parnerships and genereal partnerships with shared liabilities with only body cooperates are excluded.

information about shareholders in public and private limited companies are found in the stock statistics, which are based on Directorate of Taxes' Register of Shareholders. The statistics are limited to shareholders identified by personal identification number (personal shareholders) who owned shares on 31 December.

Data sources and sampling

The numbers are based on the Central Register of Establishments and Enterprises (CRE), information on roles from the Central Coordination Register for Legal Entities and population register data. The Division for Labour Market Statistics provides the number of employees. We also use stock statistics, which are based on Directorate of Taxes' Register of Shareholders

Central Register of Establishments and Enterprises (CRE). The Central Register of Establishments and Enterprises (CRE) is Statistics Norway's register of all enterprises (juridical units) and establishments in the private and public sector in Norway. The CRE is to be a complete and correct register, which forms the basis for a common population for economical and industrial statistics as well as statistics on persons.

Data are collected from structure business statistics (SBS) and from other administrative registers, i.e. VAT, accounting data and income tax returns from independent businesses in order to limit the population in relation to enterprises that in reality have ceased to exist.

Information about roles from Central Coordination Register for Legal Entities provides a survey of all physical persons and body cooperates that have roles in the Norwegian business enterprise sector. The physical persons are registered by national identity number or with a D-number, while the body cooperates are enterprises that are registered by organisation number. No one can register an enterprise in BR without also registering roles. The different types of organisational structures have different requirements concerning the roles. See 4.1.

Information about the physical person is updated continuously, and information is compared against the Central Population Register every 24 hours.

BeReg
The statistics is based on population register data. Since 1946, each municipality has had a local population registry that registers all residents in the municipality pursuant to the Population Registration Act and its regulations. The population registries receive reports of births, deaths, marriages, divorces, migration etc. from various sources.

Populations highest level of education and NUDB
The Register of the Population's Highest Level of Education (BHU) is now drawn directly from the Norwegian National Education Database (NUDB). NUDB collects all statistics on ongoing and completed education from 1974/75 and BHU since 1970 in a common database. The basis of the BHU is people 16 years and above registered as resident in Norway as of 1 October in the corresponding year. The educational activity with the highest level in the Norwegian Standard Classification of Education (NUS2000), which is registered in NUDB, gives the status for the highest level of attained education. In cases with more than one educational activity, the programme is selected with the highest level in the Norwegian Standard Classification of Education (NUS2000).

Directorate of Taxes' Register of Shareholders. Starting in 2004 the statistics are based on data from the Directorate of Taxes' Register of Shareholders.The registers consist of all Norwegian limited companies, specifying the number of shares issued, the share capital, the share premium, and proposed and paid dividend. In addition the register gives information about the shareholders and received dividends

Not relevant

Collection of data, editing and estimations

The statistics uses only administrative data and already existing statistical registers.

The Central Register of Establishments and Enterprises (CRE) is a comprehensive register and its quality is ensured in relation to population and basic characteristics like addresses, legal form and industry codes.

The quality of the population of active enterprises is taken care of among other things by directly contacting units in connection with the data capture for the SBS and through links toward administrative registers in the monitoring system for establishments in the CRE. See also 3.2.

The quality regarding the industry code for establishments and enterprises is continuously taken care of. This takes place by contacting the enterprises in SN's SBS-surveys, through administrative sources such as the National Insurance administration's annual check, and in other ways through direct contact with the enterprises. Furthermore with the help of statements of purposes with the Central Coordination Register for Legal Entities.

Not relevant

Seasonal adjustment

Not relevant

Confidentiality

Not relevant

Comparability over time and space

The statistics is published every year so that the results are comparable.

Accuracy and reliability

Sources of error and uncertainty

Not relevant

Not relevant

Not relevant

Enterprise statistics
The statistics is based on statistical and administrative sources. Several administrative sources are instrumental in the work of updating the CRE, and are used both to define the population and to collect characteristics and information: the Central Coordination Register for Legal Entities, the VAT Register and the Register for Employers/Employees are used to collect information about the units. This may cause register errors that can affect the uncertainty of the statistics.

A possible source for errors is out-of-date information caused by lags in the registration. Such lags are caused by the fact that changes are often registered some time after they have occurred. The consequence is that the registers are not always up-to-date, which can lead to outdated information being used as a basis for the statistics.

Discontinuances of activities are normally registered after they have taken place, based on information in connection with the collection of data for structure statistics or by links to administrative registers. As a consequence, the population may be too high.

In connection with new registrations the respondent is to state whether this is a new activity or a change in ownership. In cases where such information is lacking a duplicate check against existing enterprises is carried out &– in order to identify possible ownership changes. All changes are not intercepted in these routines, and the number of new establishment is assumed to be somewhat high seen in relation to the number of new registrations.

Population statistics
The quality of the data from the Central Population Register is generally very good for statistical purposes, however one relevant complaint is delayed reporting. Delayed reporting can lead to some events being registered and counted in the wrong year.

The Central Population Register consists of persons with a Norwegian national identity number or a D-number. Some of the persons with a D-number are persons living abroad, while working in Norway. These persons will not be issued with a national identity number, but persons immigrating to Norway will get a national identity number after a period of time. It can therefore be difficult to distinguish between immigrants who have moved to Norway and persons living abroad. Another problem could be persons who change their national identity number as a consequence of new information about their date of birth.

Education statistics
Education statistics consists only of persons living in Norway who have taken their education in Norway.

Revision

Not relevant