Statistics Norway

Job vacancies

2 Job vacancy rate, by major industry division. Percentage of job vacancies in relation to the number of posts (job vacancies and occupied posts) in each group
  Annual average 2010 2011 Endring i prosentpoeng frå året før1
  2010 2011 3. kvartal 4. kvartal 1. kvartal 2. kvartal 3. kvartal 4. kvartal
01-96 Total 2.5 2.8 2.6 2.3 2.8 3.2 2.7 2.5 0.2
01-03 Agriculture, forestry and fishing 1.0 1.9 0.9 0.7 1.8 1.7 2.5 1.4 0.7
05-09 Mining and quarrying 2.1 3.5 2.2 2.7 3.3 3.5 3.2 3.8 1.1
10-33 Manufacturing 1.4 1.9 1.6 1.4 2.1 2.1 1.8 1.7 0.3
35-39 Power and water supply 1.8 2.1 1.5 1.2 2.1 2.4 1.7 2.2 1.0
41-43 Construction 2.8 2.6 3.2 3.0 2.8 2.9 2.3 2.5 -0.5
45-47 Domestic trade 1.9 2.1 2.5 1.3 1.6 2.3 2.6 1.8 0.5
49-53 Transport and storage 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.4 2.1 1.5 1.6 1.1 -0.3
55-56 Accomodation and food service activities 2.3 3.0 2.8 1.3 3.0 4.9 2.7 1.4 0.1
58-63 Information and communication 2.9 3.7 2.7 3.3 4.1 4.0 3.4 3.1 -0.2
64-66 Financial and insurance activities 2.2 2.3 1.7 1.9 2.7 2.9 1.8 1.6 -0.3
68 Real estate activities 2.5 3.3 3.1 3.2 2.9 3.5 2.9 3.6 0.4
69-75 Professional, scientific and technical activities 3.5 4.2 3.4 3.5 4.4 4.0 3.8 4.6 1.1
77-82 Administrative and support service activities 5.1 6.8 5.3 5.0 6.9 7.8 6.6 5.7 0.7
84 Public administration 2.5 2.4 2.3 2.0 2.6 2.3 2.2 2.2 0.2
85 Education 1.8 1.5 1.1 1.3 1.3 2.4 1.3 1.1 -0.2
86 Human health activities 2.0 2.0 1.8 2.2 2.0 2.5 1.9 1.9 -0.3
87 Residential care activities 5.5 5.8 5.3 4.9 6.0 6.0 5.6 5.5 0.6
88 Social work activities without accommodation 2.8 2.7 2.7 2.2 2.6 3.5 2.2 2.4 0.2
90-93 Arts, entertainment and recreation 2.3 1.8 2.6 1.6 1.6 1.9 1.6 2.0 0.5
94-96 Other service activities 2.6 2.4 2.7 1.8 2.3 2.1 3.0 2.3 0.5
1  Discrepancies may occur due to rounding.

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