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 2011 2012 Change in percentage points from the previous year1
  2010 2011 2nd quarter 3rd quarter 4th quarter 1st quarter 2nd quarter 3rd quarter
01-96 Total 2.5 2.8 3.2 2.7 2.5 2.8 2.9 2.4 -0.3
01-03 Agriculture, forestry and fishing 1.0 1.9 1.7 2.5 1.4 1.2 0.9 0.8 -1.7
05-09 Mining and quarrying 2.1 3.5 3.5 3.2 3.8 3.8 4.1 3.5 0.2
10-33 Manufacturing 1.4 1.9 2.1 1.8 1.7 2.4 2.1 1.8 -
35-39 Power and water supply 1.8 2.1 2.4 1.7 2.2 2.1 1.9 1.8 -
41-43 Construction 2.8 2.6 2.9 2.3 2.5 2.4 2.1 2.0 -0.3
45-47 Domestic trade 1.9 2.1 2.3 2.6 1.8 2.0 1.9 1.9 -0.8
49-53 Transport and storage 1.5 1.6 1.5 1.6 1.1 1.5 1.4 1.8 0.2
55-56 Accomodation and food service activities 2.3 3.0 4.9 2.7 1.4 3.1 3.1 3.0 0.3
58-63 Information and communication 2.9 3.7 4.0 3.4 3.1 4.2 4.0 3.6 0.2
64-66 Financial and insurance activities 2.2 2.3 2.9 1.8 1.6 1.7 1.4 1.3 -0.5
68 Real estate activities 2.5 3.3 3.5 2.9 3.6 2.5 2.4 2.1 -0.8
69-75 Professional, scientific and technical activities 3.5 4.2 4.0 3.8 4.6 3.3 4.0 3.0 -0.8
77-82 Administrative and support service activities 5.1 6.8 7.8 6.6 5.7 7.5 6.9 6.1 -0.6
84 Public administration 2.5 2.4 2.3 2.2 2.2 3.0 2.7 2.5 0.3
85 Education 1.8 1.5 2.4 1.3 1.1 2.0 3.2 1.2 -0.1
86 Human health activities 2.0 2.0 2.5 1.9 1.9 2.1 2.3 2.0 0.2
87 Residential care activities 5.5 5.8 6.0 5.6 5.5 4.6 4.2 3.2 -2.3
88 Social work activities without accommodation 2.8 2.7 3.5 2.2 2.4 1.8 3.2 2.2 0.1
90-93 Arts, entertainment and recreation 2.3 1.8 1.9 1.6 2.0 2.0 1.6 2.1 0.5
94-96 Other service activities 2.6 2.4 2.1 3.0 2.3 2.6 2.4 2.2 -0.8
1  Discrepancies may occur due to rounding.

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