Statistics Norway

Accounts for joint stock companies

6 Operating margin in per cent2
  1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
All non-financial joint-stock companies 6.0 7.3 10.2 8.7 7.6 10.1 16.3 20.2 23.2
Information sector 5.6 6.6 2.9 -2.9 -8.7 18.5 12.2 11.8 15.7
ICT-sector 5.7 6.1 1.8 -4.3 -12.1 18.7 13.3 12.5 15.1
ICT-Manufacturing industry 9.8 5.5 4.5 2.5 -0.9 7.3 7.9 11.1 10.8
ICT-Wholesale1 2.9 1.3 -5.5 -3.4 0.0 1-1.5 2.0 0.5 3.3
Telecommunications 9.9 14.2 16.1 2.2 -34.7 20.3 26.4 24.1 29.7
ICT-Consultancy services 2.2 3.4 -10.4 -18.4 -10.0 1.7 6.0 6.2 8.8
Content sector 5.2 6.6 7.1 3.4 5.3 8.2 8.9 9.7 18.1
Publishing industries 8.2 11.0 12.8 8.9 10.6 13.7 13.8 15.0 28.9
Information services 2.9 1.7 0.1 -2.7 -3.1 -0.9 2.6 2.7 4.2
Radio and television 1.7 1.1 2.5 -5.5 2.7 5.9 7.0 5.6 4.2
Motion picture and video activities -4.5 2.1 2.0 1.6 0.7 4.4 0.6 7.7 5.2
1  The delimitation of ICT-Wholesale is changed on and after 2003 because of changes in the industrial classification standard, see about statistics.
2  Operating result before tax in per cent of operating income.

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