Table 4 Forest area with young forest tended, by county and size of productive forest area. 2007*

4 Forest area with young forest tended, by county and size of productive forest area¹. 2007*
	Properties¹ with young forest tended			Area with young forest tended, by labour category. Per cent

	Number of properties	As per cent of all forest properties	Area with young forest tended. Decares	Owner and unpaid family members	Hired labour	Contractor or others who undertook the work at a fixed price

2003	12 748	15	294 966	56	25	18
2007*	13 186	16	487 218	44	22	34

2007*
Østfold	724	21	30 340	31	31	38
Akershus/Oslo	702	22	36 782	31	30	39
Hedmark	1 352	18	103 332	21	26	53
Oppland	966	13	37 138	36	22	42
Buskerud	1 315	24	58 549	37	28	35
Vestfold	825	38	23 198	61	14	25
Telemark	1 052	21	36 225	51	18	32
Aust-Agder	807	25	34 039	56	6	38
Vest-Agder	718	17	17 558	73	9	18
Rogaland	250	9	7 656	33	7	60
Hordaland	443	8	6 974	92	4	4
Sogn og Fjordane	396	9	4 671	90	10	0
Møre og Romsdal	614	12	14 478	63	17	20
Sør-Trøndelag	520	10	14 059	72	20	8
Nord-Trøndelag	1 024	22	34 301	56	35	9
Nordland	675	10	15 563	55	32	13
Troms Romsa/Finnmark Finnmárku	805	14	12 355	85	6	9

Productive forest area
-249 decares	3 268	10	52 440	73	6	20
250-499 decares	3 236	15	66 193	66	13	21
500-999 decares	3 004	20	82 582	56	16	28
1 000-1 999 decares	1 784	23	73 761	52	16	32
2 000-4 999 decares	1 283	38	82 912	44	20	36
5 000-19 999 decares	464	51	67 093	14	30	56
20 000- decares	147	66	62 235	1	56	43

¹	Includes properties with at least 100 decares productive forest area.