Statistics Norway

Information and communication, structural business statistics

1 Information and communication. Enterprises, employment and turnover, by industry group. Final figures 2007 and preliminary figures 2008
Industry group Enterprises Employment1 Turnover2
2007 2008 2007 2008 2007 2008
          *NOK million
58 Publishing activities, total3 2 250 2 503 24 234 24 587 41 358 43 041
58.1 Publishing of books, periodicals and other publishing activities 3 1 388 1 668 17 351 17 114 30 720 30 545
58.2 Software publishing  862  835 6 883 7 473 10 638 12 496
59 Motion picture, video and television programme production, sound recording and music publishing activities, total3 2 436 2 662 3 849 4 027 6 721 7 280
59.1 Motion picture, video and television programme activities 2 100 2 152 3 410 3 562 5 791 6 288
59.2 Sound recording and music publishing activities3  336  510  439  465  930  992
60 Programming and broadcasting activities, total  196  191 5 905 5 906 8 478 9 352
60.1 Radio broadcasting  148  141  579  549  677  710
60.2 Television programming and broadcasting activities 48 50 5 326 5 357 7 801 8 642
61 Telecommunications , total  681  689 13 199 13 476 62 698 64 439
61.1 Wired telecommunications activities  366  345 9 153 9 118 30 396 31 463
61.1 Wireless telecommunications activities  141  146 2 890 3 128 27 248 27 532
61.3 Satellite telecommunications activities 21 25  541  572 3 521 3 985
61.9 Other telecommunications activities  153  173  615  658 1 533 1 460
62 Computer programming; consultancy and related activities , total 7 905 8 053 30 332 32 191 46 964 51 614
63 Information service activities , total 1 194 1 193 3 728 3 698 5 677 5 810
63.1 Data processing, hosting and related activities; web portals  750  808 2 781 2 884 4 175 4 495
63.9 Other information service activities  444  385  947  814 1 501 1 315
1  Average number of persons during the year.
2  Exclusive of VAT.
3  The figures for 2007 within publishing of books, periodicals and other publishing activities (58.1), sound recording and music publishing activities (59.2) and aggregated figures in which they enter, are not directly comparable to subsequent years, especially when counting enterprises.

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