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209 Employed persons, by main activity. Employees and self-employed. 1 0001
  1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2012*
Employed persons, total 1 641.4 1 948.9 2 058.8 2 319.7 2 590.4 2 681.60
             
Agriculture and forestry  187.2  143.5  105.8 77.2 54.7 50.9
Fishing and aquaculture 24.8 20.4 21.8 18.4 14.6 15.2
Mining and quarrying 9.3 8.1 5.7 4.0 4.7 5.4
Oil and gas extraction including services 0.0 10.9 21.3 25.7 52.8 59.0
Oil and gas extraction 0.0 7.2 17.1 17.9 26.8 29.7
Service activities incidental to oil and gas 0.0 3.7 4.2 7.8 26.0 29.3
Manufacturing  361.4  352.3  270.0  275.0  246.7  247.7
Food products, beverages and tobacco 56.7 60.3 52.8 56.0 52.2 52.6
Textiles, wearing apparel, leather 37.1 21.9 10.3 8.0 4.8 4.6
Manufacture of wood and wood products, except furniture 27.7 29.1 19.6 15.7 14.4 14.4
Manufacture of paper and paper products 23.1 16.8 11.7 9.8 5.6 4.0
Printing and reproduction of recorded media 13.1 13.1 11.9 12.3 7.1 6.4
Refined petroleum, chemical and pharmaceutical products 19.2 19.1 18.3 16.7 14.4 13.8
Manufacture of basic chemicals etc 8.0 8.0 7.6 5.7 6.3 5.9
Rubber, plastic and mineral products 23.8 23.4 16.9 15.6 15.6 15.2
Basic metals 22.9 24.2 17.3 15.1 11.2 11.1
Machinery and other equipment n.e.c 74.9 76.3 59.6 63.8 63.4 66.2
Building of ships, oil platforms and moduls 31.3 37.1 27.4 35.2 28.7 30.2
Furniture and other manufacturing n.e.c 18.3 17.2 13.5 16.3 10.4 9.4
Repair and installation of machinery and equiment 13.6 13.7 10.8 10.6 18.8 19.8
Electricity, gas and steam 14.0 17.4 20.2 17.3 12.4 13.0
Water supply, sewerage, waste 4.3 5.6 6.3 9.2 14.3 14.6
Construction2  114.6  126.6  125.1  134.7  187.0  201.4
Wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor vehicles  249.7  304.2  304.8  327.1  368.7  375.3
Transport via pipelines 0.0 0.0 0.4 0.8 0.3 0.4
Ocean transport 54.0 37.7 37.9 44.6 46.8 45.9
Other transport acitivities 85.3 99.0 98.0  107.5  108.2  112.3
Postal and courier activities 14.7 23.1 34.1 32.2 21.0 20.1
Accomation and food service activities 38.6 45.2 62.1 74.8 80.0 82.7
Information and communcation 38.4 53.4 61.4 84.6 85.7 88.9
Financial and insurance activities 34.6 48.9 63.2 49.9 51.5 52.3
Real estate activities 2.0 3.3 5.8 16.5 23.0 24.0
Imputed rents of owner-occupied dwellings 0.6 0.8 1.1 0.0 0.0 0.0
Professional, scientific and and technical activities 24.0 38.4 60.7 83.7  115.9  124.3
Administrative and support service activities 12.8 27.7 35.4 85.5  113.3  123.3
Public administration and defence  127.2  162.0  189.5  182.0  183.8  187.6
Education 90.1  121.8  149.9  177.2  194.0  198.1
Health and social work  112.1  238.5  307.7  412.4  524.7  549.5
Arts, entertainment and other service activities 41.7 60.3 70.8 79.4 86.5 89.5
             
Mainland Norway 1 587.5 1 900.3 1 999.3 2 248.5 2 490.5 2 576.3
General government  278.2  452.4  568.3  693.1  775.1  804.0
Central government3  110.6  132.5  149.7  157.0  279.5  285.9
Civil activities 55.9 80.5 93.7  117.3  250.1  256.2
Defence activities 54.7 52.0 56.0 39.7 29.4 29.7
Local government3  167.6  319.9  418.6  536.1  495.6  518.1
1  The figures are revised back to 1970.
2  As of 2001, local government own-account construction activities were reclassified as secondary activities of other local government industries.
3  As of 2002, specialist health services were transferred from local to central government.
Source:  National accounts, Statistics Norway.
More information:  http://www.ssb.no/en/nr 

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