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289 Full-time equivalent employment. Employees and self-employed. 1 000 full-time equivalents1
  1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2012*
Total industry 1 495.8 1 689.3 1 782.4 1 984.2 2 278.5 2 364.2
             
Agriculture and forestry  159.9  125.3 91.3 66.7 47.0 43.6
Fishing and aquaculture 22.8 18.7 20.0 16.9 12.7 13.2
Mining and quarrying 9.5 8.1 5.7 3.9 4.5 5.1
Oil and gas extraction including services 0.0 10.4 20.4 24.6 51.6 57.6
Oil and gas extraction 0.0 6.9 16.4 17.2 26.4 29.2
Service activities incidental to oil and gas 0.0 3.5 4.0 7.4 25.2 28.4
Manufacturing  344.4  326.9  253.7  257.9  230.5  231.6
Food products, beverages and tobacco 53.9 54.4 47.8 50.5 47.1 47.5
Textiles, wearing apparel, leather 33.1 18.4 9.0 7.0 4.3 4.1
Manufacture of wood and wood products, except furniture 26.6 27.3 18.5 14.9 13.4 13.3
Manufacture of paper and paper products 22.4 16.1 11.4 9.6 5.2 3.7
Printing and reproduction of recorded media 10.7 10.4 10.0 10.3 6.6 5.9
Refined petroleum, chemical and pharmaceutical products 18.0 17.9 17.4 15.9 13.8 13.3
Manufacture of basic chemicals etc 7.4 7.5 7.2 5.4 6.2 5.7
Rubber, plastic and mineral products 23.0 21.9 16.0 14.7 14.7 14.3
Basic metals 22.7 23.8 17.0 14.8 10.6 10.6
Machinery and other equipment n.e.c 72.1 71.6 57.3 61.0 60.5 63.1
Building of ships, oil platforms and moduls 31.6 36.6 26.6 34.1 26.7 28.1
Furniture and other manufacturing n.e.c 16.8 15.3 12.2 14.8 9.6 8.7
Repair and installation of machinery and equiment 13.5 13.4 10.6 10.2 18.1 19.0
Electricity, gas and steam 13.6 16.7 19.3 16.5 11.6 12.2
Water supply, sewerage, waste 4.3 5.6 6.0 8.5 13.7 14.0
Construction2  111.9  121.0  120.6  129.6  176.2  190.7
Wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor vehicles  218.7  252.7  254.5  270.0  296.7  306.2
Transport via pipelines 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.7 0.3 0.4
Ocean transport 53.5 37.3 37.4 44.0 45.7 44.9
Other transport acitivities 83.1 95.0 92.4  100.3  102.5  106.4
Postal and courier activities 14.3 20.9 27.4 27.1 17.6 16.8
Accomation and food service activities 32.2 33.3 47.1 56.7 62.8 64.9
Information and communcation 33.5 45.1 53.8 76.6 83.6 86.8
Financial and insurance activities 32.8 44.6 58.1 46.1 49.4 50.2
Real estate activities 1.7 2.7 4.9 14.0 20.1 21.0
Imputed rents of owner-occupied dwellings 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Professional, scientific and and technical activities 21.5 34.1 54.8 75.4  110.2  118.4
Administrative and support service activities 10.8 18.8 25.3 64.2  100.8  110.3
Public administration and defence  123.3  151.3  175.1  168.4  169.2  172.9
Education 80.7  103.9  129.1  150.2  177.6  181.2
Health and social work 90.9  171.5  227.9  301.5  419.2  438.3
Arts, entertainment and other service activities 32.5 45.6 57.3 64.4 75.0 77.6
             
Mainland Norway 1 442.3 1 641.6 1 724.3 1 914.8 2 180.9 2 261.4
General government  250.1  370.5  468.4  557.4  657.0  679.9
Central government3  109.8  127.4  142.7  148.2  260.8  267.1
Civilian central government 55.0 75.6 87.1  108.8  232.1  238.2
Defence 54.8 51.8 55.5 39.4 28.7 28.9
Local government  140.3  243.1  325.7  409.2  396.2  412.8
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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