Statistics Norway
42 Employed persons by industry. Employees and self-employed. 1000
  1997 1998 1999 98:2 98:3 98:4 99:1 99:2 99:3 99:4
Total 2 212.6 2 265.9 2 280.7 2 267.1 2 286.3 2 269.6 2 266.2 2 282.7 2 292.7 2 280.9
                     
Agriculture and hunting 77.5 76.0 74.3 78.0 77.0 74.8 72.4 75.9 74.8 74.1
Forestry and logging 5.9 5.8 5.5 6.4 5.9 5.3 5.0 6.1 5.4 5.5
Fishing and fish farming 17.8 17.5 16.8 17.6 19.7 15.8 15.3 16.5 19.4 16.2
Oil and gas extraction incl. services 22.5 22.4 21.8 21.9 22.8 23.2 22.5 21.4 21.6 21.7
Oil and gas extraction 16.2 15.5 14.8 15.4 15.8 15.6 15.6 14.7 14.6 14.3
Service activities incidental to oil and gas ext 6.3 6.9 7.0 6.6 7.1 7.5 6.9 6.7 7.1 7.4
Mining and quarrying 4.3 4.3 4.1 4.3 4.4 4.3 4.1 4.2 4.1 4.0
Manufacturing 317.4 319.5 311.0 321.7 320.2 316.5 315.7 314.9 310.6 302.9
Food products, beverages and tobacco 55.4 54.6 52.8 55.0 54.3 54.1 53.5 53.1 52.4 52.2
Textiles,wearing apparel, leather 9.9 9.7 8.6 9.3 9.7 9.9 9.1 8.9 8.4 8.1
Wood and wood products 17.3 17.1 16.5 17.2 17.8 16.2 16.2 16.6 17.3 15.8
Pulp, paper and paper products 10.7 10.8 10.2 11.2 11.2 10.2 9.9 10.8 10.6 9.6
Publishing, printing, reproduction 42.0 42.1 41.7 42.8 41.3 42.7 42.0 41.6 41.5 41.7
Refined petroleum products 1.4 1.3 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.4 1.2 1.2 1.3 1.2
Basic chemicals 8.3 8.4 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.4 8.2 8.2 8.2 8.4
Chemical and mineral products 23.3 23.4 23.3 23.6 23.3 22.6 23.4 23.9 23.4 22.4
Basic metals 16.6 16.8 16.5 17.0 17.1 17.0 15.9 16.9 17.1 16.2
Machinery and other equipment n.e.c 81.0 81.6 79.7 81.7 82.6 80.5 82.6 80.3 78.9 76.8
Building of ships, oil platforms and moduls 36.1 37.5 36.8 38.0 37.1 37.9 37.9 37.5 36.3 35.3
Furniture and other manufacturing n.e.c 15.6 16.1 15.5 16.2 16.0 15.8 15.8 15.7 15.2 15.2
Electricity and gas supply 19.0 18.2 17.6 18.2 18.3 18.1 17.4 18.0 17.6 17.4
Construction 115.0 123.3 123.1 123.4 124.8 124.2 122.6 123.9 124.0 122.0
Service industries excl. general government 955.4 988.3 1 002.8 990.3 1 002.0 990.1 992.8 1 003.0 1 009.2 1 005.9
Wholesale and retail trade 310.7 319.0 323.2 322.0 321.4 317.8 322.9 322.6 323.4 323.7
Hotels and restaurants 62.1 64.1 65.0 63.8 66.8 65.2 62.5 65.8 66.5 65.2
Transport via pipelines 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.4 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.3
Water transport 50.3 52.3 53.9 52.2 53.2 51.8 53.1 53.8 55.0 53.8
Ocean transport 41.5 43.2 44.7 43.1 43.7 43.0 44.3 44.6 45.2 44.9
Inland water and costal transport 8.9 9.0 9.2 9.1 9.5 8.8 8.8 9.3 9.8 8.9
Other transport activities 91.0 94.8 95.9 93.5 95.8 97.0 96.3 96.4 95.2 95.6
Post and telecommunications 51.7 52.9 52.8 52.6 53.9 52.5 52.4 52.9 53.2 52.5
Financial intermediation 49.8 48.3 48.2 48.6 48.4 47.4 47.4 48.2 48.4 48.6
Dwelling services 1.2 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.2 1.3 1.2 1.3
Business services etc 144.4 157.4 163.5 157.4 161.8 159.3 160.5 162.7 165.8 164.9
Personal services 193.8 198.0 198.9 198.7 199.1 197.4 196.4 198.9 200.2 199.9
General government 677.9 690.7 703.6 685.3 691.2 697.4 698.4 698.9 706.0 711.1
Central government 152.9 151.4 151.5 149.7 151.1 151.8 152.2 150.3 151.8 151.9
Civilian central government 109.2 108.8 109.1 107.4 108.9 109.3 110.2 107.3 109.3 109.7
Defence 43.7 42.6 42.4 42.3 42.2 42.5 42.0 43.0 42.5 42.2
Local government 525.0 539.3 552.1 535.6 540.1 545.5 546.2 548.6 554.2 559.2
                     
Mainland Norway 2 148.4 2 200.0 2 213.9 2 201.8 2 219.4 2 203.1 2 199.3 2 216.4 2 225.6 2 214.0