Statistics Norway
43 Employed persons by industry. Employees and self-employed. Percentage change from the same period in the previous year
  1997 1998 1999 99:1 99:2 99:3 99:4 00:1 00:2
Total 2.9 2.4 0.7 1.2 0.7 0.3 0.5 0.3 0.8
                   
Agriculture and hunting -2.0 -2.0 -2.2 -2.5 -2.7 -2.7 -0.9 -2.5 -3.4
Forestry and logging -0.5 -1.3 -5.3 -11.0 -4.0 -8.5 2.3 0.8 -0.7
Fishing and fish farming -1.5 -1.7 -3.7 -9.3 -6.6 -1.5 2.4 5.1 4.7
Oil and gas extraction incl. services 4.0 -0.2 -2.6 4.0 -2.5 -5.2 -6.3 -5.1 -1.2
Oil and gas extraction -2.1 -4.6 -4.3 3.9 -4.5 -7.7 -8.4 -7.8 -6.1
Service activities incidental to oil and gas ext 23.7 10.9 1.2 4.4 2.3 0.5 -1.9 0.9 9.3
Mining and quarrying -2.3 -1.4 -3.5 -1.3 -1.8 -5.0 -5.9 -2.3 -1.8
Manufacturing 4.3 0.7 -2.7 -1.2 -2.1 -3.0 -4.3 -4.4 -3.0
Food products, beverages and tobacco 1.5 -1.4 -3.3 -3.0 -3.4 -3.5 -3.5 -0.8 -0.9
Textiles,wearing apparel, leather 2.8 -2.1 -10.7 -6.6 -4.1 -13.8 -17.8 -7.8 -3.8
Wood and wood products 5.1 -1.2 -3.5 -5.9 -3.4 -2.3 -2.3 -1.6 -4.6
Pulp, paper and paper products -2.4 0.9 -5.5 -7.0 -3.5 -6.0 -5.7 0.4 1.3
Publishing, printing, reproduction 3.3 0.3 -0.9 1.0 -2.8 0.5 -2.3 -2.3 -1.0
Refined petroleum products -1.4 -5.6 -8.0 -3.8 -8.4 -9.3 -9.9 -7.5 2.8
Basic chemicals -5.3 1.6 -1.6 -0.9 -1.9 -3.0 -0.5 0.5 1.5
Chemical and mineral products 4.1 0.4 -0.5 -2.8 1.1 0.6 -0.9 -2.8 -2.8
Basic metals -0.8 1.5 -1.9 -2.5 -0.3 -0.0 -4.7 1.7 -3.5
Machinery and other equipment n.e.c 5.7 0.9 -2.4 1.0 -1.7 -4.4 -4.5 -8.8 -2.2
Building of ships, oil platforms and moduls 10.5 4.0 -2.1 2.3 -1.2 -2.2 -6.9 -8.2 -11.4
Furniture and other manufacturing n.e.c 12.9 3.5 -3.9 -4.0 -3.0 -5.1 -3.4 -4.7 -1.7
Electricity and gas supply -3.4 -4.0 -3.4 -4.5 -1.5 -3.8 -3.9 -2.7 -1.6
Construction 8.4 7.2 -0.1 1.6 0.4 -0.7 -1.8 -1.2 0.1
Service industries excl. general government 3.4 3.4 1.5 2.3 1.3 0.7 1.6 1.2 1.6
Wholesale and retail trade 2.7 2.7 1.3 2.6 0.2 0.6 1.9 0.0 0.4
Hotels and restaurants 3.7 3.2 1.4 3.4 3.1 -0.5 -0.1 1.0 2.0
Transport via pipelines 25.2 -3.3 -6.9 -6.9 -6.9 -6.9 -6.9 -7.5 -7.5
Water transport 1.0 3.9 3.2 2.4 3.2 3.3 3.7 -0.1 -0.5
Ocean transport 1.2 4.3 3.5 2.7 3.5 3.4 4.3 -0.6 -0.5
Inland water and costal transport 0.1 2.0 1.7 1.3 1.8 2.7 0.8 2.3 -0.8
Other transport activities 2.3 4.2 1.2 3.9 3.1 -0.6 -1.4 0.5 -0.0
Post and telecommunications 0.5 2.2 -0.2 -0.2 0.7 -1.2 0.1 1.6 1.9
Financial intermediation -0.9 -3.1 -0.2 -2.8 -0.7 0.0 2.6 1.7 0.7
Dwelling services 3.3 2.5 -1.5 -3.0 -1.3 -1.4 -0.5 -4.3 2.2
Business services etc 10.7 9.0 3.8 6.2 3.4 2.5 3.5 2.6 5.4
Personal services 2.2 2.2 0.4 -0.2 0.1 0.5 1.3 2.4 1.9
General government 1.7 1.9 1.9 1.4 2.0 2.1 2.0 2.0 1.8
Central government 0.4 -1.0 0.1 -0.5 0.4 0.4 0.1 -0.1 0.7
Civilian central government 2.2 -0.3 0.3 0.4 -0.1 0.4 0.3 -0.1 1.2
Defence -3.7 -2.6 -0.4 -2.9 1.5 0.6 -0.7 -0.0 -0.5
Local government 2.1 2.7 2.4 1.9 2.4 2.6 2.5 2.6 2.2
                   
Mainland Norway 2.9 2.4 0.6 1.1 0.7 0.3 0.5 0.4 0.8