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Quarterly national accounts, 4. quarter 2008
47 Employed persons by industry. Employees and self-employed. Percentage change from the same period in the previous year
  2007 2008 07:1 07:2 07:3 07:4 08:1 08:2 08:3 08:4
                     
Total 4.1 3.2 3.7 4.1 4.1 4.6 4.1 3.5 3.2 1.9
                     
Agriculture, hunting and forestry -2.5 -1.7 -3.7 -3.2 -1.9 -1.2 -1.3 -2.0 -1.4 -2.2
Fishing and fish farming -0.8 2.0 -0.8 -4.0 -0.5 2.1 2.6 2.9 3.9 -0.9
                     
Oil and gas extraction including services 7.8 6.7 7.5 7.2 8.4 8.0 6.9 6.2 4.4 9.3
Oil and gas extraction 4.5 6.9 7.3 4.8 2.9 3.3 6.9 6.2 7.5 7.1
Service activities incidental to oil and gas 12.4 6.3 7.7 10.6 15.5 15.2 6.9 6.1 0.8 12.4
Mining and quarrying 2.9 3.9 4.0 1.0 4.7 1.9 3.6 9.8 2.6 0.0
                     
Manufacturing 4.9 2.5 4.5 4.9 4.6 5.8 3.4 3.5 3.1 0.1
Food products, beverages and tobacco 4.9 1.1 3.8 3.8 5.4 6.4 1.6 2.1 1.0 -0.0
Textiles,wearing apparel, leather 0.7 -6.5 5.5 2.5 -3.4 -1.4 -5.7 -8.6 -4.2 -7.7
Wood and wood products 3.1 -1.0 4.7 3.2 1.7 3.1 0.9 -1.5 -0.2 -3.0
Pulp, paper and paper products -6.5 -8.1 -11.7 -4.3 -6.9 -2.8 -5.8 -7.2 -9.2 -10.3
Publishing, printing, reproduction 3.1 -2.3 3.9 3.0 1.6 3.9 -1.8 -2.3 -1.4 -3.8
Refined petroleum, chemical and mineral products 5.8 3.5 4.1 5.1 5.6 8.5 4.6 5.2 5.4 -0.9
Basic chemicals 10.1 -0.8 7.4 11.6 10.9 10.4 -3.6 1.8 -5.1 3.8
Basic metals 2.1 1.2 -0.9 2.0 3.8 3.7 -1.1 4.5 2.4 -1.1
Machinery and other equipment n.e.c 7.9 6.3 6.9 8.1 8.2 8.3 7.8 7.4 7.0 3.3
Building of ships, oil platforms and moduls 3.7 5.8 5.6 4.4 1.2 3.8 7.5 7.0 7.1 1.8
Furniture and other manufacturing n.e.c 2.8 0.1 4.8 2.0 3.0 1.5 1.9 1.8 0.1 -3.3
                     
Electricity and gas supply -0.7 -0.9 0.4 -0.2 -1.4 -1.5 -2.3 -1.9 -0.5 1.0
Water supply -0.1 1.4 -3.8 -3.0 -0.2 7.2 5.4 7.0 3.8 -10.4
Construction 9.9 3.7 9.3 9.9 10.2 10.3 5.7 4.2 3.3 1.6
Wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor vehicl 3.6 3.1 2.5 3.5 3.5 4.9 4.5 3.8 3.1 0.9
Hotels and restaurants 2.9 2.5 2.1 2.2 2.9 4.6 4.4 3.0 1.8 0.7
Transport via pipelines 4.8 5.2 5.0 0.6 -1.1 14.9 9.6 5.4 -1.9 7.8
Ocean transport 7.3 5.0 7.3 7.4 7.3 7.2 5.2 5.3 4.6 4.7
Other transport industries 1.9 2.6 0.8 1.6 1.5 3.6 4.3 2.6 3.8 -0.2
Post and telecommunications 4.2 2.5 0.5 1.1 4.5 10.6 6.3 3.6 1.2 -0.6
Financial intermediation 2.3 2.5 1.7 2.6 2.7 2.1 2.4 2.9 2.7 1.8
Dwellings (households) 1.1 0.3 0.3 0.8 2.3 0.9 -3.6 -0.4 2.8 2.4
Business services 8.3 6.9 8.3 9.0 8.4 7.4 7.8 7.7 7.4 5.0
Public administration and defence 3.6 1.8 4.9 4.0 2.7 3.0 2.7 1.6 1.4 1.6
Education 1.5 1.8 1.5 0.9 1.9 1.7 1.4 2.0 2.0 1.6
Health and social work 2.5 2.9 2.3 2.8 2.5 2.3 3.3 2.9 2.7 2.7
Other social and personal services 2.8 2.0 2.6 3.4 2.0 3.3 3.3 0.7 2.4 1.7
                     
Mainland Norway 4.0 3.1 3.6 4.0 3.9 4.5 4.0 3.4 3.2 1.7
                     
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General government 2.3 2.4 2.0 2.1 2.5 2.6 2.6 2.3 2.3 2.3
Central government 1.3 0.5 0.9 0.9 1.7 1.8 1.3 0.6 0.2 0.1
Civilian central government 1.3 0.6 0.8 0.8 1.6 1.9 1.4 0.9 0.3 0.0
Defence 1.7 -0.4 1.2 1.3 2.6 1.7 0.4 -1.7 -0.9 0.5
Local government 2.9 3.4 2.7 2.7 3.0 3.1 3.3 3.3 3.5 3.6