Structural business statistics for manufacturing, mining and quarrying, 2004, final figures

In 2004 the gross value of production in manufacturing and mining and quarrying totaled NOK 547 billion. This is an increase of 9.1 per cent, or NOK 45.8 billion, measured in current prices. Value added in manufacturing increased by NOK 12.4 billion or 7.7 per cent in 2004.

The increase came especially in oil refining and production of chemicals and production of basic metals. Oil refining and production of chemicals had an increase of NOK 12.5 billion in production value and NOK 4 billion in value added, while the increase for basic metals was almost NOK 11 billion in production value and NOK 3 billion in value added. Most of the other industries experienced an increase of production value and value added in 2004.

Investments up

Gross investment in manufacturing, mining and quarrying rose by 9.5 per cent in 2004.

The largest increases are found in oil refining and chemicals with NOK 989 million, and production of paper with NOK 784 million. The investments were however very low within production of paper in 2003.

Lowest level of employment since 1950

Manufacturing, mining and quarrying employed 264 000 in 2004. This is the lowest employment since 1950. From 2003 employment went down by 9 000, or 3.3 per cent.

Most industries experienced reduced employment. Building of transport equipment experienced the largest reduction. This industry decreased by 10 per cent, or more than 1 800 persons employed. It was mainly caused by a reduction in the building of new ships.

The drop in employment came particularly among the largest companies, this was also the case in 2003.

New population

In the 2004 statistics the population has been changed to make the Manufacturing statistics more comparable with other statistics. Enterprises with individual proprietorship, where the owner were working alone (one-man-enterprises) and local kind-of-activity-units with employment less than half a man-year worked were earlier not included in the statistics. In 2004 these additional 11 164 local kind-of-activity-units, with 10 483 person employed, were included. They had a gross value of production of NOK 6 598 billion (1.2 per cent of total production value) and a value added of 2 653 billion (1.5 per cent of total value added) in 2004.

Tables:

• Table 1 Mining, quarrying and manufacturing. Principal figures for local kind of activity units 1972-2004
• Table 2 Mining, quarrying and manufacturing. Principal figures for local kind of activity units, by industry division. 1999-2004
• Table 3 Mining, quarrying and manufacturing. Principal figures for local kind of activity units, by county. 2003-2004