Structural business statistics for manufacturing, mining and quarrying, 2008, final figures

Preliminary figures are published on national level.

Final figures are published both on a national level and on county level. Figures on municipality level can be found in StatBank.

Annually.

Preliminary figures are published 10 months after the end of the reference year. Only enterprise figures.
Final figures are published within 18 months after the end of the reference year. Both enterprise and Local KAU figures.

Annual reports to EUROSTAT.

 Micro data is stored short-term in SAS program and long-term in txt format.

The manufacturing statistics offer a detailed overview on activity in the sector, based on accounting figures.

It was published for the first time in 1876, and has been published in its current form since 1997.

The first reference year with published preliminary figures, is 2007.

Manufacturing statistics are produced with background in the need for data for the annual national accounts, and in accordance to EU regulations for structural statistics.

Public authorities, professional and industrial organisations, researchers and research institutions and private users are some of the most important users of the manufacturing statistics.

No external users have access to the statistics and analyses before they are published and accessible simultaneously for all users on ssb.no at 08 am. Prior to this, a minimum of three months' advance notice is given inthe Statistics Release Calendar. This is one of Statistics Norway’s key principles for ensuring that all users are treated equally.

As not all local KAUs within manufacturing are included in the survey population, there will be some differences towards other surveys which include employment figures. Files including all active local KAUs exist back to the reference year 1998.

Statistical Act §§2-2, 2-3 and 3-2.

Regulation (EC) no. 295/2008 of 11 March 2008 concerning structural business statistics (recast). In addition, Norway undertakes, through the EEA agreement, to adhere to EU Council regulation (EF) no. 1893/2006 of 20 December 2006 on NACE Rev. 2.

The annual manufacturing statistics cover Local KAUs (kind-of-activity units) in manufacturing, mining and quarrying, as defined by the Norwegian Standard Industrial Classification (SIC). Information on oil and gas extraction is not included.

The manufacturing statistics are prepared based on information from questionnaires and data from administrative registers. A form and a copy of the standard financial report that the tax authorities collect from the enterprises (the Standard Industry Form) are therefore collected from all enterprises with manufacturing activity with at least ten employees. The Standard Industry Form covers income statement and balance sheet which enterprises are required to report to the tax authorities.

For the remaining local KAUs total figures are estimated based on annual accounts, employment and sales. All joint-stock companies are required to send their annual accounts to the Norwegian Register of Company Accounts in Brønnøysund. The annual accounts include the income statement as well as the balance sheet, but the specifications vary and are not as detailed as the Standard Industry Form.

The majority of entries to the Central Register of Establishments and Enterprises of Statistics Norway have been taken from the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities in Brønnøysund. The Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities contains all enterprises in the Value Added Tax Register of the Directorate of Taxes and in the Register of Employers of the National Insurance Administration.

The statistical population consists of all active enterprises in the reference year. Enterprises without local KAU's are excluded from final figures, but may sometimes be included in the preliminary figures. The population is divided into strata (nonoverlapping, exhaustive groups) by industry divisions and employment. Some groups are sampled more frequently, some less.

Detailed accounting data from the sample and administrative data form the basis for calculating the economic structures in the industry.

The questionnaires are sent out in May, at a time where most of the enterprises have finished their Standard Industry Form, to the sample. Those who do not respond within 6 months receive a compulsory fine.

For other enterprises, administrative data is used.

The data collected are sent through a thorough revision on micro level. Consistency controls are conducted between items on the form, against the previous year, against production statistics, against the Central Register of Establishments and Enterprises, against the Standard Industry Form and against the annual reports.

For preliminary figures particularly critical controls are industry division, employment and sales. The figures will not be revised as thoroughly as final figures.

For final figures particularly critical controls include, amongst others, industry division, employment, sales, compensation of employees and investments.

For enterprises in the sample, where we have a complete Standard Industry form and questionnaire, no variables are estimated. For enterprises where we only have a Standard Industry form the questionnaire variables are estimated. For other enterprises all variables, except turnover and employment, are estimated on the basis of sample figures.

Turnover and employment are considered as known variables for all enterprises and are therefore used as a basis for computing missing variables. Previously an industry mean based on sample units was used to estimate missing data for non-sample units (ratio estimates). As of the statistical year 2011 the method is based on finding a sample unit similar to the non-sample unit to be estimated, based on a set of criteria, and using the sample-unit to estimate the missing values (nearest neighbour estimation). The nearest neighbour criterion is industry combined with the turnover/employment ratio, in that order.

For preliminary figures, the production value will be estimated with background in the relationship between production value and sales in the industry division from last reference year. Total purchase of goods and services, compensation for employees and gross investments are collected from administrativ data sources when available. When not, total purchase of goods and services and compensation for employees will be estimated with the same method used for the production value. Gross investments are not estimated.

Not relevant

If less than three units are represented in the content in a table cell, the figures are not published. The reason is the risk that the units can be identified. This is especially critical when publishing figures at a low geographic level. This is resolved by suppressing these figures in the table.

Preliminary figures are published before the end of revision and may therefore deviate some from the final figures, which are published within 18 months of the end of the reference year.

For the final figures , data files exist electronically back to the reference year 1966.

Mainly, the data are comparable when it concerns coverage and variables, but there have been changes in the Standard Industrial Classification, sample size and minor adjustments in a few definitions.

A new version of Norwegian industry classification (SIC2007) was implemented in January 2009. Structural data for manufacturing, mining and quarrying will be affected as from the publishing of preliminary figures for 2008. This will affect the comparability with previous years.

Due to a reclassification of enterprises from industry to service activities the 2008-figures have been recalculated without these enterprises, so that 2008 and 2009 are comparable. The tables below show the change in per cent (2008-2009) when the enterprises are excluded and included.

While working with 2010-figures we have corrected and updated 2009-figures.