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About the statistics
Definitions
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Name and topic
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Name: Waste from service industries
Topic: Nature and the environment
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Responsible division
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Division for Energy, Environmental and Transport Statistics
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Definitions of the main concepts and variables
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EE waste is all discarded electrical and electronic devices and components. They use electricity or run on batteries and are controlled by electronic signals.
Employees are the total amount of staff and owners.
Establishment is according to the Central Register of Establishments and Enterprises of Norway a local kind of activity unit, which mainly is conducting activities within a special industry group.
Hazardous waste requires special treatment according to the Waste regulation, and is defined in the EU List of Waste (LoW) and Norwegian legislation defining limits for hazardous properties. Hazardous waste contains a large number of different materials and products, but constitutes one material category in the statistics.
Industry waste is waste which is not household waste.
Material denotes substances that largely share the same chemical and physical characteristics. The material classification are based upon Classification of waste (NS 9431) ;
Mixed Waste is waste that can not be assigned to a pure waste fraction.
Ordinary waste is waste not defined as hazardous waste.
Pure waste fraction is waste that can be classified to certain materials.
Section denotes an aggregated level in the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC2002) , marked with the letters A-Q.
Service Industries include section G-Q in the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC2002) .
Stratification is the process of grouping members of the population into subgroups (strata), for example by industry and size.
Waste is defined by the Pollution Control Act §27 as: "Discarded objects or substances. Waste also includes superfluous objects from service activities, production and treatment plants etc. Waste water and exhaust gases are not regarded as waste".
Waste collector is an enterprise that collects waste. In this statistics these enterprises constitutes the respondent sample.
Wrecked vehicles is discarded vehicles.
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Standard classifications
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The statistics for 2006 are compiled according to the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC2002) . The 2008 statistics are compiled according to Standard Industrial Classification (SIC2007) .
The 2008 statistics are compiled both by SIC2002 and SIC2007.
The material classification is based upon Classification of waste (NS 9431) .