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About the statistics
Definitions
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Name and topic
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Name: Property management, local government
Topic: Public sector
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Responsible division
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Division for Housing, Property, Spatial and Agricultural Statistics
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Definitions of the main concepts and variables
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Definition of gross area:
The total floor space of a building, including unusable space, measured from the outside walls.The operating account includes revenues and expenditures, and also includes repayment etc. Operational accounts are specified according to account category, function and type.
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Standard classifications
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Statistics Norway has classified all the 428 municipalities into 16 categories (in 2013), by number of inhabitants and economic external conditions. The classification of municipalities is described by Langørgen, Løkken and Aaberge (2015) (only in Norwegian). In calculating the average for county municipalities, the municipalities are divided into 19 county municipalities in accordance with the standard for municipality classification.