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Accelerated growth in prices for legal activities
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2008-03-12T10:00:00.000Z
Prices and price indices;Establishments, enterprises and accounts
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Legal activities, price index, Q4 2007

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Accelerated growth in prices for legal activities

Prices for legal activities rose by 5 per cent in 2007 while the comparable value in 2006 was 4.3 per cent. The increase was particularly large in the fourth quarter of 2007 when prices were up by 6 per cent compared to the same period the year before.

Legal activities, price index. 2005=100

The total index for legal activities shows a 11.3 per cent price increase for the industry as a whole compared with the average price in 2005. It is the foreign clients who have experienced the strongest price growth in this period and when measured against the fourth quarter of 2006 the increase for this group was 6.6 per cent. For private households and business clients the change was 5.1 and 6.0 per cent respectively.

Legal activities, price index 1st quarter 2005-4th quarter 2007. 2005=100
Period Prices Sub indices
Total index Change from
same quarter in
the previous year,
per cent 		Foreign clients Private clients Business clients
2005          
1. quarter 99.3   99.6 99.5 99.2
2. quarter 99.7   99.6  100.7 99.5
3. quarter  100.2   99.6  100.5  100.4
4. quarter  100.7    101.2 99.3  100.9
           
2006          
1. quarter  102.9 3.6  106.2  100.6  103.0
2. quarter  104.2 4.5  106.1  102.3  104.5
3. quarter  104.8 4.6  105.9  102.4  105.3
4. quarter  105.1 4.3  106.2  103.4  105.5
           
2007          
1. quarter  108.1 5.0  110.6  105.4  108.3
2. quarter  108.8 4.4  110.9  107.0  109.3
3. quarter  109.6 4.6  111.8  108.1  110.0
4. quarter  111.3 6.0  113.2  108.6  111.9

About the industry

The legal activities industry consisted of 2 340 establishments in 2005. These establishments employed 6 956 people and had a turnover of almost NOK 7.8 billion, according to Statistics Norway’s structural statistics.

Data sources

Statistics Norway receives data from about 90 establishments in the industry.

Analysis

The establishments are divided into three size strata. For each establishment we calculate price changes (ratios) from the price reference period to the statistical period. The individual price changes are aggregated and weighed according to the establishment’s size stratum, type of employee, type of client and type of case (civil or criminal law) in that order. All price changes are included in the total index. The weights being used are calculated from turnover in each of the categories mentioned above. Turnover data are collected annually during the Classification of Products by Activity survey.

The price measured

The price measured in this index is average charge-out rates per hour (the respondents are asked to report invoiced rates if available or alternatively to use list prices), excl. VAT.

Time of measurement

The statistics consists of all transactions that have been carried through in the quarter in question.