External trade in ICT goods (discontinued), 1999

The national level and by customs district

Annual, within 9 months after the reference year.

Not relevant

Storage of data: See "About the statistics" under the External trade in commodities .

The purpose of the external trade statistics with ICT goods is to give information about the flow of commodity between Norway and other countries. The statistics was initialized in 1999 based on a nordic delimitation of ICT goods. In 2005 a classification figured out by OECD was selected as basis for the statistics.

The Ministry of Trade and Industry, business organisations, research institutes and the media use the statistics.

The statistics are comparable with countries that use the OECD classification of ICT goods.

The Statistics Act, §§ 2-1, 2-3 and 3-2

Not relevant

The statistics cover customs declared shipments of ICT goods. The classification of ICT goods used in this statistics are figured out by OECD and follow international nomenclature, the Harmonised Systems (HS).

The statistics are based on figures from the External trade in commodities . Documentation of the basis of data can be found under "About the statistics".

Total counting. Customs' cleared consignments with a value of less than NOK 1000 are excluded from the statistics. Certain kinds of commodity flows are also excluded, for example goods for repair.

Administrative data from customs declarations are collected by the customs authority under the Customs Act.

See "About the statistics" under the External trade in commodities .

See "About the statistics" under the External trade in commodities .

Some figures on product groups from some parts of the country might be confidential, either because there are less than three respondents, one of the respondents stands for more than 90 per cent of the value or two of the respondents stands for more than 95 per cent of the value.

The statistics on foreign trade with ICT goods was first published in 1999 with data back to 1995. The statistics was based on a delimitation of ICT goods developed by the national statistical offices in the Nordic countries. In 2003 OECD published a paper with a proposed classification of ICT goods. In conformity with other statistical offices, Statistics Norway is now using this classification. The classification differs somewhat from the classification used earlier years, and the figures for 2000-2004 which are published by both classifications are not directly comparable.