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39.6 %
increased turnover in E-commerce from the 4th period of 2019 to the 4th period of 2020
Turnover | Change in per cent | |||
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4th period 2019 | 4th period 2020 | 4th period 2019 - 4th period 2020 | 2018 - 2019 | |
1The figures do not include value added tax. | ||||
Sale and repair of motor vehicles | 43 149 | 47 068 | 9.1 | 2.4 |
Wholesale trade | 162 996 | 165 062 | 1.3 | 2.8 |
Retail trade | 89 176 | 100 984 | 13.2 | 1.9 |
Grocery trade | 31 942 | 38 084 | 19.2 | 2.0 |
E-commerce | 4 091 | 5 711 | 39.6 | 9.4 |
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Table 1
Sales statistics of retail sales excluding sales of motorized vehicles. Sales exclude VAT, by county.
NOK million | Change in per cent | ||
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4th period 2019 | 4th period 2020 | 4th period 2019 - 4th period 2020 | |
The whole country | 89 176 | 100 984 | 13.2 |
Viken | 19 708 | 22 362 | 13.5 |
Oslo | 11 293 | 12 748 | 12.9 |
Innlandet | 6 512 | 7 417 | 13.9 |
Vestfold og Telemark | 7 974 | 9 358 | 17.4 |
Agder | 5 786 | 6 743 | 16.5 |
Rogaland | 6 994 | 7 792 | 11.4 |
Vestland | 10 192 | 11 177 | 9.7 |
Møre og Romsdal | 4 274 | 4 773 | 11.7 |
Trøndelag - Trööndelage | 7 775 | 8 812 | 13.3 |
Nordland | 4 455 | 5 139 | 15.4 |
Troms og Finnmark - Romsa ja Finnmárku | 4 213 | 4 663 | 10.7 |
Table 2
Sales, maintenance and repair of motor vehicles, motorcycles.. Sales exclude VAT, by county
NOK million | Change in per cent | ||
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4th period 2019 | 4th period 2020 | 4th period 2019 - 4th period 2020 | |
The whole country | 43 149 | 47 068 | 9.1 |
Viken | 15 102 | 16 751 | 10.9 |
Oslo | 7 309 | 7 490 | 2.5 |
Innlandet | 2 383 | 2 517 | 5.6 |
Vestfold og Telemark | 2 993 | 3 253 | 8.7 |
Agder | 1 971 | 2 191 | 11.2 |
Rogaland | 2 733 | 2 941 | 7.6 |
Vestland | 3 101 | 3 450 | 11.3 |
Møre og Romsdal | 1 545 | 1 833 | 18.6 |
Trøndelag - Trööndelage | 3 274 | 3 726 | 13.8 |
Nordland | 1 284 | 1 368 | 6.5 |
Troms og Finnmark - Romsa ja Finnmárku | 1 455 | 1 547 | 6.3 |
Table 3
Wholesale trade and commision trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles. Sales exclude VAT, by county.
NOK million | Change in per cent | ||
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4th period 2019 | 4th period 2020 | 4th period 2019 - 4th period 2020 | |
The whole country | 162 996 | 165 062 | 1.3 |
Viken | 50 942 | 54 572 | 7.1 |
Oslo | 44 480 | 43 161 | -3.0 |
Innlandet | 5 767 | 6 227 | 8.0 |
Vestfold og Telemark | 7 606 | 8 098 | 6.5 |
Agder | 4 614 | 4 849 | 5.1 |
Rogaland | 9 600 | 9 677 | 0.8 |
Vestland | 16 935 | 15 537 | -8.3 |
Møre og Romsdal | 7 015 | 6 768 | -3.5 |
Trøndelag - Trööndelage | 7 990 | 8 484 | 6.2 |
Nordland | 3 637 | 3 653 | 0.4 |
Troms og Finnmark - Romsa ja Finnmárku | 4 409 | 4 036 | -8.5 |
Table 4
Turnover statistics except wholesale on a fee or contract basis. Turnover excluding VAT. NOK million
4th period 2019 | 5th period 2019 | 6th period 2019 | 1st period 2020 | 2nd period 2020 | 3rd period 2020 | 4th period 2020 | |
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Wholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles | 43 149 | 47 005 | 40 913 | 41 561 | 40 159 | 48 421 | 47 068 |
Sale of motor vehicles | 31 429 | 32 533 | 29 220 | 29 920 | 27 766 | 33 980 | 34 553 |
Maintenance and repair of motor vehicles | 7 373 | 8 473 | 7 617 | 7 688 | 7 518 | 8 807 | 7 711 |
Sale of motor vehicle parts and accessories | 3 796 | 5 616 | 3 794 | 3 608 | 4 272 | 4 793 | 4 178 |
Sale, maintenance and repair of motorcycles and related parts and accessories | 552 | 384 | 282 | 345 | 603 | 841 | 626 |
Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles | 162 996 | 181 059 | 177 693 | 158 572 | 171 428 | 177 641 | 165 062 |
Wholesale of agricultural raw materials and live animals | 2 435 | 2 662 | 2 348 | 1 944 | 2 634 | 2 510 | 1 684 |
Wholesale of food, beverages and tobacco | 60 023 | 2 662 | 65 354 | 61 208 | 69 506 | 70 992 | 68 903 |
Wholesale of household goods | 23 275 | 64 676 | 25 631 | 22 955 | 23 824 | 24 769 | 24 363 |
Wholesale of information and communication equipment | 7 946 | 8 652 | 11 480 | 8 226 | 9 138 | 8 789 | 7 627 |
Wholesale of machinery, equipment and supplies | 20 351 | 24 914 | 24 311 | 19 890 | 22 782 | 23 607 | 19 786 |
Other specialised wholesale | 46 728 | 50 989 | 45 873 | 42 143 | 41 042 | 44 241 | 40 307 |
Non-specialised wholesale trade | 2 238 | 2 778 | 2 695 | 2 205 | 2 501 | 2 733 | 2 393 |
Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles | 89 176 | 83 351 | 97 402 | 75 652 | 83 522 | 100 671 | 100 984 |
Retail sale in non-specialised stores | 35 126 | 32 227 | 37 052 | 31 725 | 38 265 | 41 162 | 41 644 |
Retail sale of food, beverages and tobacco in specialised stores | 4 277 | 3 846 | 5 163 | 3 416 | 3 993 | 4 653 | 4 909 |
Retail sale of automotive fuel in specialised stores | 9 127 | 8 454 | 7 996 | 7 545 | 6 240 | 7 506 | 8 537 |
Retail sale of information and communication equipment in specialised stores | 802 | 776 | 1 126 | 713 | 629 | 772 | 817 |
Retail sale of other household equipment in specialised stores | 15 908 | 15 373 | 16 670 | 12 636 | 14 259 | 18 518 | 18 167 |
Retail sale of cultural and recreation goods in specialised stores | 4 611 | 3 726 | 5 318 | 3 075 | 3 626 | 5 512 | 5 442 |
Retail sale of other goods in specialised stores | 14 817 | 14 147 | 17 747 | 12 303 | 10 624 | 16 206 | 15 288 |
Retail sale via stalls and markets | 83 | 35 | 73 | 21 | 24 | 41 | 48 |
Retail trade not in stores, stalls and markets | 4 427 | 4 765 | 6 258 | 4 219 | 5 860 | 6 300 | 6 131 |
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About the statistics
The purpose of the statistics is to identify the level and development of wholesale and retail trade.The turnover for a given year is only final when the last period in the following year is published. Both quarterly figures and figures for every second month are available in StatBank.
Definitions
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Turnover: Includes dutiable and duty-free sales income from goods and services. Financial revenues, public subsidies or value added tax are not included.
Administrative information
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Name: Wholesale and retail trade sales statistics
Topic: Wholesale and retail trade and service activities
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Division for Structural Business Statistics
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Concerns bimonthly data only: Regular publication of data divided by counties in addition to the data published at national level. Other geographical breakdown can be commissioned.
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Bimonthly level-numbers and quarterly indices.
The bimonthly turnover statistics is initially published about seventeen weeks after the expiration of the statistical period. Revised data are then published respectively two and four months after the initial publication.
The quarterly indices are initially published about sixty days after the expiration of the quarter. They are published at the NACE two-digit sector level only (NACE 45 and 46). Revised data are published in connection with the next time publication, i.e. three months after the initial publication.
The published data are being revised up to two calendar years back in time. This is explained in the table beneath, with the quarterly indices as an example. Superscript T refers to the current year, while subscript 1-4 refers to the relevant quarter.
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The quarterly indices are reported to Eurostat, both gross data and data adjusted by working days, sixty days after the expiration of the quarter.
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Primary data and the compiled statistics are stored electronically in files of the in the programming language SAS.
Background
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The purpose of the statistics is to identify the level of and the development of wholesale and retail trade. The statistics has been produced since 1995.
From 1995 to 2006, only the bimonthly data where published nationally. The quarterly indices where published by Eurostat only. As from the first quarter of 2007, the quarterly indices are also published nationally.
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Users include public and private sector agencies and organisations. The National Accounts statistics of Statistics Norway rely on the timely production of the Wholesale and Retail Statistics. Other users include the Research department of Statistics Norway.
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No external users have access to the statistics and analyses before they are published and accessible simultaneously for all users on ssb.no at 8 am. Prior to this, a minimum of three months' advance notice is given in the Statistics Release Calendar. Principles of communication and dissemination
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Similar statistics is being prepared for all dutiable industries. Change in the progress of turnover is compared with the monthly Index of Retail Trade. Both change in progress and level numbers are compared with the annual Structural statistics for Wholesale and Retail Trade.
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The Statistics Act, paragraphs 3-2.
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EU Council Regulation No 1165/98, May 19, 1998 regarding short-term statistics.
Production
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The population is all VAT-registered units within the industries of wholesale and retail trade, repair of vehicles and household goods and personal goods included. Agency business is not part of the population. This means NACE 45, 46 (except 46.1) and NACE 47, according to the Standard of Industrial Classification (SIC2007). State owned units and units owned by the social security administration or local or regional governments are not part of the population. The observed unit is mainly identical to the obliged VAT-registered unit, i.e. enterprises with an annual turnover that exceeds NOK 50 000.
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The VAT-register
The Wholesale and Retail Trade Statistics represent full-census survey data for the entire population.
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Data are collected from the VAT-register.
Turnover is controlled against earlier received data. If the divergence is considerable, the individual VAT-unit is contacted. Information from the VAT-register is controlled against the Central register of Establishments and Enterprises and the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities.
For the bimonthly statistics the data are summed up. When a VAT-unit consists of more than one active firm, the data is being divided according to registered turnover in the last annual data file from the Central register of Establishments and Enterprises.
The quarterly indices are computed from the bimonthly statistics. Therefore it is needed to divide some of the bimonthly data in two. For the division, the number of workdays within a month is used. The model for calculation of quarterly data is described below:
The variable Q refers to quarterly numbers, B is bimonthly numbers and wd is the number of workdays in March, April, September or October. Superscript T refers to the actual quarter, while subscript T refers to the current year. Subscript j shows that the data is divided into the most detailed NACE level as possible, i.e. three-, four- or five-digit sector level. Subscript h refers to two-digit sector level.
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Not relevant
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If a table cell consists of less than three observations, the data for the actual table cell are not being published. This is necessary because it would be possible to identify the individual data from the actual enterprises. This is particularly important for regional data.
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In the period 1995 to 2002 the statistics was published according to the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC1994). From 2002 is has been published according to the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC2002), and from 2009 is has been published according to the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC2007)
Changes in the statistics: Before the first bimonthly term of 2001, the statistics only included dutiable sales. From the first term of 2001, the statistics includes both dutiable and duty-fee sales.
Accuracy and reliability
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Measurement errors (the respondent gives erroneous data) and processing errors (wrong interpretation of digits and letters written on paper forms during optical scanning) may occur. These types of errors are tried to avoid through control routines, as explained in chapter 3.5. Another possible error may occur, if there are used out of date distribution formulas to divide turnover in cases where a VAT-unit consists of more than one firms.
Errors in the estimation of quarterly indices may occur if the development between first and second term, or fourth and fifth term, in the bimonthly statistics is substantially different last year and this year.
The County Revenue Office is contacted in cases where big enterprises have failed to respond. For the first and second time publication, unit non-response is imputated. By the third and last publication, the turnover for unit non-response is set to cero.
Not relevant
Other errors in the VAT-register, under reporting included. This is difficult to value, but it is assumed not to represent a substantial source of errors.
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Not relevant
Contact
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Bestilling av oppdrag
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Stian Elisenberg
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Madli Irene Judin