Weekly Bulletin is. 22, 1996
Higher share of industrial production exported
Manufacturing and mining concerns exported 38 per cent of their
production of goods in 1994, while 24 per cent was delivered within the home
county and 38 per cent to other parts of the country. The export share was 11
percentage points higher compared to the corresponding figure for 1986, with
Vest-Agder County posting the highest export share.
Among the industrial sectors, the metal-working industry had the highest
export share in 1994, with 85 per cent. It was followed by the chemical raw
materials, transport equipment, fish products, and mining and quarrying
industries, all with export shares over 60 per cent. Publishing and printing
operations and the food, beverage and tobacco industry (with the exception of
fish products) have the strongest local association, with respectively 58 and
42 per cent of deliveries going to the home county.
New statistics
Regional distribution of sales of industrial goods and deliveries of raw
materials, 1994.
Statistics are published in the Weekly Bulletin of
Statistics. More information: Kenneth Årdalen, tel. +47 21 09 44 20, e-mail:
ked@ssb.no or Jan Stensrud, tel. +47 21 09 47 60, e-mail, jas@ssb.no.
Weekly Bulletin is. 22, 1996