Table

Owners of personally owned enterprises by organizational structure, sex, age, national backgroud and level of education
	2012
	Total number of owners		General Partnership		General Partnership with shared liability		Sole Proprietorship
	Numbers of owners	Share	Numbers of owners	Share	Numbers of owners	Share	Numbers of owners	Share
Total	201 593	100.0	11 459	100.0	18 567	100.0	171 567	100.0

Sex
Males	143 481	71.2	8 292	72.4	13 523	72.8	121 666	70.9
Females	58 112	28.8	3 167	27.6	5 044	27.2	49 901	29.1

National background
Norway	172 196	85.4	10 453	91.2	16 570	89.2	145 173	84.6
EU/EEA, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand	13 202	6.5	389	3.4	716	3.9	12 097	7.1
Asia, Africa, Latin-Amerika, Oceania, except Australia and New Zealand and Europa except EU/EEA	12 424	6.2	332	2.9	941	5.1	11 151	6.5
Non-Norwegian citizen, living outside of Norway	3 771	1.9	285	2.5	340	1.8	3 146	1.8

Level of education
Primary and lower secondary education (level 1-2)	32 976	16.4	1 807	15.8	2 607	14.0	28 562	16.6
Upper secondary education (level 3-5)	85 464	42.4	5 302	46.3	7 373	39.7	72 789	42.4
Tertial education, 4 years or less (level 6)	45 113	22.4	2 562	22.4	4 429	23.9	38 122	22.2
Tertial education, more than 4 years (level 7-8)	30 630	15.2	1 480	12.9	3 615	19.5	25 535	14.9
Other	7 410	3.7	308	2.7	543	2.9	6 559	3.8

Age
16-24 years	8 041	4.0	173	1.5	871	4.7	6 997	4.1
25-44 years	87 903	43.6	3 667	32.0	9 285	50.0	74 951	43.7
45-66 years	92 584	45.9	6 340	55.3	7 585	40.9	78 659	45.8
67 years or older	13 060	6.5	1 278	11.2	823	4.4	10 959	6.4
Unknown age	5	0.0	1	0.0	3	0.0	1	0.0