Annual average		2005				1st quarter 2006 2)
	2004	2005	1st quarter	2nd quarter	3rd quarter	4th quarter	Old	New
TOTAL	2 276	2 289	2 267	2 286	2 304	2 298	2 317	2 326
Østfold	124	125	125	127	125	124	123	124
Akershus	254	255	251	256	254	258	261	261
Oslo	279	283	281	281	284	286	292	293
Hedmark	89	87	86	89	88	86	87	88
Oppland	89	89	89	89	91	88	87	88
Buskerud	121	124	124	124	124	125	125	125
Vestfold	106	106	106	106	107	106	104	105
Telemark	78	79	79	78	80	77	77	78
Aust-Agder	49	49	48	49	49	49	49	49
Vest-Agder	75	79	76	79	81	80	78	79
Rogaland	195	198	195	196	200	198	201	202
Hordaland	225	226	224	225	226	227	231	231
Sogn og Fjordane	53	51	51	52	52	51	51	52
Møre og Romsdal	119	118	118	117	117	119	123	124
Sør-Trøndelag	136	138	136	137	140	140	140	140
Nord-Trøndelag	58	58	56	58	61	58	58	58
Nordland	112	112	112	112	113	113	115	115
Troms	77	76	75	75	77	77	78	78
Finnmark	35	35	35	35	35	35	35	35
MALES	1 201	1 211	1 199	1 212	1 217	1 216	1 226	1 232
Østfold	66	66	65	67	66	67	66	67
Akershus	132	134	131	134	134	137	138	138
Oslo	146	148	148	147	149	149	150	151
Hedmark	47	47	46	48	47	45	45	45
Oppland	46	47	47	47	47	46	47	48
Buskerud	64	64	65	64	63	63	65	65
Vestfold	56	55	55	56	55	54	54	54
Telemark	42	41	42	41	41	40	43	43
Aust-Agder	26	26	25	25	26	26	26	26
Vest-Agder	39	42	41	41	42	42	41	42
Rogaland	105	108	108	107	109	109	109	109
Hordaland	119	120	117	121	120	120	123	123
Sogn og Fjordane	29	27	26	26	28	27	26	27
Møre og Romsdal	63	63	62	63	62	66	68	68
Sør-Trøndelag	73	73	73	72	74	73	74	74
Nord-Trøndelag	32	32	31	32	33	32	32	31
Nordland	59	60	60	61	60	61	61	61
Troms	41	40	40	40	41	41	40	41
Finnmark	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18
FEMALES	1 074	1 078	1 069	1 074	1 087	1 082	1 091	1 094
Østfold	58	59	59	60	60	57	58	58
Akershus	122	121	120	122	119	122	123	123
Oslo	133	135	133	134	135	138	142	142
Hedmark	42	41	40	41	41	40	42	43
Oppland	43	43	42	43	44	42	40	40
Buskerud	57	60	59	59	61	62	59	59
Vestfold	50	51	51	51	51	52	50	51
Telemark	37	38	37	37	39	37	35	35
Aust-Agder	24	23	24	23	23	23	23	23
Vest-Agder	36	38	36	38	39	38	37	37
Rogaland	89	89	88	89	91	90	92	93
Hordaland	106	106	107	104	106	107	108	108
Sogn og Fjordane	24	24	25	25	24	24	25	25
Møre og Romsdal	56	55	56	54	55	53	55	56
Sør-Trøndelag	64	65	63	65	66	66	66	67
Nord-Trøndelag	27	27	26	27	27	26	27	27
Nordland	53	52	51	51	53	52	54	54
Troms	36	36	35	35	37	36	37	37
Finnmark	17	17	16	17	17	17	16	17

1 As from 2006 the age limit to participate in the LFS was lowered from 16 to 15 years. At the same time the definition of age was changed from completed years at the end of the year to completed years at the time of the reference week.

2 As from January 2006 the LFS was revised. To improve the comparability for the figures between 1st quarter 2006 and 1st quarter 2005, figures for 1st quarter 2006 are published according to both the revised and the unrevised LFS regarding to the main changes, i.e. the changes concerning age limit, the definition of age and the classification of persons on lay-off.