Statistics Norway

Norwegian business enterprise sector, ownership and roles

13 Newly established personal owned enterprises1, 2 in 2002, by survival in 2005, and the owners gender, age, national background and level of education
  Number of enterprises Number of surviving enterprises of newly established personal owned enterprises in 2003 Share of surviving enterprises of newly established personal owned enterprises in 2003
  2005 2005
  Survived Not survived Survived Ikke survived
Gender          
Women 10 121 4 255 5 866 42.0 58.0
Men 20 567 9 975 10 592 48.5 51.5
           
Age groups          
16-24 years 3 683 1 424 2 259 61.3 38.7
25-34 years 11 533 5 194 6 339 55.0 45.0
35-44 years 8 610 4 246 4 364 50.7 49.3
45-54 years 4 938 2 471 2 467 50.0 50.0
55-66 years 2 400 1 215 1 185 49.4 50.6
67 years and older  385  203  182 47.3 52.7
           
National background          
Norwegian national background 26 200 12 158 14 042 46.4 53.6
Western countries outside Norway 1 340  585  755 43.7 56.3
Non-western countries 2 297 1 064 1 233 46.3 53.7
Non-Norwegian citizen, living outside of Norway  478  199  279 41.6 58.4
           
Level of education          
Lower secondary education 2 178 1 139 1 039 52.3 47.7
Upper secondary education 16 099 8 231 7 868 51.1 48.9
Tertiary education, short 7 605 4 484 3 121 59.0 41.0
Tertiary education, long 3 234 1 675 1 559 51.8 48.2
Other 2 294 1 274 1 020 55.5 44.5
1  Personal owned enterprises are sole proprietorships, general partnerships and general partnerships with shared liability.
2  Enterprises that only have juridical persons (enterprises) as actors, or no registered information about actors are not included in the statistics.

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