Statistics Norway

Norwegian business enterprise sector, ownership and roles

5 Owners in newly-established personally-owned enterprises1, 2 in 2005, by the survival of enterprise in 2006, and the owner's gender, age, national background, immigrant category, level of education and broad field of education
  Owner total Number of owners Survival percentage
  Survived Not survived Survived Not survived
Gender          
Total 34 028 15 184 18 844 44.6 55.4
Women 11 143 4 468 6 675 40.1 59.9
Men 22 885 10 716 12 169 46.8 53.2
           
Age groups          
Total 34 028 15 184 18 844 44.6 55.4
16-24 years 4 051 1 467 2 584 36.2 63.8
25-34 years 12 323 5 273 7 050 42.8 57.2
35-44 years 9 240 4 356 4 884 47.1 52.9
45-54 years 5 239 2 514 2 725 48.0 52.0
55-66 years 2 727 1 363 1 364 50.0 50.0
67 years and older  448  211  237 47.1 52.9
           
National background          
Total 34 028 15 184 18 844 44.6 55.4
Norwegian national background 29 259 13 157 16 102 45.0 55.0
Non-Norwegian citizen, living outside of Norway  671  287  384 42.8 57.2
EU/EEA, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand 1 856  789 1 067 42.4 57.6
Asia, Africa, Latin America, Oceania except Australia and New Zealand, and Europe except EU/EEA 2 242  951 1 291 42.4 57.6
           
           
Level of education          
Total 34 028 15 184 18 844 44.6 55.4
Lower secondary education 2 105  980 1 125 46.6 53.4
Upper secondary education 17 719 8 359 9 360 47.2 52.8
Tertiary education, short 8 136 3 140 4 996 38.6 61.4
Tertiary education, long 3 196 1 454 1 742 45.5 54.5
Other 2 872 1 251 1 621 43.6 56.4
1  Personally-owned enterprises are sole proprietorships, general partnerships and general partnerships with shared liability.
2  Enterprises that only have juristic persons (enterprises) as participants, and no registered information about participants is included in the statistics.

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