Statistics Norway

Entrepreneurs in business enterprise sector

7 Entrepreneurs in in newly established enterprises1 in 2005, by survival of enterprise and the entrepreneurs' gender, age, and level of education
  Personally owned enterprises2 Private and public limited companies
  Entrepreneurs, total Percantage of enterprises surviving Entrepreneurs, total Percantage of enterprises surviving
  2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Gender                        
I alt 34 028 44.6 38.7 32.6 27.2 23.2 18 543 69.2 66.9 62.0 56.2 50.5
Women 11 143 40.1 33.9 28.5 23.8 20.4 3 325 72.2 69.0 63.8 57.2 50.9
Men 22 885 46.8 41.0 34.6 28.8 24.6 15 218 68.6 66.5 61.6 56.0 50.4
                         
Agegroups                        
I alt 34 028 44.6 38.7 32.6 27.2 23.2 18 543 69.2 66.9 62.0 56.2 50.5
16-24 years 4 051 36.2 30.7 24.7 19.6 16.1  549 69.2 65.2 57.6 51.2 42.1
25-34 years 12 323 42.8 36.4 30.2 24.6 20.7 3 986 76.2 71.2 65.8 58.7 51.6
35-44 years 9 240 47.1 41.4 35.3 29.7 25.4 6 258 70.3 67.8 63.1 57.1 51.3
45-54 years 5 239 48.0 42.9 37.3 31.7 28.0 4 712 66.7 65.3 60.0 55.0 50.2
55-66 years 2 727 50.0 43.3 37.6 32.9 28.5 2 674 62.1 63.1 59.2 54.8 50.0
67 years and older  448 47.1 38.8 29.0 25.4 19.6  364 58.2 58.0 52.7 48.6 44.8
                         
Level of education                        
Total 34 028 44.6 38.7 32.6 27.2 23.2 18 543 69.2 66.9 62.0 56.2 50.5
Lower secondary education 2 105 46.6 40.8 34.9 29.3 24.9 2 364 74.7 69.3 63.3 57.0 49.3
Upper secondary education 17 719 47.2 41.1 34.5 28.7 24.4 8 632 72.3 70.0 64.9 59.2 53.5
Tertiary education, short3 8 136 38.6 33.1 28.2 23.4 20.2 4 943 64.8 63.1 58.0 54.4 46.9
Tertiary education, long4 3 196 45.5 38.3 32.7 28.0 25.0 2 155 61.4 61.8 58.7 54.3 50.8
Other 2 872 43.6 38.0 31.5 26.0 21.1  449 66.6 62.8 57.9 46.1 38.3
1  Enterprises that only have juridical persons (enterprises) as actors, or no registered information about actors are not included in the statistics.
2  Personal owned enterprises are sole proprietorships, general partnerships and general partnerships with shared liability.
3  Tertiary education, short, comprises higher education 4 years or shorter.
4  Tertiary education, long, comprises higher education more than 4 years.

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