Statistics Norway

Accounts for joint stock companies

1   Number of joint-stock companies
  1998 1999 2000 2001 20021
All non-financial joint-stock companies  124 241  129 733  134 564  135 271  130 969
Information sector 9 335 10 111 11 048 11 110 10 540
ICT-sector 6 206 6 802 7 683 7 864 7 581
ICT-Manufacturing industry  303  302  302  308  291
ICT-Wholesale 2 974 3 058 3 092 2 997 2 826
ICT-Telecommunications  222  248  315  318  327
ICT-Consultancy services 2 707 3 194 3 974 4 241 4 137
Data base activities2  285  388  631  648  579
Content sector 3 129 3 309 3 365 3 246 2 959
Publishing industries 1 067 1 119 1 147 1 127 1 036
Information services 1 496 1 584 1 594 1 500 1 361
Radio and television  210  213  210  198  189
Motion picture and video activities  356  393  414  421  373
1  Preliminary figures.
2  This industry is defined as a part of ICT consultancy services by OECD, but it will probably be a part of the content sector in 2007, see About the statistics.

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