Table 1 Number of joint-stock companies

1	Number of joint-stock companies

	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003¹


All non-financial joint-stock companies	124 241	129 733	134 564	135 271	137 488	133 583
Information sector	9 335	10 111	11 048	11 110	11 251	²9 218
ICT-sector	6 206	6 802	7 683	7 864	8 081	²6 250
ICT-Manufacturing industry	303	302	302	308	312	313
ICT-Wholesale²	2 974	3 058	3 092	2 997	2 948	²1 390
Telecommunications	222	248	315	318	349	397
ICT-Consultancy services	2 707	3 194	3 974	4 241	4 472	4 150
Data base activities³	285	388	631	648	613	547
Content sector	3 129	3 309	3 365	3 246	3 170	2 968
Publishing industries	1 067	1 119	1 147	1 127	1 101	1 043
Information services	1 496	1 584	1 594	1 500	1 445	1 358
Radio and television	210	213	210	198	201	187
Motion picture and video activities	356	393	414	421	423	380

¹	Preliminary figures.
²	The delimitation of ICT-Wholesale is changed on and after 2003 because of changes in the industrial classification standard, see About statistics.
³	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.