Table 10 Equity ratio in per cent

10	Equity ratio in per cent⁴

	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003¹


All non-financial joint-stock companies	37.6	37.9	36.7	35.3	35.2	36.6
Information sector	34.1	39.6	39.0	35.7	32.1	²36.6
ICT-sector	33.3	39.9	39.2	35.5	33.0	²36.8
ICT-Manufacturing industry	45.8	45.4	45.0	43.4	46.9	46.5
ICT-Wholesale²	26.1	32.3	36.3	31.6	30.0	²31.8
Telecommunications	30.4	40.1	37.7	33.4	29.7	34.9
ICT-Consultancy services	35.5	42.7	46.2	43.2	41.0	42.8
Data base activities³	27.0	45.0	43.6	38.9	38.8	55.1
Content sector	37.0	38.4	37.3	36.6	35.2	35.4
Publishing industries	41.2	42.4	40.5	39.5	36.5	37.1
Information services	27.4	23.2	25.2	27.3	22.3	21.1
Radio and television	38.3	43.1	43.8	40.9	45.4	42.8
Motion picture and video activities	9.9	16.5	20.6	20.6	21.7	20.9

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.
⁴	Equity in per cent of total equity and liabilities at 31 December.