Statistics Norway

Accounts for joint stock companies

6   Operating margin in per cent3
  1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 20051
All non-financial joint-stock companies 6.0 7.3 10.2 8.7 7.6 10.1 16.3 20.6
Information sector 5.6 6.6 2.9 -2.9 -8.7 28.5 12.2 12.2
ICT-sector 5.7 6.1 1.8 -4.3 -12.1 28.7 13.3 13.0
ICT-Manufacturing industry 9.8 5.5 4.5 2.5 -0.9 7.3 7.9 11.4
ICT-Wholesale2 2.9 1.3 -5.5 -3.4 0.0 2-1.5 2.0 0.3
Telecommunications 9.9 14.2 16.1 2.2 -34.7 20.3 26.4 24.7
ICT-Consultancy services 2.2 3.4 -10.4 -18.4 -10.0 1.7 6.0 6.3
Content sector 5.2 6.6 7.1 3.4 5.3 8.2 8.9 10.0
Publishing industries 8.2 11.0 12.8 8.9 10.6 13.7 13.8 15.1
Information services 2.9 1.7 0.1 -2.7 -3.1 -0.9 2.6 3.0
Radio and television 1.7 1.1 2.5 -5.5 2.7 5.9 7.0 5.8
Motion picture and video activities -4.5 2.1 2.0 1.6 0.7 4.4 0.6 8.2
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  Operating result before tax in per cent of operating income.

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