Statistics Norway

Accounts for joint stock companies

10   Equity ratio in per cent3
  1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 20051
All non-financial joint-stock companies 37.6 37.9 36.7 35.3 35.2 36.3 36.8 39.6
Information sector 34.1 39.6 39.0 35.7 32.1 236.3 38.8 40.3
ICT-sector 33.3 39.9 39.2 35.5 33.0 236.6 39.3 39.7
ICT-Manufacturing industry 45.8 45.4 45.0 43.4 46.9 44.4 46.6 44.9
ICT-Wholesale2 26.1 32.3 36.3 31.6 30.0 231.5 33.5 32.9
Telecommunications 30.4 40.1 37.7 33.4 29.7 34.8 37.7 37.7
ICT-Consultancy services 35.5 42.7 46.2 43.2 41.0 42.3 46.2 48.7
Content sector 37.0 38.4 37.3 36.6 35.2 34.8 36.3 43.0
Publishing industries 41.2 42.4 40.5 39.5 36.5 36.4 38.7 46.1
Information services 27.4 23.2 25.2 27.3 22.3 21.0 21.1 27.3
Radio and television 38.3 43.1 43.8 40.9 45.4 42.4 38.4 41.6
Motion picture and video activities 9.9 16.5 20.6 20.6 21.7 20.3 18.3 20.8
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  Equity in per cent of total equity and liabilities at 31 December.

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