Table 5 Forest area with young forest tended, by county and size of productive forest area. 2003

5	Forest area with young forest tended, by county and size of productive forest area¹. 2003

	Properties¹ with young forest tended			Area with young forest tended, by labour category. Per cent

	Number of properties	As per cent of all forest properties	Area with young forest tended. Decares	Owner and unpaid family members	Hired labour	Contractor or others who undertook the work at a fixed price

1999	20 059	17	557 116	45	28	26
2003	15 558	13	321 635	59	24	17

Østfold	1 217	23	23 741	63	20	18
Akershus/Oslo	979	18	24 987	43	35	22
Hedmark	1 684	15	56 547	30	39	31
Oppland	1 178	11	26 626	53	29	18
Buskerud	1 226	17	33 119	53	21	25
Vestfold	805	22	18 098	63	25	12
Telemark	1 075	16	31 833	64	20	17
Aust-Agder	714	16	14 933	72	18	11
Vest-Agder	984	19	14 386	80	14	6
Rogaland	456	10	11 065	90	9	1
Hordaland	721	9	5 800	91	9	0
Sogn og Fjordane	542	9	3 583	98	1	2
Møre og Romsdal	580	7	6 135	94	5	1
Sør-Trøndelag	857	12	13 192	67	20	13
Nord-Trøndelag	1 083	17	20 676	64	26	10
Nordland	976	9	9 639	77	19	4
Troms/ Finnmark Finnmárku	482	6	7 275	92	1	7
Productive forest area. Decares
25- 99	2 788	8	22 965	99	1	0
100 - 249	3 483	11	38 954	94	3	3
250- 499	3 503	15	48 485	81	7	12
500- 999	2 520	16	47 675	75	10	15
1 000- 1 999	1 695	21	44 358	64	16	20
2 000- 4 999	1 053	30	46 212	44	27	29
5 000-19 999	374	39	30 594	18	39	43
20 000-	141	62	42 392	1	86	13

¹	Include properties with at least 25 decares productive forest area.