Table 13 Forest area with young forest tended, by county and size of productive forest area. 2003

13	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	15 536	13	317 931	59	24	17

County
Østfold	1 216	23	23 504	63	19	18
Akershus/Oslo	977	18	24 793	43	35	22
Hedmark	1 677	15	55 231	31	37	31
Oppland	1 174	11	26 322	54	29	17
Buskerud	1 218	17	32 789	53	22	25
Vestfold	804	22	17 360	65	22	12
Telemark	1 074	16	31 801	64	20	17
Aust-Agder	713	16	14 912	72	18	11
Vest-Agder	982	19	14 365	80	14	6
Rogaland	456	10	11 065	90	9	1
Hordaland	717	9	5 793	91	9	-
Sogn og Fjordane	540	9	3 566	98	1	2
Møre og Romsdal	580	7	6 135	94	5	1
Sør-Trøndelag	856	12	13 177	67	20	13
Nord-Trøndelag	1 073	17	20 125	64	27	10
Nordland	976	9	9 639	77	19	4
Troms/ Finnmark	503	6	7 354	92	1	6

Productive forest area
25- 99 decares	2 788	8	22 965	99	1	-
100 - 249"	3 483	11	38 952	94	3	3
250- 499"	3 521	15	48 575	81	7	12
500- 999"	2 519	16	47 666	75	10	15
1 000- 1 999"	1 678	21	43 676	64	17	20
2 000- 4 999"	1 044	30	45 908	44	27	29
5 000-19 999"	368	39	30 175	19	39	42
20 000- "	134	61	40 015	1	86	13

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