Statistics Norway

Publicly owned enterprises, structural business statistics

3   Local government-owned enterprises, by organizational structure. Number and per cent. 1999-2004
Organizational structure Absolute figures
  1999   2000   2001   2002   2003   2004
General Partnership 23 19 13 10 8 8
Private limited Company/ Public limited Company  763  745  867  941  925 1 420
Company with limited liability 43 37 35 23 21 15
General Partnership with shared liability 54 47 34 30 26 20
Association/ club/ organisation 15 12 11 13 12 8
Intermunicipal company 6 21 32 67  102  147
Municipal enterprise/ County municipal company 7 34 74  110  161  206
Limited Partnership 0 0 1 2 2 3
Municipal unit1  613  588  538  449  393  348
Foundation 35 34 32 29 29 28
Other 1 1 1 1 1 0
Total 1 560 1 538 1 638 1 675 1 680 2 203
  Per cent
  1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
General Partnership 1.5 1.2 0.8 0.6 0.5 0.4
Private limited Company/ Public limited Company 48.9 48.4 52.9 56.2 55.1 64.5
Company with limited liability 2.8 2.4 2.1 1.4 1.3 0.7
General Partnership with shared liability 3.5 3.1 2.1 1.8 1.5 0.9
Association/ club/ organisation 1.0 0.8 0.7 0.8 0.7 0.4
Intermunicipal company 0.4 1.4 2.0 4.0 6.1 6.7
Municipal enterprise/ County municipal company 0.4 2.2 4.5 6.6 9.6 9.4
Limited Partnership 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
Municipal unit1 39.3 38.2 32.8 26.8 23.4 15.8
Foundation 2.2 2.2 2.0 1.7 1.7 1.3
Other 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0
Total  100.0  100.0  100.0  100.0  100.0  100.0
1  Unit organized by municipal act §11 and §27 etc.

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