Statistics Norway
45 Total hours worked. Employees and self-employed. Aggregated activity. Percentage change from the same period in the previous year
  1997 1998 1999 98:2 98:3 98:4 99:1 99:2 99:3 99:4
Total hours worked 2.5 2.3 0.3 -0.9 2.4 0.8 -0.7 1.3 -0.8 1.2
                     
Agriculture, forestry and fishing -2.0 -1.9 -2.8 -8.3 -2.5 -1.6 -5.9 -2.8 -3.7 1.0
Oil and gas extraction incl. services 4.3 0.2 -2.8 -3.4 0.9 1.2 2.9 -1.8 -6.3 -5.7
Manufacturing, mining and quarrying 4.0 0.7 -3.0 -1.8 -0.0 -0.3 -2.5 -1.8 -3.8 -4.0
Electricity and gas supply -3.6 -3.8 -3.4 -7.7 -4.7 -4.1 -6.0 -0.5 -4.5 -2.5
Construction 9.6 7.2 -0.6 3.2 7.3 4.1 -0.3 0.6 -1.5 -1.0
Service industries excl. general government 2.8 3.4 1.4 0.6 3.4 2.0 0.7 2.2 0.1 2.3
General government 0.9 1.6 1.7 -1.3 2.6 -0.7 -0.7 3.1 0.8 3.3
                     
Mainland Norway 2.5 2.3 0.2 -1.0 2.4 0.7 -0.8 1.3 -0.8 1.2