Statistics Norway
43 Employed persons by industry. Employees and self-employed. Percentage change from the same period in the previous year
  1997 1998 1999 99:1 99:2 99:3 99:4 0:1
Total 2.9 2.4 0.7 1.2 0.7 0.3 0.5 0.2
                 
Agriculture and hunting -2.0 -2.0 -2.2 -2.5 -2.7 -2.7 -0.9 -2.6
Forestry and logging -0.5 -1.3 -5.3 -11.0 -4.0 -8.5 2.3 0.7
Fishing and fish farming -1.5 -1.7 -3.7 -9.3 -6.6 -1.5 2.4 5.0
Oil and gas extraction incl. services 4.0 -0.2 -2.6 4.0 -2.5 -5.2 -6.3 -5.3
Oil and gas extraction -2.1 -4.6 -4.3 3.9 -4.5 -7.7 -8.4 -8.0
Service activities incidental to oil and gas ext 23.7 10.9 1.2 4.4 2.3 0.5 -1.9 0.7
Mining and quarrying -2.3 -1.4 -3.5 -1.3 -1.8 -5.0 -5.9 -2.5
Manufacturing 4.3 0.7 -2.7 -1.2 -2.1 -3.0 -4.3 -4.6
Food products, beverages and tobacco 1.5 -1.4 -3.3 -3.0 -3.4 -3.5 -3.5 -1.0
Textiles,wearing apparel, leather 2.8 -2.1 -10.7 -6.6 -4.1 -13.8 -17.8 -7.9
Wood and wood products 5.1 -1.2 -3.5 -5.9 -3.4 -2.3 -2.3 -1.8
Pulp, paper and paper products -2.4 0.9 -5.5 -7.0 -3.5 -6.0 -5.7 0.2
Publishing, printing, reproduction 3.3 0.3 -0.9 1.0 -2.8 0.5 -2.3 -2.5
Refined petroleum products -1.4 -5.6 -8.0 -3.8 -8.4 -9.3 -9.9 -7.7
Basic chemicals -5.3 1.6 -1.6 -0.9 -1.9 -3.0 -0.5 0.3
Chemical and mineral products 4.1 0.4 -0.5 -2.8 1.1 0.6 -0.9 -3.0
Basic metals -0.8 1.5 -1.9 -2.5 -0.3 -0.0 -4.7 -1.7
Machinery and other equipment n.e.c 5.7 0.9 -2.4 1.0 -1.7 -4.4 -4.5 -8.3
Building of ships, oil platforms and moduls 10.5 4.0 -2.1 2.3 -1.2 -2.2 -6.9 -8.3
Furniture and other manufacturing n.e.c 12.9 3.5 -3.9 -4.0 -3.0 -5.1 -3.4 -4.8
Electricity and gas supply -3.4 -4.0 -3.4 -4.5 -1.5 -3.8 -3.9 -2.9
Construction 8.4 7.2 -0.1 1.6 0.4 -0.7 -1.8 -1.4
Service industries excl. general government 3.4 3.4 1.5 2.3 1.3 0.7 1.6 0.9
Wholesale and retail trade 2.7 2.7 1.3 2.6 0.2 0.6 1.9 -0.2
Hotels and restaurants 3.7 3.2 1.4 3.4 3.1 -0.5 -0.1 0.8
Transport via pipelines 25.2 -3.3 -6.9 -6.9 -6.9 -6.9 -6.9 -7.5
Water transport 1.0 3.9 3.2 2.4 3.2 3.3 3.7 -0.2
Ocean transport 1.2 4.3 3.5 2.7 3.5 3.4 4.3 -0.7
Inland water and costal transport 0.1 2.0 1.7 1.3 1.8 2.7 0.8 2.1
Other transport activities 2.3 4.2 1.2 3.9 3.1 -0.6 -1.4 0.4
Post and telecommunications 0.5 2.2 -0.2 -0.2 0.7 -1.2 0.1 1.5
Financial intermediation -0.9 -3.1 -0.2 -2.8 -0.7 0.0 2.6 1.5
Dwelling services 3.3 2.5 -1.5 -3.0 -1.3 -1.4 -0.5 -4.5
Business services etc 10.7 9.0 3.8 6.2 3.4 2.5 3.5 2.4
Personal services 2.2 2.2 0.4 -0.2 0.1 0.5 1.3 1.8
General government 1.7 1.9 1.9 1.4 2.0 2.1 2.0 1.9
Central government 0.4 -1.0 0.1 -0.5 0.4 0.4 0.1 -0.1
Civilian central government 2.2 -0.3 0.3 0.4 -0.1 0.4 0.3 -0.1
Defence -3.7 -2.6 -0.4 -2.9 1.5 0.6 -0.7 -0.0
Local government 2.1 2.7 2.4 1.9 2.4 2.6 2.5 2.5
                 
Mainland Norway 2.9 2.4 0.6 1.1 0.7 0.3 0.5 0.2