43	Employed persons by industry. Employees and self-employed. Percentage change from the same period in the previous year

	1998	1999	2000	99:3	99:4	00:1	00:2	00:3	00:4
Total	2.4	0.7	0.4	0.3	0.5	0.2	0.8	0.5	0.3
Agriculture and hunting	-2.0	-2.2	-3.3	-2.7	-0.9	-2.5	-3.4	-2.9	-4.5
Forestry and logging	-1.3	-5.3	-0.3	-8.5	2.3	0.8	-0.7	1.4	-2.5
Fishing and fish farming	-1.7	-3.7	1.1	-1.5	2.4	5.1	4.7	-8.7	5.7
Oil and gas extraction incl. services	-0.2	-2.6	-4.0	-5.2	-6.3	-5.1	-1.2	-4.6	-4.9
Oil and gas extraction	-4.6	-4.3	-7.1	-7.7	-8.4	-7.8	-6.1	-6.5	-8.1
Service activities incidental to oil and gas ext	10.9	1.2	2.6	0.5	-1.9	0.9	9.3	-0.5	1.2
Mining and quarrying	-1.4	-3.5	-1.0	-5.0	-5.9	-2.3	-1.8	0.8	-0.7
Manufacturing	0.7	-2.7	-2.6	-3.0	-4.3	-4.3	-2.9	-1.9	-1.4
Food products, beverages and tobacco	-1.4	-3.3	-0.4	-3.5	-3.5	-0.8	0.1	-0.1	-1.0
Textiles,wearing apparel, leather	-2.1	-10.7	-4.5	-13.8	-17.8	-7.8	-3.8	-2.7	-3.5
Wood and wood products	-1.2	-3.5	-2.0	-2.3	-2.3	-1.6	-4.6	-4.0	2.5
Pulp, paper and paper products	0.9	-5.5	0.4	-6.0	-5.7	0.4	1.3	1.1	-1.3
Publishing, printing, reproduction	0.3	-0.9	-2.3	0.5	-2.3	-2.3	-1.0	-2.8	-3.1
Refined petroleum products	-5.6	-8.0	-8.1	-9.3	-9.9	-7.5	2.8	-12.1	-15.5
Basic chemicals	1.6	-1.6	1.8	-3.0	-0.5	0.5	1.5	1.9	3.1
Chemical and mineral products	0.4	-0.5	-1.6	0.6	-0.9	-2.1	-4.6	-0.7	1.2
Basic metals	1.5	-1.9	-0.5	-0.0	-4.7	1.7	-3.5	-0.2	0.0
Machinery and other equipment n.e.c	0.9	-2.4	-2.7	-4.4	-4.5	-8.8	-2.2	-0.1	0.7
Building of ships, oil platforms and moduls	4.0	-2.1	-9.7	-2.2	-6.9	-8.2	-11.4	-9.7	-9.5
Furniture and other manufacturing n.e.c	3.5	-3.9	-1.6	-5.1	-3.4	-4.7	-1.7	-0.1	0.2
Electricity and gas supply	-4.0	-3.4	-2.5	-3.8	-3.9	-2.7	-1.6	-3.3	-2.6
Construction	7.2	-0.1	1.5	-0.7	-1.8	-1.2	0.9	2.8	3.5
Service industries excl. general government	3.4	1.5	1.1	0.7	1.6	1.1	1.7	1.2	0.4
Wholesale and retail trade	2.7	1.3	0.6	0.6	1.9	0.0	1.4	0.9	-0.1
Hotels and restaurants	3.2	1.4	0.8	-0.5	-0.1	1.0	1.2	1.5	-0.5
Transport via pipelines	-3.3	-6.9	-7.6	-6.9	-6.9	-7.5	-7.5	-7.5	-7.5
Water transport	3.9	3.2	-1.1	3.3	3.7	-0.1	-0.5	-1.6	-2.1
Ocean transport	4.3	3.5	-1.3	3.4	4.3	-0.6	-0.5	-1.4	-2.7
Inland water and costal transport	2.0	1.7	0.1	2.7	0.8	2.3	-0.8	-2.2	1.3
Other transport activities	4.2	1.2	-0.1	-0.6	-1.4	0.5	-1.5	0.3	0.1
Post and telecommunications	2.2	-0.2	1.9	-1.2	0.1	1.6	1.9	1.5	2.5
Financial intermediation	-3.1	-0.2	-0.5	0.0	2.6	1.7	0.7	-1.5	-2.8
Dwelling services	2.5	-1.5	-0.7	-1.4	-0.5	-4.3	2.2	0.2	-0.9
Business services etc	9.0	3.8	4.2	2.5	3.5	2.6	5.4	4.1	4.9
Personal services	2.2	0.4	1.0	0.5	1.3	2.2	1.6	1.2	-1.0
General government	1.9	1.9	1.3	2.1	2.0	1.6	1.6	0.8	1.0
Central government	-1.0	0.1	0.9	0.4	0.1	0.3	1.2	1.0	1.1
Civilian central government	-0.3	0.3	1.4	0.4	0.3	0.5	1.9	1.7	1.7
Defence	-2.6	-0.4	-0.5	0.6	-0.7	-0.0	-0.6	-0.7	-0.5
Local government	2.7	2.4	1.4	2.6	2.5	2.0	1.7	0.8	1.0
Mainland Norway	2.4	0.6	0.5	0.3	0.5	0.3	0.8	0.6	0.5

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