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49 Employed persons by industry. Seasonally adjusted. Percentage change from the previous period
  2003 2004 03:3 03:4 04:1 04:2 04:3 04:4 05:1 05:2
                     
Total -0.6 0.2 0.1 0.0 -0.2 0.5 0.1 -0.0 0.1 0.1
                     
Agriculture, hunting and forestry -3.0 -2.8 0.3 -0.3 -1.5 -0.6 -0.5 -1.2 -1.2 -0.8
Fishing and fish farming -11.6 -4.8 -3.4 2.5 0.0 -3.5 -4.5 1.8 -0.9 -2.5
                     
Oil and gas extraction including services -2.0 0.5 0.7 -0.1 0.0 -1.3 0.8 1.3 -0.1 -0.9
Oil and gas extraction -0.8 1.2 0.2 1.7 -0.2 -1.4 0.1 1.9 0.2 -1.2
Service activities incidental to oil and gas -3.7 -0.4 1.3 -2.6 0.4 -1.1 1.7 0.5 -0.4 -0.6
Mining and quarrying -3.6 0.5 2.1 0.0 -2.2 1.9 0.0 2.4 -2.1 1.4
                     
Manufacturing -4.7 -3.0 -0.5 -0.7 -1.1 -0.8 -0.4 -0.2 -0.3 0.1
Food products, beverages and tobacco -2.2 -2.8 -0.1 -0.1 -1.2 -0.6 -0.9 -0.9 -1.1 -1.2
Textiles,wearing apparel, leather -11.6 -5.8 0.1 -2.4 -1.2 -1.5 2.9 -8.3 -2.6 2.0
Wood and wood products -2.1 -0.9 -0.8 0.2 -0.2 2.6 -4.9 0.5 0.8 0.9
Pulp, paper and paper products -5.3 -2.0 2.5 -1.3 -1.9 1.6 -0.7 -2.0 -1.7 -0.8
Publishing, printing, reproduction -4.1 -4.1 -1.9 0.4 -1.9 -1.7 -0.5 0.2 -0.6 0.3
Refined petroleum, chemical and mineral products -2.9 -1.8 -0.0 0.3 -0.9 -1.6 -0.4 0.7 1.3 -0.6
Basic chemicals -2.3 -6.0 -3.9 2.8 -4.7 -3.4 2.6 -3.5 2.5 -4.9
Basic metals -1.7 -3.7 0.0 -1.2 -3.2 0.9 -0.4 -1.6 2.8 -1.7
Machinery and other equipment n.e.c -5.4 -2.1 -0.4 -1.8 -0.0 -0.2 0.0 0.5 -0.9 0.7
Building of ships, oil platforms and moduls -9.4 -4.5 -0.1 -0.8 -1.9 -1.9 -0.4 2.6 0.3 1.6
Furniture and other manufacturing n.e.c -5.5 -4.1 -0.7 -1.7 0.3 -3.3 1.3 -2.6 -0.6 3.3
                     
Electricity and gas supply -1.9 1.0 1.3 -0.8 0.4 1.2 -0.9 1.7 -2.0 0.3
Water supply 1.0 9.9 -0.3 1.0 15.7 -9.1 8.6 -10.3 10.1 -8.7
Construction1 -0.1 0.9 0.2 0.8 -0.0 0.7 -0.1 -0.4 2.3 0.5
Wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor vehicl 1.9 1.7 1.1 -0.3 -0.2 1.2 1.0 0.2 -1.0 1.1
Hotels and restaurants -1.2 1.1 1.5 -1.9 1.5 0.9 0.1 -1.4 0.7 0.2
Transport via pipelines -8.2 -7.6 12.9 -11.6 -2.5 -3.8 6.9 -6.2 -0.8 -2.4
Ocean transport -1.9 -2.2 -1.1 -0.1 -1.4 0.1 -1.2 0.7 -0.8 -2.5
Other transport industries -2.2 -1.2 1.1 0.3 -2.4 -0.0 0.9 0.6 -1.0 -0.3
Post and telecommunications -3.0 -2.3 -3.4 -1.3 1.8 -0.4 -3.3 2.9 -3.9 -0.8
Financial intermediation -1.9 -0.8 -1.2 -0.2 0.3 -0.1 -0.5 0.1 -0.9 -0.2
Dwellings (households) 1.8 -3.2 2.3 -1.2 -4.2 1.5 4.0 -7.3 6.8 -5.6
Business services 0.0 2.0 -0.1 -0.3 0.7 1.7 0.4 0.5 1.0 -0.7
Public administration and defence -2.1 -0.8 -0.2 0.1 -0.7 0.3 -0.5 -0.1 -0.9 -0.8
Education 1.1 0.1 -1.2 0.1 0.0 0.6 -0.1 0.3 0.5 -0.8
Health and social work 1.3 1.1 0.3 0.4 0.2 0.6 0.2 -0.5 0.7 1.1
Other social and personal services -0.1 2.5 1.3 1.8 -1.0 0.7 1.8 -0.3 1.1 -0.2
                     
Mainland Norway -0.6 0.2 0.1 0.0 -0.2 0.5 0.1 -0.1 0.1 0.2
                     
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General government -0.4 0.4 -0.2 0.1 0.4 0.2 -0.2 -0.3 0.2 0.5
Central government -1.3 2.9 0.2 -0.0 2.5 0.6 -0.4 -0.3 0.3 0.6
Civilian central government -1.1 3.5 0.3 -0.1 3.1 0.7 -0.3 -0.4 0.8 0.8
Defence -2.2 -1.6 -0.4 0.2 -1.2 0.3 -1.2 0.5 -3.5 -0.9
Local government 0.1 -1.0 -0.4 0.2 -0.8 -0.0 -0.0 -0.2 0.2 0.4

1) Local government own-account construction activities are from 2001 reclassified as secondary activities of other local government industries 2) From 2002 on, specialist health services are transferred from local to central government

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