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49 Employed persons by industry. Seasonally adjusted. Percentage change from the previous period
  2004 2005 04:1 04:2 04:3 04:4 05:1 05:2 05:3 05:4
                     
Total 0.4 0.7 0.0 0.5 0.2 -0.0 0.1 0.2 0.5 0.3
                     
Agriculture, hunting and forestry -2.8 -3.5 -0.8 -1.1 -0.3 -1.5 -1.4 -0.4 0.1 -0.9
Fishing and fish farming -4.8 -5.4 -0.1 -3.4 -2.9 -0.3 -0.7 -2.4 -1.1 0.3
                     
Oil and gas extraction including services 0.6 3.0 0.6 -1.4 0.4 1.1 -0.2 -0.2 5.0 0.7
Oil and gas extraction 1.2 1.9 0.2 -1.5 0.0 1.4 -0.8 0.3 3.2 0.6
Service activities incidental to oil and gas -0.4 4.7 1.2 -1.3 0.9 0.7 0.7 -1.0 7.9 0.7
Mining and quarrying 0.6 -0.2 -1.9 2.0 0.6 1.4 -1.8 1.1 -3.5 3.0
                     
Manufacturing -2.9 -0.8 -1.1 -0.8 -0.3 -0.3 -0.5 0.2 -0.1 0.7
Food products, beverages and tobacco -2.8 -3.4 -1.1 -0.9 -0.4 -1.2 -1.5 -1.1 -0.0 1.2
Textiles,wearing apparel, leather -5.7 -5.0 1.1 -0.9 0.7 -5.2 -2.4 2.1 -0.8 0.2
Wood and wood products -0.9 0.8 -0.3 2.9 -5.1 0.4 0.9 1.3 0.3 1.4
Pulp, paper and paper products -2.0 -4.0 -1.4 1.0 -1.2 -1.3 -1.4 -1.3 0.0 -1.4
Publishing, printing, reproduction -4.0 -2.4 -1.9 -1.9 -0.1 0.0 -0.7 0.0 -2.5 -0.1
Refined petroleum, chemical and mineral products -1.8 0.9 -1.1 -1.6 -0.1 0.4 1.2 -0.7 0.4 0.6
Basic chemicals -6.0 -4.6 -6.0 -3.4 2.5 -1.6 0.7 -5.2 1.6 -5.7
Basic metals -2.4 0.4 -4.3 2.2 -0.4 -0.4 0.4 -0.5 1.6 -1.8
Machinery and other equipment n.e.c -2.1 0.4 0.3 -0.3 0.3 -0.0 -0.6 0.7 0.3 1.2
Building of ships, oil platforms and moduls -4.3 3.4 -1.6 -1.8 -0.3 2.1 -0.3 2.0 0.9 3.0
Furniture and other manufacturing n.e.c -4.1 -1.7 -0.1 -3.6 1.7 -2.4 -1.0 3.0 -1.8 -0.7
                     
Electricity and gas supply 1.1 -1.3 0.9 0.5 -1.5 2.7 -1.9 -0.3 -1.2 0.6
Water supply 12.4 -0.0 19.4 -9.1 7.4 -10.2 9.5 -8.0 16.1 -12.9
Construction 2.0 3.0 0.8 1.0 0.1 -0.2 1.7 0.7 1.0 0.3
Wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor vehicl 2.3 1.1 1.0 0.7 0.8 -0.1 -0.2 0.7 0.5 -0.1
Hotels and restaurants 1.2 0.3 1.7 0.8 0.1 -1.3 0.6 0.5 0.1 -0.1
Transport via pipelines -0.0 -0.5 14.0 -10.8 -0.2 2.0 5.3 -4.7 -1.1 -0.4
Ocean transport -2.2 -4.4 -1.0 -0.1 -1.2 0.5 -2.0 -2.5 -0.7 0.1
Other transport industries -0.5 0.6 -0.9 0.3 0.8 -0.3 0.0 -0.6 0.9 1.2
Post and telecommunications -2.8 -3.1 1.9 -0.5 -3.7 1.4 -2.1 -0.5 -0.0 1.8
Financial intermediation -0.8 -0.1 0.4 0.2 -0.6 -0.1 -0.7 0.0 1.5 0.6
Dwellings (households) -3.2 -1.8 -3.6 0.0 3.5 -6.1 -0.9 0.7 6.7 -6.7
Business services 2.5 2.9 1.6 1.8 0.1 0.3 1.1 -0.1 1.5 1.4
Public administration and defence -1.1 -1.1 -1.9 0.9 -0.0 0.4 -1.5 0.4 -0.6 -0.2
Education -0.2 0.5 -0.2 1.0 -0.1 -0.1 0.2 -0.2 0.3 0.9
Health and social work 0.9 1.7 -0.3 0.7 0.4 0.1 0.6 0.5 0.8 -0.1
Other social and personal services 2.7 2.0 -0.7 0.9 1.5 -0.0 1.1 0.2 -0.2 -0.1
                     
Mainland Norway 0.4 0.8 0.0 0.5 0.2 -0.1 0.1 0.2 0.5 0.3
                     
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General government 0.2 0.8 -0.2 0.5 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.3 0.4 0.1
Central government 2.2 0.4 1.3 0.9 -0.1 0.6 -0.7 0.2 0.1 0.5
Civilian central government 2.7 1.6 1.8 0.9 0.1 0.7 0.2 0.5 0.1 0.7
Defence -1.6 -8.2 -1.6 0.7 -1.0 0.3 -6.9 -1.6 0.3 -0.6
Local government -1.0 1.1 -1.2 0.3 0.2 -0.1 0.5 0.3 0.6 -0.2

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