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49 Employed persons by industry. Seasonally adjusted. Percentage change from the previous period
  2004 2005 04:2 04:3 04:4 05:1 05:2 05:3 05:4 06:1
                     
Total 0.4 0.7 0.5 0.2 0.0 -0.1 0.2 0.6 0.4 0.9
                     
Agriculture, hunting and forestry -2.8 -3.5 -1.0 -0.6 -1.3 -1.5 -0.3 -0.3 -0.6 -1.1
Fishing and fish farming -4.8 -5.4 -3.6 -2.8 -0.2 -0.7 -2.6 -1.0 0.3 -2.5
                     
Oil and gas extraction including services 0.6 3.0 -1.3 0.3 1.3 -0.5 0.0 4.9 0.9 -1.0
Oil and gas extraction 1.2 1.9 -1.4 0.0 1.6 -1.0 0.5 3.1 0.8 -2.2
Service activities incidental to oil and gas -0.4 4.7 -1.1 0.9 0.9 0.3 -0.7 7.7 1.0 0.8
Mining and quarrying 0.6 -0.2 2.2 -0.1 2.0 -1.9 1.5 -4.3 3.8 -0.0
                     
Manufacturing -2.9 -0.8 -0.8 -0.3 -0.3 -0.5 0.1 -0.1 0.7 0.0
Food products, beverages and tobacco -2.8 -3.4 -1.1 -0.6 -1.3 -1.2 -1.3 -0.3 1.3 -2.7
Textiles,wearing apparel, leather -5.7 -5.0 -0.9 0.9 -5.6 -1.9 1.8 -0.6 -0.4 -1.6
Wood and wood products -0.9 0.8 3.0 -5.1 0.4 0.8 1.4 0.3 1.4 -0.5
Pulp, paper and paper products -2.0 -4.0 1.1 -1.2 -1.4 -1.3 -1.3 0.1 -1.6 0.2
Publishing, printing, reproduction -4.0 -2.4 -2.0 -0.2 -0.0 -0.4 -0.1 -2.6 -0.2 -1.1
Refined petroleum, chemical and mineral products -1.8 0.9 -1.8 0.0 0.5 1.2 -0.9 0.6 0.7 1.7
Basic chemicals -6.0 -4.6 -3.2 2.6 -1.4 0.2 -4.9 1.7 -5.5 3.3
Basic metals -2.4 0.4 2.0 -0.4 -0.5 0.8 -0.7 1.7 -2.0 -0.5
Machinery and other equipment n.e.c -2.1 0.4 -0.3 0.3 0.0 -0.7 0.7 0.2 1.2 0.7
Building of ships, oil platforms and moduls -4.3 3.4 -1.7 -0.3 2.3 -0.8 2.2 0.9 3.2 2.8
Furniture and other manufacturing n.e.c -4.1 -1.7 -3.6 1.8 -2.4 -1.0 3.0 -1.7 -0.8 0.2
                     
Electricity and gas supply 1.1 -1.3 0.6 -1.1 2.5 -2.3 -0.2 -0.7 0.3 -0.0
Water supply 12.4 2.7 -9.0 7.5 -10.5 13.1 -8.2 16.5 -14.1 12.5
Construction 2.0 3.0 0.9 0.3 -0.1 1.5 0.7 1.3 0.4 2.5
Wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor vehicl 2.3 1.1 0.6 0.9 -0.1 -0.1 0.6 0.6 -0.1 0.8
Hotels and restaurants 1.2 0.3 1.0 0.1 -1.1 0.2 0.8 0.1 -0.0 1.1
Transport via pipelines -0.0 -0.5 -11.2 -0.2 2.0 5.7 -5.2 -1.0 -0.4 0.9
Ocean transport -2.2 -4.4 -0.1 -1.2 0.3 -1.8 -2.5 -0.6 -0.2 -0.6
Other transport industries -0.5 0.6 0.5 0.8 -0.3 -0.2 -0.3 0.8 1.2 0.1
Post and telecommunications -2.8 -3.1 -0.4 -3.8 1.7 -2.5 -0.4 -0.2 2.2 -0.2
Financial intermediation -0.8 -0.1 0.2 -0.6 -0.0 -0.8 0.1 1.5 0.7 0.7
Dwellings (households) -3.2 -1.8 -0.2 2.7 -5.0 -0.8 0.3 5.6 -5.4 0.1
Business services 2.5 2.8 1.8 0.3 0.6 0.5 -0.1 1.8 1.7 2.9
Public administration and defence -1.1 -1.9 0.9 -0.1 0.3 -2.2 0.4 -0.6 -0.3 -1.2
Education -0.2 0.7 0.9 -0.0 -0.1 0.4 -0.3 0.4 0.8 -0.3
Health and social work 0.9 1.4 0.6 0.4 0.1 0.3 0.4 0.8 -0.1 1.8
Other social and personal services 2.7 2.1 0.6 1.6 0.0 1.2 -0.2 -0.0 0.1 0.6
                     
Mainland Norway 0.4 0.7 0.5 0.2 -0.0 -0.0 0.2 0.6 0.4 0.9
                     
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General government 0.2 0.5 0.5 0.1 0.2 -0.2 0.2 0.5 0.0 1.0
Central government 2.2 0.2 0.9 -0.0 0.7 -0.9 0.3 0.2 0.6 0.2
Civilian central government 2.7 1.7 1.0 0.1 0.7 0.2 0.5 0.2 0.7 1.0
Defence -1.6 -9.9 0.7 -1.0 0.3 -8.7 -1.6 0.3 -0.6 -5.7
Local government -1.0 0.7 0.2 0.2 -0.2 0.3 0.2 0.6 -0.3 1.5

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