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49 Employed persons by industry. Seasonally adjusted. Percentage change from the previous period
  2004 2005 04:3 04:4 05:1 05:2 05:3 05:4 06:1 06:2
                     
Total 0.4 0.7 0.2 0.1 -0.1 0.1 0.6 0.5 0.8 0.6
                     
Agriculture, hunting and forestry -2.8 -3.5 -0.5 -1.4 -1.4 -0.3 -0.2 -0.7 -1.0 -0.8
Fishing and fish farming -4.8 -5.4 -2.2 0.1 -0.8 -3.5 -0.1 0.6 -2.6 3.5
                     
Oil and gas extraction including services 0.6 3.0 0.8 1.2 -0.9 0.0 5.3 0.8 -1.4 3.2
Oil and gas extraction 1.2 1.9 0.2 1.7 -1.1 0.3 3.4 0.9 -2.2 5.6
Service activities incidental to oil and gas -0.4 4.7 1.7 0.6 -0.6 -0.3 8.4 0.7 -0.1 -0.2
Mining and quarrying 0.6 -0.2 1.3 1.4 -1.3 -0.3 -2.3 2.9 0.7 1.8
                     
Manufacturing -2.9 -0.8 -0.3 -0.2 -0.5 0.1 -0.1 0.8 0.0 0.2
Food products, beverages and tobacco -2.8 -3.4 -0.7 -1.3 -1.2 -1.0 -0.5 1.3 -2.7 -0.0
Textiles,wearing apparel, leather -5.7 -5.0 0.8 -5.1 -1.6 0.8 -0.3 -0.0 -1.3 3.9
Wood and wood products -0.9 0.8 -5.0 0.3 0.8 1.4 0.4 1.3 -0.6 -0.5
Pulp, paper and paper products -2.0 -4.0 -1.3 -1.6 -1.5 -0.6 -0.2 -1.9 -0.1 -5.0
Publishing, printing, reproduction -4.0 -2.4 -0.2 0.0 -0.4 -0.1 -2.6 -0.1 -1.1 0.4
Refined petroleum, chemical and mineral products -1.8 0.9 -0.0 0.5 0.9 -0.5 0.5 0.7 1.3 -1.2
Basic chemicals -6.0 -4.6 2.6 -1.6 0.2 -4.7 1.6 -5.6 3.4 -0.1
Basic metals -2.4 0.4 -0.4 -0.6 0.7 -0.5 1.5 -2.1 -0.5 -0.5
Machinery and other equipment n.e.c -2.1 0.4 0.3 0.1 -0.6 0.6 0.2 1.4 0.8 0.6
Building of ships, oil platforms and moduls -4.3 3.4 -0.2 2.5 -0.6 1.8 1.0 3.4 2.9 1.7
Furniture and other manufacturing n.e.c -4.1 -1.7 1.8 -2.1 -0.9 2.5 -1.6 -0.5 0.4 1.4
                     
Electricity and gas supply 1.1 -1.3 -1.2 2.7 -2.2 -0.4 -0.8 0.5 -0.1 1.2
Water supply 12.4 2.7 7.5 -10.5 13.1 -8.2 16.5 -14.1 12.6 -11.4
Construction 2.0 3.0 0.2 0.1 1.3 0.7 1.2 0.7 2.2 1.1
Wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor vehicl 2.3 1.1 0.8 0.0 -0.2 0.6 0.6 0.1 0.6 0.5
Hotels and restaurants 1.2 0.3 0.0 -0.6 0.2 0.3 0.1 0.7 1.0 1.5
Transport via pipelines -0.0 -0.5 0.5 2.1 5.7 -6.3 0.2 -0.3 0.8 5.5
Ocean transport -2.2 -4.4 -1.3 0.3 -2.1 -2.1 -0.9 -0.1 -0.9 -2.0
Other transport industries -0.5 0.6 0.8 -0.3 -0.1 -0.5 0.8 1.2 0.2 0.9
Post and telecommunications -2.8 -3.1 -3.9 1.7 -2.5 -0.3 -0.3 2.2 -0.2 -0.7
Financial intermediation -0.8 -0.1 -0.6 0.0 -0.8 -0.0 1.5 0.8 0.7 0.6
Dwellings (households) -3.2 -1.8 3.3 -5.7 -1.1 0.7 6.4 -6.2 -0.3 -0.1
Business services 2.5 2.8 0.2 0.6 0.6 -0.2 1.7 1.8 3.0 2.0
Public administration and defence -1.1 -1.9 -0.1 0.3 -2.0 0.2 -0.6 -0.4 -0.6 -0.1
Education -0.2 0.7 -0.1 0.1 0.5 -0.6 0.3 1.0 -0.3 1.0
Health and social work 0.9 1.4 0.4 0.1 0.4 0.4 0.8 -0.1 1.5 0.3
Other social and personal services 2.7 2.1 1.4 0.2 1.1 0.1 -0.4 0.3 0.4 0.9
                     
Mainland Norway 0.4 0.7 0.2 0.1 -0.0 0.1 0.5 0.5 0.9 0.7
                     
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General government 0.2 0.5 0.1 0.2 -0.1 0.2 0.4 0.1 1.0 0.1
Central government 2.2 0.2 -0.0 0.6 -0.8 0.2 0.2 0.6 0.6 0.2
Civilian central government 2.7 1.7 0.1 0.7 0.2 0.5 0.2 0.7 1.0 0.3
Defence -1.6 -9.9 -1.2 0.1 -8.0 -1.9 -0.0 -0.8 -2.9 -0.6
Local government -1.0 0.7 0.2 -0.1 0.3 0.2 0.6 -0.2 1.2 0.1

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