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Quarterly national accounts, 3. quarter 2008
53 Total hours worked. Employees and self-employed. Seasonally adjusted. Percentage change from the previous period
  2006 2007 06:4 07:1 07:2 07:3 07:4 08:1 08:2 08:3
                     
Total 3.2 4.4 0.8 1.4 1.4 0.8 1.1 0.8 0.8 0.6
                     
Agriculture, hunting and forestry -3.1 -2.9 -1.0 -0.5 -0.7 -0.4 -0.5 -0.6 -1.3 0.7
Fishing and fish farming 5.1 -0.1 3.3 -1.5 -0.9 -1.4 4.8 -1.3 -1.7 0.6
                     
Oil and gas extraction including services 2.4 7.6 -2.5 1.0 1.9 8.0 -3.0 0.3 1.0 9.0
Oil and gas extraction 0.2 4.2 3.3 -2.7 1.5 0.5 3.6 1.5 0.5 2.0
Service activities incidental to oil and gas 5.6 12.3 -9.9 6.5 2.3 17.9 -10.5 -1.2 1.7 18.2
Mining and quarrying 4.1 5.7 3.1 0.1 -1.1 8.7 -2.7 -0.4 6.6 -0.7
                     
Manufacturing 5.1 5.5 0.9 2.2 1.1 0.9 2.0 -0.5 1.3 0.6
Food products, beverages and tobacco 0.3 5.0 0.4 4.0 -0.0 1.1 1.7 -1.2 0.5 0.3
Textiles,wearing apparel, leather 5.8 1.0 -1.7 2.1 0.1 -3.9 0.3 -2.8 -2.8 1.0
Wood and wood products 3.1 3.7 0.3 1.0 0.3 0.1 1.9 -2.2 -1.5 1.1
Pulp, paper and paper products -9.4 -6.0 -2.8 -1.8 1.3 -2.5 0.9 -5.0 -0.4 -4.1
Publishing, printing, reproduction 1.0 3.9 0.4 3.4 -0.0 -1.3 2.4 -2.8 -0.5 -0.1
Refined petroleum, chemical and mineral products 3.0 5.9 0.4 3.6 0.9 0.9 3.0 -0.1 1.9 1.0
Basic chemicals 2.1 10.0 -1.0 6.8 3.8 1.0 -1.7 -5.7 8.6 -5.5
Basic metals 5.7 2.4 0.4 1.5 1.8 0.6 0.3 -3.4 7.7 -1.7
Machinery and other equipment n.e.c 8.2 8.6 2.3 2.3 2.5 1.8 2.4 1.2 2.0 1.7
Building of ships, oil platforms and moduls 17.8 4.5 1.2 -1.2 0.5 1.5 3.5 1.5 0.0 2.1
Furniture and other manufacturing n.e.c -4.0 3.0 1.0 1.4 -0.7 1.2 -0.5 1.6 -0.3 -0.6
                     
Electricity and gas supply -0.2 -0.4 1.1 -0.4 -0.0 -1.5 0.6 -1.2 0.5 0.1
Water supply -0.4 -0.1 -3.1 1.4 -0.1 1.7 3.8 0.1 0.9 0.3
Construction 8.3 10.5 1.6 3.8 2.8 2.3 1.4 -0.9 1.9 1.9
Wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor vehicl 0.0 3.9 0.1 1.5 1.5 0.6 1.3 1.0 0.9 -0.0
Hotels and restaurants 4.8 3.4 0.4 0.8 1.5 0.3 2.1 0.0 0.5 -1.3
Transport via pipelines -15.3 4.9 -4.8 4.8 0.5 -3.5 10.8 -1.8 -3.7 -8.8
Ocean transport 5.3 7.3 2.2 3.6 1.5 0.3 1.7 2.1 1.4 -0.3
Other transport industries 0.9 2.0 1.2 -0.4 1.2 -0.4 3.3 0.2 -0.5 1.3
Post and telecommunications -9.2 5.1 0.3 2.5 0.8 2.1 6.2 -1.8 -1.6 -0.7
Financial intermediation 0.2 2.4 0.3 0.9 1.1 0.9 -0.2 0.8 1.5 1.0
Dwellings (households) 1.8 2.0 1.7 2.6 0.0 -1.0 0.6 -2.1 3.0 2.5
Business services 11.2 7.9 1.4 3.6 2.3 0.1 0.7 4.4 2.1 -0.1
Public administration and defence 1.1 3.6 0.5 1.3 0.3 0.3 1.0 1.1 -0.8 0.2
Education 1.3 1.7 1.6 0.0 0.5 0.7 0.5 -0.2 0.7 0.7
Health and social work 2.4 2.5 0.8 -0.8 1.6 1.0 0.3 0.8 0.8 0.5
Other social and personal services 0.5 3.1 -0.1 1.4 1.5 -0.4 0.9 1.2 -1.1 1.5
                     
Mainland Norway 3.1 4.3 0.8 1.3 1.4 0.6 1.2 0.7 0.8 0.5
                     
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General government 1.1 2.3 0.8 0.3 0.9 0.8 0.6 0.7 0.3 0.6
Central government 0.8 1.4 0.7 -0.1 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.4 0.1 -0.5
Civilian central government 1.5 1.3 0.8 -0.5 0.7 0.8 1.0 0.5 0.3 -0.6
Defence -3.4 1.7 -0.2 2.8 0.4 -0.4 -0.9 -0.5 -1.5 -0.2
Local government 1.3 3.1 0.8 0.6 1.1 1.0 0.5 0.9 0.4 1.5