Institutional sector
	Total		Private sector/publ. ent.		Central government		Local government
Næring	Quarter 1 2004	Quarter 1 2005	Quarter 1 2004	Quarter 1 2005	Quarter 1 2004	Quarter 1 2005	Quarter 1 2004	Quarter 1 2005
TOTAL	8,3	7,1	7,9	6,7	7,6	6,8	10,2	8,7
01-05 Agriculture,fishing and forestry	7,3	5,7	7,2	5,7	-	-	-	-
10,12-37 Manufacturing and mining	8,5	6,9	8,5	6,9	-	-	-	-
40-41 Electricity, gas and water supply	5,9	4,9	5,9	4,9	-	-	-	-
45 Construction	9,1	7,3	9,1	7,4	-	-	-	-
50-55 Domestic trade, hotels, rest.	7,5	6,4	7,5	6,4	-	-	-	-
60-64 Transport and communication	8,8	7,6	8,8	7,6	-	-	-	-
65-67 Financial intermediation	6,2	5,3	6,2	5,3	-	-	-	-
70-74 Real estate, business act.	6,5	5,7	6,4	5,6	-	-	-	-
75 Public administration	7,3	6,6	-	-	6,2	5,7	8,6	7,7
80 Education	8,0	7,0	7,1	6,1	5,3	4,9	8,8	7,6
85 Health and social work	11,1	9,5	10,4	8,7	9,8	8,6	12,1	10,3
90-99 Services n.e.c.	7,8	6,8	7,8	6,8	-	-	8,3	7,2

1 Certain combinations of industry and institutional sector contain to few enterprises for numbers to be presented.In such cases may there occur minor differences between the estimate for the industry as a whole and the estimate for an institutional sector, even if an estimate is only provided for one sector.

2 Easter was in the first quarter in 2005, and in the second quarter in 2004. This is influential when we compare first quarter figures from these two years. Both man-days lost due to sickness absence and scheduled man-days decrease significantly during Easter compared to a normal week at this time of the year. Easter has stronger influence on scheduled man-days than on man-days lost due to sickness. If we did not take the easter week into account the sickness absence rate would have dropped nearly 0.1 percentage points for most of the groups.

3 The hospitals were taken over by Central government in 2002.