Institutional sector
	Total		Private sector/publ. ent.		Central government		Local government
Næring	Quarter 2 2007	Quarter 2 2008	Quarter 2 2007	Quarter 2 2008	Quarter 2 2007	Quarter 2 2008	Quarter 2 2007	Quarter 2 2008
TOTAL	6,5	6,8	6,0	6,3	6,4	6,6	8,2	8,7
01-05 Agriculture,fishing and forestry	4,6	4,8	4,5	4,8	-	-	-	-
10,12-37 Manufacturing and mining	6,1	6,5	6,1	6,5	-	-	-	-
40-41 Electricity, gas and water supply	4,1	4,4	4,1	4,3	-	-	-	-
45 Construction	6,1	6,3	6,1	6,4	-	-	-	-
50-55 Domestic trade, hotels, rest.	6,1	6,4	6,1	6,4	-	-	-	-
60-64 Transport and communication	6,8	7,0	6,8	7,0	-	-	-	-
65-67 Financial intermediation	4,7	4,9	4,8	4,9	-	-	-	-
70-74 Real estate, business act.	5,0	5,1	5,0	5,1	-	-	-	-
75 Public administration	5,8	6,2	-	-	5,1	5,5	6,9	7,4
80 Education	6,3	6,6	6,0	5,8	4,5	4,6	6,8	7,2
85 Health and social work	9,1	9,6	8,6	9,1	8,3	8,7	9,7	10,4
90-99 Services n.e.c.	6,2	6,4	6,3	6,4	-	-	6,4	6,6

2 Easter was in the first quarter in 2008 and in the second quarter in 2007. This is influential when we compare second quarter figures from these two years. During Easter, scheduled man-days decrease more than man-days lost due to sickness absence, which leads to a higher sickness absent rate. Due to earlier observations, we estimate that if we did not take the Easter week into account, the sickness absence rate would have dropped about 0.1 percentage points in the second quarter in 2007.

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.