More people employed in all counties except for Finnmark

From 1995 to 1996 the number of workers in Norway increased by 2.6 per cent or 45,700. Growth the year before was 2.2 per cent. The increase from 1995 to 1996 was the greatest in Oslo, with 3.7 per cent, while Finnmark saw a 1.2 per cent decline. All other counties reported an increase in the number of workers, according to Statistics Norway's new statistics on employees by residence.

Oslo had the largest percentage-wise increase from 1995 to 1996 for both male and female workers, with respectively 3.8 and 3.6 per cent. On a national basis, the number of male workers increased by 2.4 per cent while the number of female employees rose by 2.7 per cent. Most counties in Eastern, Southern and Western Norway had a larger percentage-wise increase for female than for male employees.

Strong growth was also seen in the number of workers in Buskerud and Aust-Agder, with both reporting a 3.4 per cent increase from 1995 to 1996.

Finnmark was the only county to post a decline in the number of workers in the last year. Here, the main decrease was among male employees. Among the other counties, Sogn og Fjordane had the lowest percentage-wise increase in the number of workers, with 0.8 per cent.

New Statistics

Employees by municipality of residence, 4th Q 1996.
Statistics are published annually in the Weekly Bulletin of Statistics and are also accessible in municipal data in the Official Statistics of Norway (NOS) Regional Statistics and in the Regional Statistics database. More information: Zeleke Kebede, tel. +47 21 09 47 92, e-mail: zck@ssb.no or Kari Kraakenes, tel. +47 21 09 47 86, e-mail: kkr@ssb.no.

Weekly Bulletin issue no. 15, 1997