Labour Force Survey, 2nd quarter 1997:

Fewer temporary employees

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A total of 242,000 people were temporarily employed in the second quarter of this year in Norway, a decline of 14,000 from the same quarter last year. Temps made up 12 per cent of all employees this year, against 13 per cent last year, figures from Statistics Norway's Labour Force Survey show.

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The decline has taken place simultaneously with the strong growth in the overall number of employees, for both women and men. The decline in the number of temporary employees was the greatest for men (from 12 to 10 per cent). For women the percentage dropped from 15 to 14 per cent from the second quarter of 1996 to the same quarter this year. That more women than men are employed on a temporary basis must be viewed in connection with the fact that women work to a greater extent in industries where time-limited contracts are much more common.

New Statistics

Labour Force Survey, 2nd quarter 1997.
More information: Tor Petter Bø, tel. +47 21 09 47 87, e-mail: tpb@ssb.no or Inger Håland, tel. +47 21 09 47 80, e-mail: iha@ssb.no.

Weekly Bulletin issue no. 37, 1997