Table 9.2 Persons 15 years and over, by economic activity and industry. Per cent

9.2 Persons 15 years and over, by economic activity and industry. Per cent
Industry¹	1875	1890	1900	1910	1920	1930


Persons 15 years and over, total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Persons economically active¹	61.7	60.7	61.1	59.7	59.4	57.8
Agriculture	28.4	24.5	20.0	18.7	16.8	15.1
Forestry, etc	0.8	1.1	1.5	1.3	1.9	1.6
Fishing, etc., and whaling	2.8	4.3	3.4	3.3	3.2	4.0
Mining and quarrying	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.5	0.5	0.7
Manufacturing	8.0	10.2	11.9	11.4	12.0	10.7
Construction					4.3	3.6
	2.9	2.8	4.2	3.4
Electricity, gas, water, sanitary services					0.4	0.3
Wholesale and retail trade	2.1	2.9	3.8	4.0	5.1	5.7
Financial institutions and real estate	0.0	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.5	0.4
Water transport	4.3	3.7	3.4	3.2	2.4	2.6
Transport and communications other than water transport	0.5	0.7	1.0	1.2	2.3	2.2
Government services	0.6	0.6	0.8	0.7	0.8	0.8
Community and business services	0.8	1.3	1.6	1.9	2.5	2.8
Personal services	7.3	7.3	7.7	8.0	6.4	7.1
Activities not adequately described	2.9	0.8	1.3	1.9	0.3	0.2
Persons not economi- cally active	37.9	39.3	38.7	39.9	40.6	42.2
Unknown	0.4	0.0	0.2	0.4	0.0	0.0

	1946	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990


Persons 15 years and over, total	100.0	100.0	100.0	² 100.0	² 100.0	² 100.0
Persons economically active¹	56.1	56.0	52.8	50.9	46.4	43.2
Agriculture	12.1	10.1	7.1	4.5	2.9	2.0
Forestry, etc	1.6	1.6	1.2	0.4	0.2	0.2
Fishing, etc., and whaling	3.0	2.8	2.0	1.0	0.5	0.4
Mining and quarrying	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.6
Manufacturing	12.5	14.4	13.5	13.6	10.8	8.3
Construction	5.0	5.2	5.0	4.5	4.1	3.7
Electricity, gas, water, sanitary services	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.6
Wholesale and retail trade	5.0	5.3	6.1	6.9	6.7	5.9
Financial institutions and real estate	0.5	0.7	0.9	1.2	1.4	1.7
Water transport	2.3	2.7	3.2	2.3	1.3	0.7
Transport and communications other than water transport	3.1	3.0	3.1	3.1	3.2	3.1
Government services	1.7	1.6	2.0	3.1	3.7	3.3
Community and business services	3.6	3.9	4.9	7.3	9.2	11.2
Personal services	4.4	3.6	2.8	2.0	1.3	1.4
Activities not adequately described	0.5	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.3	-
Persons not economi- cally active	43.6	43.8	47.2	49.1	53.6	56.8
Unknown	0.3	0.2	-	-	-	-

¹	See http://www.ssb.no/english/subjects/00/histstat/kap09.html
²	Persons 16 years and over.
Source: Population and housing censuses.
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