Table 9.3 Males 15 years and over, by economic activity and industry. Per cent

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


Males 15 years and over, total	570 866	602 630	683 582	716 463	856 785	963 417
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Persons economically active¹	91.5	90.5	90.2	90.4	90.9	88.1
Agriculture	44.2	38.3	32.3	33.3	28.5	27.4
Forestry, etc	1.6	2.3	3.1	2.7	4.0	3.3
Fishing, etc., and whaling	5.8	9.2	7.2	7.0	6.7	8.4
Mining and quarrying	0.6	0.7	0.7	1.1	1.1	1.4
Manufacturing	11.4	14.4	16.0	15.9	18.3	16.6
Construction					8.9	7.4
	6.0	5.9	9.0	7.3
Electricity, gas, water, sanitary services					0.8	0.7
Wholesale and retail trade	3.8	4.7	5.4	5.4	6.7	7.5
Financial institutions and real estate	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.4	0.8	0.7
Water transport	9.0	7.9	7.1	6.8	4.9	5.2
Transport and communications other than water transport	0.9	1.3	1.8	2.1	3.9	4.0
Government services	1.3	1.4	1.7	1.5	1.6	1.4
Community and business services	1.3	1.7	1.9	2.2	2.5	2.8
Personal services	1.5	1.3	1.0	0.8	0.8	0.9
Activities not adequately described	4.0	1.2	2.7	3.9	0.6	0.4
Persons not economically active	8.2	9.5	9.7	9.3	9.9	11.8
Unknown	0.3	0.0	0.1	0.3	0.0	0.1

	1946	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990


Males 15 years and over, total	1 191 633	1 215 809	1 313 341	²1 412 566	²1 536 826	²1 662 394
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Persons economically active¹	86.6	87.2	82.6	74.9	64.2	58.1
Agriculture	21.5	18.5	13.4	7.1	4.0	2.9
Forestry, etc	3.2	3.2	2.4	0.8	0.3	0.4
Fishing, etc., and whaling	6.1	5.7	4.1	1.9	1.1	0.8
Mining and quarrying	0.7	0.8	0.7	0.6	0.6	1.0
Manufacturing	19.6	22.7	22.1	22.7	18.0	13.8
Construction	10.1	10.5	10.0	9.0	7.9	7.2
Electricity, gas, water, sanitary services	0.8	0.8	0.9	1.0	0.9	1.0
Wholesale and retail trade	6.2	6.4	7.5	8.1	8.1	7.6
Financial institutions and real estate	0.8	0.9	1.1	1.3	1.6	1.9
Water transport	4.6	5.1	6.0	4.3	2.3	1.3
Transport and communications other than water transport	5.3	5.1	5.2	5.1	4.9	4.6
Government services	2.7	2.5	3.2	5.0	5.6	4.5
Community and business services	3.2	3.6	4.7	6.8	7.7	10.1
Personal services	0.9	0.9	0.9	1.0	0.8	1.0
Activities not adequately described	0.9	0.5	0.4	0.2	0.4	-
Persons not economically active	13.0	12.4	17.4	25.1	35.8	41.9
Unknown	0.4	0.4	-	-	-	-

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