Business activities, structural business statistics, 2002, preliminary figures

This industry includes renting of machinery and equipment without operator and renting of personal and household goods. Within the industries renting of automobiles, renting of other transport equipment and renting of other machinery and equipment there was an increase in turnover, while renting of personal and household goods had a decrease in turnover in 2002.

Within real estate activities there was 27 471 enterprises in 2002, an increase of 3.6 per cent from 2001. The turnover was NOK 74.2 billion and the industry employed 23 375 persons, an increase of 12.3 and 6.1 per cent respectively.

In 2002 the 306 enterprises in research and development had a total turnover of NOK 5.3 billion and employed 7 302 persons. This is an increase from 2001 of 6.9 and 7.5 per cent respectively.

Lower turnover in investigation and security activities

"Other business activities" contain several different industry groups. 38 188 enterprises within other business activities had a total turnover of NOK 121.8 billion and employed 157 793 persons in 2002.

In the industry group investigation and security activities the turnover was NOK 3.1 billion in 2002, a decrease of NOK 356 million from 2001. The 248 enterprises in this subclass employed 8 174 persons in 2002, down 609 people.

Please note that the figures for the industry "other business activities" are not directly comparable to previously published figures due to change of industry group for some enterprises.

Preliminary figures

Preliminary figures for structural statistics are published only on enterprise level. Figures for enterprises will generally show other values than the figures for local kind-of-activity units. The reason is that an enterprise that is registered with its main activity in one industry may have local kind-of-activity units with activity in other industries.

Only figures for number of enterprises, employees and turnover on a 3-digit industrial level are published. Data are not as thoroughly revised, as they will be at the publishing of final figures in June 2004.

Tables:

• Table 1 Principal figures for enterprises, by industry group. Final figures 2001 and preliminary figures 2002