Business activities, structural business statistics, 2002

The division renting activities includes renting of machinery and equipment without operator and of personal and household goods. Within this division renting of automobiles and renting of other transport equipment were the groups with the highest growth in turnover from 2001 to 2002.

Accounting, book-keeping and auditing activities and tax consultancy: 5.1 per cent increase

The division other business activities contains several different industry classes. 39 450 local KAUs within this division had a total turnover of NOK 122 billion and employed 157 920 persons in 2002, while the total wage costs were NOK 47 billion.

Within the industry class accounting, book-keeping and auditing activities and tax consultancy the

5 180 local KAUs employed 18 620 persons, while the total turnover was NOK 11.4 billion. This is an increase from 2001 by 3.6 and 5.1 per cent respectively. The total wage costs increased by 4.5 per cent up to NOK 5.8 billion.

The industry group architectural and engineering activities and related technical consultancy experienced a decrease by 4.1 per cent in turnover, from NOK 38.6 billion in 2001 to NOK 37 billion in 2002. The employment among the 8 770 local KAUs were almost at the same level in 2002 as in 2001, while total wage costs increased by NOK 451 million, up 3.6 per cent to NOK 13 billion. Most of the decrease in turnover may be explained by the tough market situation for the KAUs in the industry subclass geological surveying. In this subclass the turnover declined from NOK 8.1 billion in 2001 to NOK 6.8 billion in 2002.

Rapid growth in number of local KAUs within real estate activities

In the division real estate activities 28 510 local KAUs had a total turnover of NOK 75.8 billion in 2002. The corresponding figure for 2001 was NOK 67.7 billion, which means the turnover increased by 12 per cent in 2002. The wage costs in the division increased as well, up 1.3 per cent to NOK 6.7 billion in 2002. 20 910 persons were employed within real estate activities.

NOK 6.2 billion in research and development turnover

The 348 local KAUs in research and development increased turnover by 1.4 per cent in 2002, up to NOK 6.2 billion. The division employed 8 390 persons in 2002 against 8 160 in 2001 - an increase of 2.8 per cent. Total wage costs were NOK 3.7 billion. The division comprises local KAUs that do research and development on natural sciences and engineering as well as on social sciences and humanities.

Local KAUs and enterprises

The structural statistics are published on both enterprise and local KAU level. The figures on the enterprise level may differ from those on local KAU level. This is due to some enterprises being registered in one industry group after main activity, while at the same time consisting of local KAUs in other groups. More about this and other definitions can be found in the "About the statistics".

Revision of industry codes

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

This has particularly affected the figures within business and management consultancy activities since many enterprises have been moved from the industry subclass other business activities n.e.c. to this class.

Tables:

• Table 1 Principal figures, by industry subclass. Local kind-of-acitivity units. 2001 and 2002
• Table 2 Principal figures, by number of persons employed and industry division. Local kind-of-activity units. 2002
• Table 3 Prinsipal figures, by region and industry group. Local KAUs. 2002
• Table 4 Principal figures by industry subclass. Enterprises. 2001 and 2002
• Table 5 Principal figures, by number of persons employed and industry division. Enterprises. 2002
• Table 6 Investments by group of fixed assets and industry subclass. Enterprises. 2002
• Table 7 Investments by category and industry subclass. Enterprises. 2002