Business activities, structural business statistics, 2006, preliminary figures

The number of persons employed in real estate activities increased by 8.3 per sent and passed 29 000 persons. The number of enterprises was 39 877.

Real estate enterprises with own property experienced the largest growth with 26.6 per sent. The total turnover was NOK 50.7 billion and the employment rose by 16.2 per sent to 6 198 persons.

Growth in labour recruitment and provision of personnel

Enterprises involved in labour recruitment and provision of personnel had an increase in turnover of 53.8 per cent to NOK 16.1 billion. The turnover has more than doubled since 2004. Employment increased by 21.5 per cent to 31 806 persons.

17.5 per cent growth for industrial cleaning

The industry group industrial cleaning experienced a growth in turnover of 17.5 per cent from 2005 to 2006. Employment increased by 6.0 per cent to 23 955 persons. The number of enterprises was 2 396.

Deviation between preliminary and final figures

Comparisons between preliminary and final figures in 2004 and 2005 show that the preliminary figures for number of enterprises within real estate, renting and business activities as a total were 0.1 and 3.0 per cent lower than the final figures. The preliminary figures for turnover were 0.3 and 0.9 per cent higher than the final figures. The preliminary employment figures were 0.0 and 0.4 per cent higher than the final figures

Preliminary figures

The preliminary figures for structural statistics are published on enterprise level only. In general, the figures for enterprises will show other values than the figures for local kind-of-activity units. This is due to the fact that an enterprise registered with its main activity in one industry may have local kind-of-activity units in other industries. Only figures for the number of enterprises, employees and turnover on a 3-digit industrial level are published. The data have not been as thoroughly revised as they will be at the publishing of the final figures in May 2008.

Tables:

• Table 1 Principal figures for enterprises, by industry group. Final figures 2004 and preliminary figures 2005