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Most entrepreneurs are men
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Entrepreneurs in business enterprise sector, 2009-2010

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Most entrepreneurs are men

Most entrepreneurs in 2010 were men. Sixty-six per cent of the entrepreneurs in personally-owned enterprises and 82 per cent of the entrepreneurs in private and public enterprises were men. Almost 19 per cent of the entrepreneurs in personally-owned enterprises were immigrants or Norwegian-born to immigrant parents.

About 29 600 personally-owned enterprises were set up by 31 669 persons in 2010. A total of 65.7 per cent of the entrepreneurs were men. The share of male entrepreneurs has gradually declined since 2002, when over 71 per cent of the entrepreneurs were men.

With regard to private and public limited companies in 2010, men amounted to 82 per cent of the entrepreneurs in these enterprises. This share has been stable since 2004.

Clear tendency in choice of industry

Male entrepreneurs dominated within most economic activities. Within mining and quarrying and financial and insurance activities, over nine out of ten entrepreneurs of personally-owned enterprises and private and public limited companies were men.

Within other service activities, the female entrepreneurs accounted for 68 per cent of the entrepreneurs of personally-owned enterprises and 53.7 per cent of the entrepreneurs of private and public limited companies. Other service activities include, but are not limited to, activities of membership organisations, repair of personal and household goods and also washing and cleaning of textile and fur products and hairdressing and other beauty treatment.

Young and well educated entrepreneurs

Approximately 33 per cent of the entrepreneurs of personally-owned enterprises and 36 per cent of the entrepreneurs in private and public limited companies had higher education. Correspondingly, 28 per cent of the population over age 16 as a whole have tertiary education.1

Seventy-six per cent of the entrepreneurs of personally-owned enterprises and 56 per cent of the entrepreneurs in private and public limited companies were under 45 years of age.

More immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents among the entrepreneurs

From 2002 to 2010, the share of immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents among the entrepreneurs of personally-owned enterprises has increased from 11 to 18.7 per cent. Within accommodation and food service activities, immigrants are in the majority. Fifty-six per cent of the entrepreneurs in this economic activity did not have a Norwegian national background. One third of the entrepreneurs within construction were immigrants. Another economic activity with a large share of immigrants was transportation and storage, where 24 per cent of the entrepreneurs were immigrants.

1  Persons with unknown or no completed education are not included.

The entrepreneur can be a person, an enterprise or a combination of different types of shareholders.

An enterprise can have one or more entrepreneurs. A limited company can have one or several shareholders. The entrepreneur may be the person who had the business idea, a shareholder, or the person who runs the enterprise.

The method aims to identify the shareholders in an enterprise who have a considerable share of the capital stock, or who have the role of either general manager or member of the board. If a new enterprise is owned by other enterprises and the other enterprises are owned solely by private individuals, the entrepreneur is identified among these individuals. If the other enterprises do not only have private individuals as shareholders, the entrepreneur will be among the enterprises that are shareholders in the new enterprise.

The entrepreneur in personally-owned companies: sole proprietorship, general partnership and general partnership with shared liability, is defined as the owner(s) of the enterprise at the time of set-up.

Statistics Norway has published statistics on owners of personally-owned enterprises since 2004. Using the stock statistics, we have identified the entrepreneur of private and public limited companies.

In 2009, 10 352 private and public limited companies were set up in Norway. About 95 per cent of the enterprises are present in the stock statistics from 2009. In 2010, 11 617 private and public limited companies were set up in Norway, of which about 89 per cent are present in the preliminary figures in the stock statistics from 2010.

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