Entrepreneurs in business enterprise sector, 2011-2012

Personal owned enterprises, by owners age, education, national background and sex. New established enterprises.¹
	2012
	Sole proprietorship			Other personal owned enterprises²
	Actors total	Share of men	Share of women	Actors total	Share of men	Share of women
¹Enterprises with only enterprises as owners, and enterprises with no information about owners, are not indluded in this statistics.
²Other personal owned enterprises refers to the organisational structures general partnership and general partnership with shared liability and
³Tertiary education, short, comprises higher education 4 years or shorter
⁴Tertiary education, long, comprises higher education more that 4 years
Total	28 562	100.0	100.0	1 837	100.0	100.0

Age
16-24 years	4 928	17.6	16.6	337	20.7	11.3
25-44 years	17 010	57.9	62.4	1 051	56.9	58.3
45-66 years	5 989	21.6	19.9	410	20.0	29.1
67 years or older	635	0.6	1.1	39	2.4	1.3
Unknown age	0	0.0	1.1	0	0.0	0.0

Level of education
Primary and lower secondary education (level 1-2)	5 172	20.7	13.6	348	20.5	14.3
Upper secondary education (level 3-5)	9 622	35.9	29.8	671	9.1	27.2
Tertial education, 4 years or less (level 6)³	6 718	18.5	32.2	477	22.4	36.5
Tertial education, more than 4 years (level 7-8)⁴	3 178	9.6	13.9	206	10.0	14.8
Other	3 872	15.3	10.5	135	7.4	7.2

National background
Norway	20 824	70.9	76.4	1 478	81.6	77.2
EU/EEA, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand	3 099	11.1	10.5	135	7.2	7.8
Asia, Africa, Latin-Amerika, Oceania, except Australia and New Zealand and Europa except EU/EEA	2 895	10.5	9.5	183	9.2	12.4
Non-Norwegian citizen, living outside of Norway	1 744	7.5	3.7	41	2.1	2.6

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