Entrepreneurs in business enterprise sector, 2019-2020

Personal owned enterprises, by owners age, education, national background and sex. New established enterprises.¹
	2020
	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	38 115	100.0	100.0	1 188	100.0	100.0

Age
16-24 years	5 969	16.1	15.0	254	24.2	14.1
25-44 years	21 070	53.3	58.4	600	48.0	57.2
45-66 years	9 598	25.6	24.5	306	25.6	26.3
67 years or older	1 476	1.3	2.1	28	2.3	2.4
Unknown age	2	0.0	2.1	0	0.0	0.0

Level of education
Primary and lower secondary education (level 1-2)	7 679	23.8	14.3	218	21.0	11.3
Upper secondary education (level 3-5)	11 928	35.0	25.3	456	11.5	30.3
Tertial education, 4 years or less (level 6)³	9 124	19.3	31.3	314	22.9	35.8
Tertial education, more than 4 years (level 7-8)⁴	5 130	10.9	17.6	156	11.6	17.1
Other	4 254	11.0	11.4	44	3.0	5.5

National background
Norway	25 983	68.6	67.5	980	83.4	80.1
EU/EEA, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand	4 128	9.8	12.5	51	3.5	6.4
Asia, Africa, Latin-Amerika, Oceania, except Australia and New Zealand and Europa except EU/EEA	6 399	17.1	16.3	141	11.8	11.9
Non-Norwegian citizen, living outside of Norway	1 605	4.5	3.7	16	1.3	1.5

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