Industry statistics for Svalbard

Establishment

The Standard Industrial Classification (SN07) defines an establishment as a locally defined functional unit whose main activities fall within a specific industrial classification. The activity carried out by a legal entity (enterprise) is known as an establishment. A legal entity can engage in one or more establishments/businesses.

Number of man-hours worked

This is defined as the total number of hours worked by employees in a workplace, both within and outside normal working hours. Short breaks are included, but time spent in transit between home and the workplace is not included. Number of man-hours in a year is 1687 hours

Hours worked by seasonal workers counts as long as worker is employed directly by establisment, it means not by employment tempt agency.

Employment

Employment is defined as the total number of owners and employees. One person is only counted in his/her main job, the same person here can have more than one job.

Turnover

Turnover is defined as an enterprise's operating revenues minus government subsidies and gains on the sale of fixed assets. Special public duties related to the sale, and taxes and duties are included in the turnover, but VAT is not included.

Salary costs

Wages, holiday pay, fees, employer's national insurance contributions, pension costs subject to reporting and other personnel costs for work carried out on Svalbard. Salary costs do not include remuneration to owners of sole proprietorships or partnerships.

Public subsidies

Applies to allocations received for operations and investment from the government, the local government on Longyearbyen, and other public bodies (e.g. Innovation Norway). It is rapported separetly in its own field. It is not included in turnover.

Merchandise

Is defined as goods purchased during the year and and sold without further processing (with the exception of labeling and packaging).

Total purchase of goods and services

The total purchase of goods and services includes the value of all goods and services that are purchased during the course of the year for resale, for use in the enterprise’s own production process or for storage. The procurement of tangible fixed assets is not included in these figures.

Investments

Investments in assets with a lifetime of more than a year, including investments in new and used capital goods, and extensions, alterations, improvements and repairs that prolong the lifetime of the capital goods or increase their production capacity. Costs for design, transportation, installation and any special duties are also included.

Deductible VAT, financial expenses, tax benefits achieved (e.g. investments in more environmentally-friendly equipment) and fixed assets acquired through restructuring (e.g. mergers, takeovers, demergers, divisions) are not included.

Purchased goods are valued at cost price and self-produced goods are valued at production cost.

Public sector

The public sector can be divided into an public administration part and an public enterprise part. The public administration consists of the authorities and other companies that take care of a wide range of society's common tasks. Hospitals and schools are examples of institutions that are part of the public administration. The public enterprise part consists of market-based enterprises that are owned or otherwise controlled by the public sector. The public enterprises are companies such as water supply, sewerage, waste management og large companies where state owns more then half of the shares.

The industrial classification is in accordance with the Norwegian Standard Industrial Classification (SN2007) , used in Statistics Norway, which is based on the EU Standard NACE Rev. 2 and the United Nation’s International Standard Industrial Classification of all Economic Activities (ISIC), Rev. 4.