Statistics Norway

Norwegian business enterprise sector, ownership and roles

3 Newly established personal owned enterprises 1, 2 in 2002 survived in 2005 by growth in employment and turnover, and the owners gender, age, national background and level of education
  Number of enterprises Number of enterprises with growth/no growth in employment Share of enterprises with growth/no growth in employment Number of enterprises with growth/no growth in turnover Share of enterprises with growth/no growth in turnover
  Growth No growth Growth No growth Growth No growth Growth No growth
Gender                  
Women 2 533  985 1 548 38.9 61.1 1 665  868 65.7 34.3
Men 7 198 2 693 4 505 37.4 62.6 5 455 1 743 75.8 24.2
                   
Age groups                  
16-24 years  834  369  465 55.8 44.2  684  150 82.0 18.0
25-34 years 3 420 1 422 1 998 58.4 41.6 2 558  862 74.8 25.2
35-44 years 2 984 1 142 1 842 61.7 38.3 2 201  783 73.8 26.2
45-54 years 1 777  596 1 181 66.5 33.5 1 220  557 68.7 31.3
55-66 years  844  244  600 71.1 28.9  591  253 70.0 30.0
67 years and older  138 28  110 79.7 20.3 87 51 63.0 37.0
                   
National background                  
Norwegian national background 8 619 3 150 5 469 36.5 63.5 6 290 2 329 73.0 27.0
Western countries outside Norway  362  150  212 41.4 58.6  235  127 64.9 35.1
Non-western countries  604  315  289 52.2 47.8  486  118 80.5 19.5
Non-Norwegian citizen, living outside of Norway 40 21 19 52.5 47.5 27 13 67.5 32.5
                   
Level of education                  
Lower secondary education  775  317  458 40.9 59.1  624  151 80.5 19.5
Upper secondary education 5 393 2 060 3 333 38.2 61.8 4 256 1 137 78.9 21.1
Tertiary education, short 2 221  780 1 441 35.1 64.9 1 493  728 67.2 32.8
Tertiary education, long 1 131  394  737 34.8 65.2  622  509 55.0 45.0
Other  364  186  178 51.1 48.9  262  102 72.0 28.0
1  Personal owned enterprises are sole proprietorships, general partnerships and general partnerships with shared liability.
2  Enterprises that only have juridical persons (enterprises) as actors, or no registered information about actors are not included in the statistics.

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