Statistics Norway

Entrepreneurs in business enterprise sector

2 Entrepreneurs in personal owned enterprises1, by education, age, national background and gender. 2010
  Sole proprietorship Other personal owned enterprises5
  Gender Gender
  Entrepreneurs, total Per cent women Per cent men Entrepreneurs, total Per cent women Per cent men
Level of education            
Total 28 113  100.0  100.0 3 556  100.0  100.0
Lower secondary education 4 851 12.3 20.0  600 13.4 18.0
Upper secondary education 9 376 29.0 35.8 1 467 31.4 44.4
Tertiary education, short2 6 524 32.8 17.9  813 32.5 19.8
Tertiary education, long3 2 850 12.5 8.8  370 13.8 9.3
Other4 4 512 13.5 17.5  306 8.9 8.5
             
Age groups            
Total 28 113  100.0  100.0 3 556  100.0  100.0
16-24 years 4 407 13.2 17.0  445 7.6 14.1
25-44 years 17 109 64.7 58.7 2 193 62.7 61.3
45-66 years 6 113 21.3 22.0  872 28.4 23.3
65 years and older  484 0.8 2.2 46 1.3 1.3
             
National background            
Total 28 113  100.0  100.0 3 556  100.0  100.0
Norway 21 316 79.1 74.0 2 945 81.8 83.1
EU/EEA, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand 2 701 9.5 9.7  204 7.6 5.1
Asia, Africa, Latin America, Oceania except Australia and New Zealand, and Europe except EU/EEA 2 724 8.8 10.2  316 8.2 9.1
Living outside of Norway 1 372 2.6 6.1 91 2.3 2.6
1  Enterprises that only have juristic persons (enterprises) as actors, or no registered information about actors are not included in statistics.
2  Tertiary education, short, comprises higher education 4 years or shorter.
3  Tertiary education, long, comprises higher education more than 4 years.
4  Other include persons with no completed education and those who haven't registred any information about education.
5  Other personal owned enterprises refers to the organisational structures general partnership and general partnership with shared liability.

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