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One in five entrepreneurs were immigrants
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Entrepreneurs in business enterprise sector, 2010-2011

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One in five entrepreneurs were immigrants

Twenty-one per cent of entrepreneurs in personally-owned enterprises in 2011 were immigrants or Norwegian-born to immigrant parents. Almost 35 per cent of entrepreneurs were women. Only 18.5 per cent of entrepreneurs in private and public limited companies were women.

There were 31 969 entrepreneurs in personally-owned enterprises in 2011. A total of 34.6 per cent of these were women, about the same share as the year before. By comparison, the share of female entrepreneurs in 2002 was 29 per cent. With regard to private and public limited companies established in 2011, men accounted for 81.5 per cent of the entrepreneurs in these enterprises.

More immigrants set up enterprises

Twenty-one per cent of entrepreneurs in personally-owned enterprises in 2011 were immigrants or Norwegian-born to immigrant parents. This share has increased sharply since 2002, when it was under 11 per cent. Within accommodation and food service activities, 56 per cent of the entrepreneurs had a non-Norwegian background. Another economic activity with a large share of immigrants (44.5 per cent) was transportation and storage.

Clear tendency in choice of industry

Male entrepreneurs dominated within most economic activities, also among entrepreneurs in private and public limited companies. Only within other service activities were the women in the majority, with 52 per cent. Other service activities mainly include hairdressing and other beauty treatment. With regard to entrepreneurs in personally-owned enterprises, women accounted for 62 and 70 per cent of the entrepreneurs within human health and social work activities and other service activities respectively.

Larger degree of survival among enterprises established by men

One out of four personally-owned enterprises established by men in 2005 survived the first five years. About one out of five enterprises with female entrepreneurs survived this five-year period. One out of three enterprises established by both men and women survived these five years, but these enterprises made up less than two per cent of all the new established enterprises in 2005.

Among the limited companies, there were only minor differences in the degree of survival among enterprises established by women and men, with 46 and 48 per cent of these enterprises surviving this period respectively.

An entrepreneur is defined as a person, an enterprise or a combination of different types of shareholders.

An enterprise can have one or more entrepreneurs. A limited company can have one or several shareholders. The entrepreneur may be the person who had the business idea, a shareholder, or the person who runs the enterprise.

The method aims to identify the shareholders in an enterprise who have a considerable share of the capital stock, or who have the role as either general manager or member of the board. If a new enterprise is owned by other enterprises and the other enterprises are owned solely by private individuals, the entrepreneur is identified among these individuals. If the other enterprises do not only have private individuals as shareholders, the entrepreneur will be among the enterprises that are shareholders in the new enterprise.

The entrepreneur in personally-owned companies: sole proprietorship, general partnership and general partnership with shared liability, is defined as the owner(s) of the enterprise at the time of set up.

Statistics Norway has published statistics on owners of personally-owned enterprises since 2004. Using the stock statistics we have identified the entrepreneur of private and public limited companies.

In 2010 and 2011, 11 617 and 12 890 private and public limited companies were set up in Norway respectively. The statistics comprise about 96 per cent of the new established enterprises in 2010 and 86 per cent of the new established enterprises in 2011.

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