Entrepreneurs in business enterprise sector, 2018-2019

Personal owned enterprises, by owners age, education, national background and sex. New established enterprises.¹
	2019
	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	38 495	100.0	100.0	1 101	100.0	100.0

Age
16-24 years	6 221	17.1	14.7	167	17.0	10.5
25-44 years	21 139	52.5	58.6	588	54.6	50.3
45-66 years	9 664	25.5	24.5	311	24.8	36.9
67 years or older	1 467	1.4	2.2	35	3.6	2.2
Unknown age	4	0.0	2.2	0	0.0	0.0

Level of education
Primary and lower secondary education (level 1-2)	7 289	22.2	13.9	218	22.0	14.3
Upper secondary education (level 3-5)	11 813	34.7	24.6	356	10.7	26.8
Tertial education, 4 years or less (level 6)³	9 195	19.1	31.3	306	26.4	31.2
Tertial education, more than 4 years (level 7-8)⁴	5 088	10.8	17.0	161	11.6	22.3
Other	5 110	13.3	13.2	60	5.5	5.4

National background
Norway	27 102	71.0	69.6	902	83.0	79.3
EU/EEA, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand	4 010	9.5	11.8	58	4.8	6.4
Asia, Africa, Latin-Amerika, Oceania, except Australia and New Zealand and Europa except EU/EEA	5 756	14.9	15.0	129	11.6	12.1
Non-Norwegian citizen, living outside of Norway	1 627	4.6	3.6	12	0.6	2.2

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