Norway: wholesale & retail trade employment 2021

The number of employees in the wholesale and retail trade industry incl. repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles in Norway saw no significant changes in 2021 in comparison to the previous year 2020 and remained at around 364774 employees.
The relationship of employer to employee exists when there is an agreement, which may be formal or informal, between an enterprise and a person, normally entered into voluntarily by both parties, whereby the person works for the enterprise in return for remuneration in cash or in kind.

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Total number of employees in the wholesale and retail trade including the repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles industry in Norway from 2012 to 2021

Characteristic	Number of employees
2021	364,774
2020	364,579
2019	382,233
2018b	384,858
2017	381,290
2016	374,914
2015	375,037
2014	358,373
2013	355,321
2012	353,591

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Release date

March 2024

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Norway

Survey time period

2012 to 2021

Supplementary notes

b: Break in time series.
The source adds the following information: Number of employees is defined as those persons who work for an employer and who have a contract of employment and receive compensation in the form of wages, salaries, fees, gratuities, piecework pay or remuneration in kind. A worker from an employment agency is considered to be an employee of that temporary employment agency and not of the unit (customer) in which they work.
Data coverage is for the code G of the CE_R2 of economic activities, which is wholesale and retail trade including the repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles.

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