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National employment statistics

employment14 fields14 of these fields open in the demo
Source
SSB 13760 (Arbeidskraftundersøkelsen)
Geography
Nationwide
Reported stale after
400 days
Access
Requires an API key granted this section
Contract version
1
In packages
local_economy

What this does not say

Quoted verbatim from the section’s warnings field, exactly as the API returns it. They are not translated: a translation would show something other than what your response actually contains.

  • National figures from the labour-force survey. These are NOT this municipality's employment or unemployment, and nothing here describes the address, its neighbourhood or its residents. SSB publishes no municipality breakdown in this table; a local figure would need a different source.
  • A sample survey, seasonally adjusted, published monthly. Counts are converted from SSB's thousands to persons.

Fields

7 of 14 fields are value fields — the ones that decide whether a record actually says anything. The rest are context: identifiers, codes and timestamps. Fields marked “open” return values to anonymous callers; the rest require a key.

FieldTypeRoleDemo
table_idstring | nullcontextopen
region_codestring | nullcontextopen
region_namestring | nullcontextopen
industry_codestring | nullcontextopen
industry_namestring | nullcontextopen
time_periodstring | nullcontextopen
employed_personsinteger | nullvalueopen
unemployed_personsinteger | nullvalueopen
unemployment_ratenumber | nullvalueopen
employment_ratenumber | nullvalueopen
labor_force_participationnumber | nullvalueopen
average_hours_workednumber | nullvalueopen
average_wagenumber | null (NOK)valueopen
updated_atstring | nullcontextopen

Fetch this section

curl -H "X-API-Key: $APPROACH_API_KEY" \
  "https://api.approach.no/api/v1/addresses/285717643?include=employment"

# paginated, one section at a time
curl -H "X-API-Key: $APPROACH_API_KEY" \
  "https://api.approach.no/api/v1/addresses/285717643/sections/employment?limit=25"

Try it now

This is a real call against the public demo, from here. What appears below is what the API returned — not a sample.