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Table 3-1: Jobs, added value and branches of the creative industry in the Amsterdam metropolitanregionNumber of jobs(2007)Added value(EUR million)Number ofbranches (2007)Jobs per branch(2007)(2006)Arts 10,485 355 3,005 3.5Media and 12,815 563 3,579 3.6entertainmentCreative 11,182 321 3,930 2.8professionalservicesTotal creative 34,482 1,240 10,514 3.3industryTotal Amsterdam 491,778 31,474 72,413 6.8Source: O+S Amsterdam (2009), O+S Amsterdam (2008b)Compared to the creative industry, the ICT sector provides for even more employment (Table3-2). In 2008 a total of 41,887 people were working in the ICT sector, 9.7% of total employmentin Amsterdam. Moreover, 14% of all business branches in Amsterdam is in this sector. After thebooming second half of the 1990s, the growth rate in the ICT sector plummeted as the dotcombubble burst. Over the period 2004-07 employment growth was 7.4%. From 2008 to 2009,however, employment in the ICT sector expanded again, by almost 10%, more than in the threepreceding years combined.Table 3-2: Number of business branches and employment in the ICT sector in Amsterdam2004 2005 2006 2007 2008Number ofbranchesContent 5,105 5,208 5,347 5,483 5,995Services 2,676 2,664 2,831 2,901 3,249Hardware 286 302 340 331 331Total ICT 8,067 8,174 8,518 8,715 9,575sectorTotal 57,652 58,227 59,784 59,837 64,015AmsterdamNumber ofjobsContent 17,444 17,029 16,765 17,714 18,798Services 18,408 17,528 17,333 17,896 17,791Hardware 4,206 4,793 5,010 5,387 5,298Total ICT 40,058 39,350 39,108 40,997 41,887sectorTotal 410,264 410,338 414,386 423,241 432,338AmsterdamO+S Amsterdam (2008b), O+S Amsterdam (2008c)3.5.5.2 Trade and logisticsIn 2008 the trade and logistics cluster accounted for 16% of total employment in Amsterdam.Table 3-3 shows how the number of jobs in this sector have developed over the last couple of67