Norway Yearbook - 2003

Recreational, cultural and sporting activities
272 Newspapers'
Daily newspapers by the number
of times issued per week
Includes newspapers which are members of the Norwegian Media Businesses Association. 2The number of newspapers in 2002. 3Not
including Saturday and Sunday issues. 4Not including Sunday issue.
Source: The Norwegian Media Businesses' Association. More information: http:/Awvw.nal.no/
273
Total2
Average net circulation. 1 000
1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002
6timesweekly 61 2170 2220 2222 2222 2294 2252 2187 2201
VG - Verdens Gang 371
3357
370 365
3374
376 388 391
Aftenposten, morning issue. . . 282 284 286 288 284 276 262 263
Dagbladet 209 2O6 205 206 207 193 194 i9i
Bergens Tidende 95 '95 494 494 495
92 92 91
Adresseavisen 91 92 94 89 90 89 86 87
Dagsavisen 43 42 41
444
40 38
435 434
Stavanger Aftenblad 72 72 72 73 73 73 72 71
Fdrelandsvennen 48 47 47 47 47 46 46 46
DrammensTidende 44 44 45 46 47 47 49 47
Sunnmørsposten 37 37 38 38 38 38 38 37
Haugesund Avis 37 38 38 38 38 38 37 33
Dagens Nringsliv 54 57 60 69 69 71 72 70
Nordlys 33 33 33 31 31 30 30 30
Other newspapers 48 754 816 799 794 861 845 786 810
2-5 times weekly 86 760 685 709 724 643 639 687 668
Onceaweek 5 23 40 37 29 28 21 23 21
Sunday issues 10 701 793 761 958 972 953 932 978
Type of activity
Participation in different kinds of cultural activities, by persons 9-79 years old.
2000. Per cent
Source: The Culture and Media Use Survey, Statistics Norway. More information: http:/Mww.ssb.no/english/subjects/07/
Total
Number of times during the last 12 months
0 1-2 3-9 10-
Visited cinema 100 35 22 27 15
Visited theatre, musical or revue 100 50 36 13 1
Visited opera or operetta 100 94 5 1 0
Visited ballet or dance performance 100 89 10 1 0
Visited concert with classical music, contemporary music,
church music or choir 100 63 24 11 2
Visited pop, jazz, song, folk music, brass band concert etc 100 61 25 11 4
Visited exhibition of pictorial art or handicrafts 100 56 28 13 3
Visited museum 100 55 33 11 2
Visited public library 100 47 16 20 16
Spectator at sports event 100 43 18 23 16
274 Public and school libraries. 2001
Libraries
Number
of libraries
Books,
volumes
Audio- Periodicals,
Expen- Persons Number
Loans, all
visual current diture, employed of manmedium
material titles1
acquisition per 31 Dec. years
Registered items 1 000
1 000 kroner j
.
Public libraries 974 20642 1 335 42 224 276 136 091 2753 1 871
School libraries at primary schools . . 2 971 8392 .. .. 4645
School libraries at secondary schools . 426 2 303 144 22 724 33 366 ..
1lncluding newspapers. 20f which 808 578 items are issued through the county libraries. 3The figures correspond to about 90 per cent of the
public school libraries. 4Books only. tlhree libraries have flot reported figures for 2001.
Source: Norwegian Directorate for Public Libraries, More information: http://ww.abm-utvikling.no/
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