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The Twelve Step groups are the most available and widespread self-help groups for patients with alcohol or drug related disorders. In a public health perspective, self-help groups (SHGs) may be considered as a complementary form of care that could supplement professional help and provide aftercare once professional treatment has ended. There is a need to investigate if international findings and procedures concerning referrals from health services to Twelve Step Groups (TSGs) can be replicated...

During the 1960's the question of influencing people's smoking habits was treated several times in the Norwegian Parliament. Important documents for the justification of a more restrictive policy with respect to the marketing of tobacco products "Påvirkning av røykeadferd", The Norwegian Cancer Society 1967, where the proposal to build an administration that would take care of the work on smoking and health was raised. Report to the Storting nr. 62, 1968-1969, that proposed a ban on cigarette...

Labour Force Survey 2018, 2nd quarter. As of the 1st quarter of 1972, SSB has conducted official quarterly labour force surveys (AKU). These surveys aim to give the labour force authorities (and other people interested) knowledge of the occupational structure of the population and how it develops over time. The surveys are meant to give a foundation and statistical material for occupational prognoses and labour research. The samples in AKU are from 1992 representative at county level. In the...

The Families with Children Panel is a longitudinal survey created and administered by the City of Bergen that provides knowledge about the leisure activities of children and their parents. In 2019, all families with children (3-15 years old) registered as living in the municipality of Bergen were invited to participate, and around 20 percent of the families responded. The survey was repeated in 2020 and 2021 with the same respondents. In 2022, the survey was extended to the whole of Vestland...

Statistics Norway has carried out level of living surveys since 1973, and from 1996 surveys have been carried out annually. The Level of Living Survey on the topic of working conditions had previously been carried out in 1996, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2009, 2013, 2016 and 2019. The Level of Living Survey on Working Conditions aims to map different working environment conditions among employees in Norway. The survey now takes place every 3 years, and covers topics such as attachment to the workplace,...

"School election 2005, National study" is a national opinion poll (telephone interview) carried out by Opinion A/S on behalf of Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research (then Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD)). The questions included in the poll are the same as those asked to upper secondary school students in the 2005 school choice survey.

This data set is derived from the «The National Broadcasting System's User Survey, 1980, Form 7", conducted by Statistics Norway (SSB) on commission by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK). The survey from 1980 was a part of Statistics Norway's annual listener and viewer survey conducted for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. Several special surveys were conducted in the period 1978 to 1985, while surveys of a more general character only were conducted in 1980 and 1983. From 1985, a...

During the 1960's the question of influencing people's smoking habits was treated several times in the Norwegian Parliament. Important documents for the justification of a more restrictive policy with respect to the marketing of tobacco products "Påvirkning av røykeadferd", The Norwegian Cancer Society 1967, where the proposal to build an administration that would take care of the work on smoking and health was raised. The National Council on Tobacco and Health was created in 1971, and the same...

“Geofaredagen” is a meeting place for all who work with natural hazards, and will be organized as a national conference. The conference aims to reach current and future natural hazards researchers, trainers and others working with natural hazards. The conference is in Norwegian, but contributions in English are also accepted. NIFS Module is a continuation of the NIFS program (Nature Hazard - Infrastructure - Flood - Landslide) and participates in the Klima 2050 Partnership. The NIFS program has...

The purpose with the study was to map possible relations between different sides of the working conditions of teachers and experienced burdens of the teacher occupation. Information about the education situation, physical working environment, health in the broad sense of the word, measures of how much the teachers were burned-out and different background information was gathered. A postal questionnaire was made among a random selection of members of the union of education in the county Møre og...

The Local Election Survey 2011 is made on behalf of the Insitute for social research (ISF), Uni Rokkan Centre and the University of Oslo. Institute for social research had the project leader responsibility and Johannes Berg was the contact person and the project leader by ISF. The purpose with the survey was to map behaviour and attitudes to the local election in 2011 in special and local elections in general. A big part of the survey was a reiteration of previous surveys that have been...

Media Survey, 2014, journalists, is conducted in conjunction with the conference Nordic Media Festival held in Bergen in 2014. The study deals with media use and attitudes among journalists and the public. Media survey has been conducted annually since 1999.

The aim of this research project is to gain new knowledge on how the pension reform will affect individual decisons on retirement by conducting a survey experiment where respondents are randomized into groups which are given different information on the new pension system. This research design makes it possible to evaluate how information and framing of information can affect individual choices regarding retirement and perceptions of the pension reform. The project is organized along two main...

Statistics Norway conducted comprehensive Income and Property Surveys in 1958, 1962, 1967, 1970, 1973, 1976, 1979, and 1982. From 1984, Statistics Norway switched to a system of annual surveys. This change mainly affected the sample size and sampling issues, with little impact on the type of information collected. The information is largely determined by what is available in public tax data. The Income and Wealth Surveys are not considered regular sample surveys; they are based on samples drawn...

The media use survey is based on the populations use of, and access to, Norwegian and foreign media. Results from the survey are presented in the Norwegian media barometer report series. The survey was first conducted in 1991 and has since been carried out annually with gradual changes to the questionnaire to reflect the populations media habits. For the survey in 2022, the questionnaire was revised and restructured. Until 2021, the survey population was a representative sample of the Norwegian...

The purpose of the survey "Relationship between parents' nutritional knowledge, feeding practices and children's food intake. A survey in the Gardermoen region, 2019" has been to (1) map and describe children's food intake (vegetables, fruit and berries, fish and added sugar in food and drink) , parents 'nutritional knowledge and parents' practices regarding food and drink for their children (feeding practice). Furthermore, the aim was to (2) investigate differences in the children's food...

The purpose of the rent statistics is to determine the rental value of the leased properties in Norway stratified on various segments of the rental market. The Rental Market Survey originates in an external assignment and in the need for better and more detailed rent statistics on the rental market (Report No. 23, 2003-2004). The Rental Market Survey was conducted for the first time in 2005, see Report 2005/32, and further established as an official statistic in 2006. The Rental Market Survey is...

The aim of the project was to describe the crisis context that children's situation during residence at a crisis center has to be related to, as well as the residence conditions that the centers offer to children. Further on, one has attempted to illuminate the potential that crisis centers represent as a real service for children who accompany their mothers at these centers. The project consists of an interview survey of 287 women with children at crisis centers, as well as a description of the...

This project offers comparative knowledge on how, why and when popular attitudes towards the out-group population translate into party political preferences in countries that share very similar socio-political attributes; hence, the Nordic countries. The Nordic countries seem to constitute a fruitful design so as to move beyond demand side explanations and to acknowledge supply-oriented explanations for the varying electoral fortunes of the four nationalist-populist parties. This project...

Labour Force Survey 2. quarter 2010 - 1. quarter 2012, panel As of the 1st quarter of 1972, SSB has conducted official quarterly labour force surveys (AKU). These surveys aim to give the labour force authorities (and other people interested) knowledge of the occupational structure of the population and how it develops over time. The surveys are meant to give a foundation and statistical material for occupational prognoses and labour research. The samples in AKU are from 1992 representative at...

Survey of patients visiting homeopaths in Norway is intended to describe patients who attend Norwegian homeopaths, examining patient reported efficacy of treatment by a homeopath after six months, and describing homeopaths and their practices. 37% of Norway's population had in 1997 been to a homeopath at some point or another. Yet little is known about patient experiences. The sample was drawn out by members of the Norwegian Homeopaths Association, which recruited patients on request by the...

The evolution of threespine sticklebacks in freshwater lakes constitutes a well-studied example of a phenotypic radiation that has produced numerous instances of parallel evolution, but the exact selective agents that drive these changes are not yet fully understood. This project aims to study the adaptive diversification in the polymorphic/euryhaline threespine stickleback at genomic and phenotypic scales during colonization from the ocean to freshwater. Four lateral plate morphs were found,...

The "National Travel Survey 1991-92" is the second survey of this series that were conducted in Norway. The preceding survey was conducted in 1985. The travel survey deals with all types of personal travels: Both daily, shorter travels and longer travels that happen more rarely. Also, use of all sorts of transportation, including walking, are touched upon. The objective is to examine the populations travel activity and travelling pattern. The survey shall, amongst other things, give information...

The Norwegian National Travel Survey 2009 (RVU 2009) is the sixth national survey of travel behaviour conducted in Norway. The first was done in 1985, the next four in 1992, 1998, 2001 and 2005. The Norwegian National Travel Surveys cover personal travel of all types, including short trips taken on a daily basis and longer journeys undertaken less frequently, as well as all modes of transport, including walking. The purpose of the Norwegian National Travel Surveys is to obtain information on...

Labour Force Survey 2014, 1st quarter. As of the 1st quarter of 1972, SSB has conducted official quarterly labour force surveys (AKU). These surveys aim to give the labour force authorities (and other people interested) knowledge of the occupational structure of the population and how it develops over time. The surveys are meant to give a foundation and statistical material for occupational prognoses and labour research. The samples in AKU are from 1992 representative at county level. In the...

SSB has conducted official quarterly labor force surveys (LFS) from Q1 1972. The survey aims to provide labor authorities and others familiar with the occupational structure of population and development over time. The surveys will provide the basis and statistical material for occupational forecasting and labor market research. In the LFS one respondent is interviewed for two consecutive quarters, then there's a break for two quarters and then the respondent is interviewed again for two...

The 2021 pre-survey was conducted by Oxford Research on behalf of Innovation Norway. Innovation Norway offers products and services aimed at developing rural areas, increasing innovation in businesses across the country, and promoting Norwegian industries and Norway as a travel destination. This survey is the first part of the customer impact survey and examines companies the year after they received grants or services from Innovation Norway. Four years later, the companies are reassessed in the...

Travel and Holiday Survey is a continuance of Statistics Norway's Omnibus Survey (1992-2004). Data has been gathered through four projects per year. The main goal of the survey is to map out Norwegians' travel habits, as well as to gather other official statistics. This means that the Travel and Holiday Survey also captures other themes than travel. You can see an overview of the various themes that are included in the first quarter below. - Vacation and travel with at least four overnight...

Time series based on the years 1993 to 2000. This is a time series put together at NSD in July and August 2011. It consists of an extract of the relevant background variables and variables tied to questions on immigraion, retrieved from the Omnibus surveys from Statistics Norway for the period in question. Some of the variables are not included in the entire series, but rather are removed between surveys or are added after the beginning. Only variables which can be found in at least for years or...

This dataset stems from the survey "Working Environment 2005: Work-Related Destructive Behaviour". The survey was conducted by Statistics Norway and commissioned by Department of Sociopsychology at the University of Bergen. The purpose of the survey is to map out the extent of bullying and destructive behaviour in Norwegian work situations. The origin, cause and consequences of bullying are important issues that the survey seek to elucidate. That is done by examining Norwegian employees'...