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Statistics Norway has carried out its own surveys on Housing Conditions in 1967, 1973, 1981, 1988 and 1995. The purpose is to give a broad description of the living conditions in Norway, based on information about the size and standard of homes compared with household size, composition and attitudes. Other objectives were to collect data to evaluate the impact of changes in housing policy and the change in living conditions over time. Particularly important was to study the changes in the housing market after the great housing policy shift that began in Norway in 1982. Data on residential environment and housing standard already found in living condition surveys. From 1997, the collection of housing data fully integrated in the new system for the collection of living data. Principal is the Ministry of Local Goverment and Regional Development, data collected by Statistics Norway and analyzed largely by the Norwegian Building Research Institute. The survey is documented in two files, household and individual levels. Housing Conditions Survey is mainly a household survey, but also contains information about each person belonging to the household (this file). The individual file of the investigation contains a device for every person, regardless of age, with individual information about the person, and also all information about housing conditions, etc. for the household to which the person belongs.