Study title

Ungdata junior is a questionnaire-based mapping tool that is used by municipalities throughout the country, where the aim is to get an overview of how children in 5th-7th grade (10 to 12 years) are doing and what they are doing in their spare time. Since 2017, over 150,000 pupils have participated in Ungdata junior in a large part of all the country's municipalities. The goal of Ungdata junior is to obtain a knowledge base that can be used locally and nationally in public health work and in the work to develop a good upbringing policy. The results can give a clue as to which areas it may be worth working on. They can also be used to make children, young people and adults aware of how other children and young people feel and what they do in their free time. Ungdata junior is a free offer to municipalities and is a collaboration between the regional competence centers in the field of addiction (KORUS) and the Welfare Institute NOVA at OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University. KORUS is responsible for the practical implementation in the municipalities and follow-up of local results. The Ungdata secretary at NOVA coordinates and administers all the surveys. The Norwegian Directorate of Health finances Ungdata junior. In the period 2020-2022, Ungdata junior was carried out in 199 municipalities and on Svalbard, with an overall response rate of 83%. 102,851 pupils from these municipalities took part in the survey. This was a sufficient enough number of participating municipalities for national results to be presented for the first time. The data is only available for online analysis and can not be ordered.