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Statistics Norway has a long tradition of conducting “Level of Living”-surveys, and the surveys elucidate the living condition components like the economy, housing conditions, leisure activities, social networks, exposedness and fear of crime, health, education, care, employment and working conditions. The Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) is a European sampling survey concerning income, social inclusiveness and living conditions that is coordinated though the EUs statistical organ, Eurostat, and rooted in the European Statistical System (ESS). The primary purpose of EU-SILC is to produce a data foundation for the EUs indicators for welfare and social inclusiveness. The living condition survey EU-SILC will, jointly with the surveys on working conditions and data on health, care and social contact from the European Health Interview Survey (EHIS), cover all of the mentioned components of level of living surveys over a three-year period. The theme of the 2015 EU-SILC survey on living conditions was housing, exposedness and fear of crime, material shortages, and social and cultural participation.