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The Report No. 23 to Stortinget (the Norwegian National Assembly) in 2004 focused specifically on the need for better statistics on rented residences. With this backdrop, the Rental Market Surveys were initiated. Statistics Norway conducts the surveys, which are commissioned by the Norwegian State Housing Bank and the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development. The first survey in this series was published in 2005. The Rental Market Survey 2006 is the second survey in the series. It aims to develop statistics in the rental prices for different types of residents in different parts of the country, in order to ensure knowledge on the rental market and the developments in this market. For the most part, the questions in the survey revolve around the type of residences the respondents live in, the size and quality of the residence and how much the respondents' pay for renting the residence.