Rental market survey 2018

Statistics Norway carries out the rental market survey every year in order to prepare statistics on rental prices for different types of housing in different parts of the country.

The survey is called Housing and Living Conditions (BOB) when we contact tenants. The name Housing and housing conditions are used to simplify the communication about the survey as tenants must report on their own housing and not on the rental market in general.

The population in BOB is all rental housing resident of private households in Norway. Since there is no complete register of rental housing, one must use a combination of various central administrative registers in Statistics Norway as a basis for establishing a sample framework with the largest possible proportion of rental housing. The sample in 2018 was established by drawing 37,000 addresses from the established drawing frame of assumed rental housing. The selection unit is the address of the assumed rental property, and the response unit is the person who lives at the address.

BOB is carried out as a pure web survey. The survey was conducted in 2018 over three weeks, starting on October 1.