World Value Survey 2008 - Norwegian Part

In 2008, Statistics Norway (SSB) conducted the sixth round of the World Values Survey/European Value Study (WVS/EVS) on behalf of NTNU Social Research AS, led by professor Ola Listhaug. WVS/EVS is an international research cooperation that maps attitudes and values through national sample surveys throughout the world (WVS), and in Europe (EVS). Topics that are covered in the survey are attitudes and values related to religion and spirituality, morality, familiy, politics and current societal issues. Since there is no use of registry links, the survey ends with some questions on education and work.

A nationally representative sample consisting of 2 000 respondents between the ages of 18 and 89 years was drawn from the population register, using Statistics Norway's sample plan. The discrepancies on different variables are relatively small and the net sample as a whole can therefore be said to be representative for the population.

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