Supervisory Arrangements, Employment and Use of Cash Benefits in Families, spring 1999, household file

The survey on Supervisory Arrangements, Employment and Use of Cash Benefits in Families is carried out on behalf of the Ministry of Children and Equality (BFD). The background for this survey is the Norwegian Parliament's decision to introduce a cash benefit arrangement in the fall of 1997. Statistics Norway (SSB) carried out a survey on behalf of BFD in the spring of 1998 in order to study the situation for families before the cash benefit arrangement was introduced, and this existing survey follows up the survey from 1998 by mapping out the situation for families briefly after the arrangement has been introduced. The goal is to map out the situation for families concerning such issues as child care, employment and economy, as well as examining what effects cash benefits have on families with small children. The scope of the survey in 1999 is somewhat larger than in 1998. This data documentation applies to the household file.