Norwegian Election Study 1985

The Norwegian Election Research Programme was launched in the middle of the 1950's, under the direction of The Institute for Social Research. Henry Valen and Stein Rokkan were responsible for the programme. The programme co-operated with Norsk Gallup Institute A/S for sample survey collection in the election studies covering the Storting elections in 1957, 1965, 1969 and 1973. In these first studies interviews were carried out both before and after the elections. From 1977 the programme has co-operated with Statistics Norway (SSB) for the data collection in these studies. After 1977 interviewing has only been done after the elections. The 1985 election study was the seventh study to be carried out under this research programme. The election studies are intended to give statistical data for research covering elections and political processes in Norway. Since the start of the Norwegian Election Programme Professor Henry Valen has been the key administrator, but in 1985 Bernt Aardal took over as executive manager.