OASIS - Old Age and Autonomy: The Role of Service Systems and Intergenerational Family Solidarity, 2000

The dataset is derived from the Norwegian part of the international project OASIS (Old age and autonomy - the role of services systems and intergenerational family solidarity). It was conducted by NOVA, financed by EU and the Research Council of Norway. The project was a collaboration between five countries and many scientists. NOVA's partners were Haifa University and ESHEL, Israel; Deutsches Zentrum für Altersfragen, Berlin, Tyskland; Universidad del País Vasco, Bilbao, Spania; and University of Keele, England. Prohject coordinator was professor Ariela Lowenstein, Haifa University.

The main theme of the survey was the family's role in the welfare state. The five countries that were included in the survey all have different family cultures and welfare politics. A random sample of the population in the big cities from 25 years and older were interviewed, about 1200 in each country. In Norway, the sample was drawn from Oslo, Bergen and Trondheim.