Survey on the free HPV vaccine immunization program

Statistics Norway (SSB) conducted a survey in the autumn of 2019 on the free HPV vaccine immunization program. The survey was conducted in collaboration with the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI). The purpose of the survey was to obtain information about the reasons why young women chose or did not choose to make use of the free vaccine offer, to what extent the communication strategy and the measures that were put in place contributed to raising knowledge, attitude and/or behavior change, as well as whether there are differences based on education level, income, country of birth, marital status and number of children.

The survey population includes all women born in the period of 1991 to 1996 who are registered as residents in the National Population Register. The vaccine program ensured that these women, in the period 1st of September 2016 to 30th of June 2019, were offered a vaccine against human papillomavirus infection (HPV infection) to prevent cervical cancer. The data collection was carried out entirely on the web. The field period spanned two weeks, from 23rd of September to 7th of October 2019.