Life course, Generation and Gender, LOGG, main file 2007/2008

The study on lifespan, generation and gender (LOGG) is an umbrella study for two surveys. One of the surveys is a larger survey that is a part of the UN's research program about generation and gender equality, Generations and Gender Probramme (GGP). The other survey is the Norwegian survey Lifespan, aging and generation (NorLAG). An important aim of the study on lifespan, generation and gender (LOGG) is to achieve better insight to the consequences of long term demographic changes.

Among the questions that the survey can contribute to answer are (Brunborg et. al., 2009):
- Is it possible to avoid further decline in the fertility rate and stimulate young people towards starting families, producing larger broods of children and thereby achieving a more balanced population development in the long term?
- How is it possible to counteract retirement rates and arrange for more durable including in the labor market?
- What meaning does life- and health habits have for health and assistance needed for the elderly?
- Which relationships contribute to movement and which relationships influence movement patterns?

Even though data gathering for LOGG to a large degree was carried through as a study it contains several possibilities. Information can be analyzed as a country wide representative sample in the age 18-79 years (LOGG/GGS). In addition, it is possible to filter data in connection to the original NorLag study in two ways. Either by studying the persons that are interviewed in LOGG, but at the same time are included in the second round of the NorLAG study, meaning a representative sample in the age 18-79 years in a sample of municipalities and districts in Norway. Or by studying the sample in NorLAG, meaning persons that were already drawn in 2002, and connect these to the LOGG survey - a representative sample in the age 40-85 years in a sample of municipalities and districts in Norway.

This is the main file and it contains data from the telephone interviews. There is also a supplementary file that contains data from the postal questionnaires.