Travel Survey 2020, 2nd Quarter, Travel File

The Travel Survey is conducted four times a year, once every quarter. The main purpose of the survey is to register Norwegian citizens travel habits in Norway and abroad. In addition to data on Norwegian's travel habits, data is also collected about travels, border travels, use of tobacco and alcohol, wood burning, influenza vaccination and attitudes toward immigration.

This is the Travel File for the 2nd Quarter of the Travel Survey 2020.

For every quarter in 2020 a sample of 2 000 persons in the ages 16 to 79 were drawn. In the fourth quarter an additional sample of 1 000 persons were also drawn, and only asked about tobacco and alcohol. There is some variation in the response rate between the quarters, with 56 percent as the lowest in the fourth quarter, and almost 65 percent as the highest in the second quarter. If one look at all the quarters as one, and exclude the additional sample in the fourth quarter, the response rate totals to 59 percent. The most important reasons for non-reply in the Travel Survey 2020 is that we were unable to get in touch with the respondents and that some of them do not wish to participate. It is specially younger persons within the age group 25-44 ears, and people with lower or no education, that is the hardest group to get responses from for the survey.

The attached report examines if the non-reply has resulted in deviations from the original sample with regards to the markers age, gender, education, country background and region. We do find some deviation with regards to distribution of age. People in the age between 25-44 years is some less represented and people in the age 45-66 is more represented in the net sample compared to other age groups. The biggest deviation occurs when studying educational level and country background. People with high school or higher education is over represented in the net sample compared to people with lower education. The same applies to people with Norwegian country background compared to people with other country background.