The Organizational Archive 1964

In 1964, a systematic collection of data on Norwegian organizations was carried out for the first time. Using questionnaires, information was collected about all nationwide organizations. Jorolv Moren, who at the time was affiliated with the Chr. Michelsen Institute, was responsible for the work, and he was also responsible for an update of the material in 1967. The work was concentrated on voluntary, nationwide organizations. Membership in an organization should therefore not be geographically limited, but one will of course find organizations with clear geographical centers of gravity, such as The fishermen's sales team. Interest organizations are included in the archive, while organizations created by the public sector for the sake of legislation are generally excluded. It was also initially planned that only "non-profit" organizations should be included. In 1964, information was collected about 1159 organizations, the material was published in the "Lookup book Norwegian organizations" (Tanum, 1966)