Survey Conducted in Connection with the Labour Force Survey 1986: Unemployment.

It was in 1983 initiated a pilot project that was to test the possibility of building up a Norwegian General Social Survey, an omnibus survey for research purposes, where scientists can buy into with questions. With regard to coordination and utilization of technical and financial resources, NAVF's coordination committee for surveys was appointed in January 1983. The committee would be responsible for implementation of surveys in which different researchers could search space in a joint program. The survey in 1986 was conducted by Statistics Norway as a supplementary survey to the Labour Force Survey 2 quarter of 1986. Coordination Committee's purpose was to carry on the work effort as the first survey in 1984 represented. To avoid major theme variations between applications from different researchers, it was set up a framework for current issues. Common theme of the survey in 1986, unemployment and employment. In addition to data from the survey, it was an important goal to utilize data that were collected through the Labour Force Survey 1985 and the annual summary surveys Work 1984 Work 1985, because the sample was drawn from samples of these investigations. Altogether, this gives ample opportunity to analyze issues related to employment and unemployment over the period covered. For the survey was drawn from two samples, one of which consists of people with unemployment experience, it was all the people in 1985 is recorded in the LFS as workers. In total, this sample 628 people. The second sample is a random sample from the LFS Q1 1986, people who when interviewed 3 or 4 time. Overall, this amounted to 1527 people. 86 people joined in both groups, so that the total was 2069.

1983年，一项试点项目正式启动，旨在验证构建挪威综合社会调查（Norwegian General Social Survey）的可行性——这是一项面向科研用途的综合抽样调查，科研人员可出资定制专属问题模块。在技术与财力资源的协调统筹方面，NAVF于1983年1月设立了调查协调委员会，负责统筹开展联合调查项目，不同研究者可在此类项目中申报专属的问题板块。
该委员会的核心宗旨是延续1984年首项调查的工作方向。为避免不同研究者提交的申请在主题上出现过大偏差，委员会预先设定了当期调查的主题框架。1986年本次调查的核心主题为失业与就业。
1986年的本次调查由挪威统计局（Statistics Norway）承办，作为1986年第二季度劳动力调查（Labour Force Survey, LFS）的补充调查。除本次调查的原始数据外，项目的另一重要目标是复用1985年劳动力调查以及1984年、1985年年度就业汇总调查的采集数据——因本次调查的样本均取自上述两项调查的样本池，可为覆盖时段内与就业、失业相关的各类议题分析提供充足的数据支撑。
本次调查的样本分为两组：第一组为具备失业经历的人群，具体为1985年劳动力调查中登记为就业人员的所有个体，该组样本共计628人；第二组样本为1986年第一季度劳动力调查的随机抽样群体，即该调查中接受过3次或4次访谈的人员，该组样本共计1527人。其中有86人同时属于两组样本，因此最终总样本量为2069人。