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Find research data

Sikt has extensive collections with data about people and society. Some data collections are documented in English, while others are only documented in Norwegian.

Please contact us if you need help to find what you are looking for.

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Data Collections

European Social Survey (ESS)

A cross-national survey using high methodological standards to provide freely available data for 40 European countries. Sikt is data archive for the ESS survey.

Norwegian Survey Data

Data from Norwegian researchers, Statistics Norway and other research institutions. Top level documentation is avaliable in English.

CESSDA Data Catalogue

The data catalogue of the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives, contains descriptions of the more than 40 000 data collections of their Service Providers, among them Sikt.

NorLAG (in Norwegian)

NorLAG is a life course study where we follow the same people, born between 1922 and 1966, over time. The study combines longitudinal survey and register data.

Microdata.no (in Norwegian)

microdata.no provides access to large amounts of detailed and linkable microdata without an application. The database contains data on all persons, families and households in Norway.

Forvaltningsdatabasen (in Norwegian)

This database contains surveys of the state's organization in ministries and administrative bodies in Norway after 1947. It provides an overview of the hierarchical structure and how this has changed over time.

Related products and services

Archiving research data

Sikt archives research data on people and society to make sure the data can be shared and is made available for reuse. We continuously enrich our data collections to provide a richer basis for research.

Data Protection Services

Sikt provides data protection services to 130 Norwegian research and education institutions. These include all Norwegian universities and most university colleges, as well as several research institutes, health trusts and competence centres.

Create a data management plan

There is a lot to think about when collecting data for a research project: data collection, storage and sharing with project participants.

Notification Form for personal data

Learn about what personal data is, who should send in a notification form, and what you need to have ready in advance.