Time use survey for academic staff in Norwegian higher education institutions

Research and experimental development (R&D) comprise creative and systematic work undertaken in order to increase the stock of knowledge and to devise new applications of available knowledge.

R&D includes both basic research, applied research and development. Five criteria must be met for the activity to classify an activity as R&D. It must contain something new, be creative, have uncertainty related to the result, be systematic and be transferable and/or reproducible.

For an activity to be considered research and development, it is important that the purpose of the activity is R&D, and that it meets the five R&D criteria mentioned above.

The survey covers the academic year 2024–2025 (August 2024 to June 2025).

We ask about:

• Weekly working hours
• Proportion of working hours spent on different time-use categories. For R&D activity, the intention of the activity must be directed towards R&D
• The number of MA students and PhD candidates that you are supervising
• Supervision related to your own R&D activities
• Background information

You have received this survey because you are listed in Statistics Norway’s Research Personnel register. The survey is sent to those who had an academic position at a Norwegian higher education institution as of 01.10.2024.

We have obtained your contact information from the Contact and Reservation Register (KRR), based on the e-Government Regulations §29. Statistics Norway is a government sector organisation with surveys as part of its social mission and can therefore use KRR when sending out surveys.

Participation is voluntary.

Go to https://svare.ssb.no to complete the survey. You may be asked to log in through ID-porten.

Estimated time to complete the survey is 5 minutes

Statistics Norway will only use your answers to compile official statistics, and we will never inform anyone about what individual persons have replied in a survey. Anonymous data from the survey is also used for research and analysis by Statistics Norway and others.

You can contact us via e-mail or phone before August 31st 2025 to withdraw or ask for your responses to be deleted.

To keep the survey as short as possible, we use information about you from other registers at Statistics Norway. For you, this includes sex, age, education and affiliation from the statistics about research personnel, nationality and responsibility for children under the age of 16 from the Population Register, and information about your parent’s registered education from the National Education Database.

All information about you will be anonymized by October 31st 2029.

Statistics Norway processes all personal data in accordance with the Statistics Act and the Personal Data Act, and you can find more information at https://www.ssb.no/en/omssb/personvern