Quality of Life Survey

We will ask you about:

• how satisfied you are with different aspects of your life
• self-perceived health and physical health problems
• feelings, thoughts, and attitudes
• social contact with family and friends
• work and the work environment
• housing and your local environment
• everyday life, leisure, and beliefs
• discrimination, sexual orientation, and ethnic or cultural background

It takes about 10–15 minutes to complete the survey, but the time may vary somewhat from person to person.

40 000 people aged 18 and over have been randomly selected from the National Population Register to participate in the survey.

We need answers from everyone who has been selected, and we cannot replace you with someone else if you choose not to participate. Participation is voluntary, but your response will help us produce the best possible statistics on quality of life in Norway.

If you have been selected to participate in the survey, you will be invited to participate by completing an online questionnaire.

You have received a letter in Altinn or by post, in addition to an SMS from Statistics Norway. In the letter in Altinn, you will find a link to the questionnaire you need to complete. In the letter sent by post, you can enter the link into a web browser to access the questionnaire. You will be asked to log in through ID-porten.

You can also use the “Go to survey” button at this webpage to respond and log in through ID-porten.

You may choose to complete the survey in Bokmål, Nynorsk, English, Polish, Lithuanian, or Arabic.

It takes about 10–15 minutes to complete the survey, but the time may vary somewhat from person to person.

You can take a break whenever you like and continue later. Use the same link, and you will return to the questionnaire at the point where you left off.

It takes about 10–15 minutes to complete the survey, but the time may vary somewhat from person to person.

• We will only use your answers to produce official statistics. Individual answers will never be disclosed.
• Until the information you provide is included in a statistical material, you can contact us to withdraw from the survey and ask for your answers to be deleted. You can contact us via phone or e-mail.
• Your personal identification number and other directly identifiable information about you will be removed from the data material before the end of April 2027.
• An anonymised file with results from the survey will be made available to researchers via sikt.no after the statistics have been published on ssb.no.
• To keep the survey as short as possible, we collect information about you and your household from registers that Statistics Norway have access to. For you, this includes information about education from school owners and the State Educational Loan Fund, information about employment and occupation from The Norwegian Tax Administration and the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (Nav), information about immigration from the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration (UDI) and information on housing situation from registers over households and dwellings. For you and your household, we collect information from the Norwegian Population Register and information about income, debt, social security and benefits from The Norwegian Tax Administration and Nav and the Norwegian Debt Register.
• The survey is carried out in accordance with the Statistics Act and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). If you have further questions about GDPR, you can send an e-mail to personvernombud@ssb.no or you can read more on our information page about privacy.