New detached houses: It may happen that the respondent misunderstands one or more of the questions on the form. The forms are read optically with automatic verification and transfer to electronic storage. Errors can occur during the optical scanning, particularly when reading figures consisting of many digits. Machine controls ensure, however, correspondence between partial costs and total costs, and that detached houses with very high or low square metre prices are not included in the calculation of square meter prices.

Used detached houses

None.

New detached houses

Non-response will always be a factor in form-based surveys, such as this. This is due to respondents that either do not return the forms or return them filled out incompletely. Response rate at the expiration of the deadline is about 45 per cent. Following reminders it climbs to 75 per cent. Data from the form are used as long as key variables are given.

Used detached houses

The statistics are based on data from FINN.no, and cover a majority of all used dwellings sold in Norway. Nonetheless it is possible that there is systematic sample skewness with regard to geography and/or building types.

New detached houses

The population is all detached houses completed during the year. The numbers have no sample variance or sample skewness.

Local authorities have the responsibility for updating the cadastre. The registering can be insufficient and of bad quality. Buildings may be incorrectly classified, i.e. that a detached house has been given another type of building classification in the register. It is also possible that other types of buildings are incorrectly classified as detached houses. The respondent will usually give notice in these cases. Furthermore, due to registration delays in the cadastre, not all detached houses registered as completed during the quarter in question will actually be completed during the quarter. Detached houses that are not actually completed during the quarter in question or previous quarter are not included.

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