Multiple waves: Norwegian Citizen Panel

Often, when using the Norwegian Citizen Panel, you use more than one wave. It is then best if you still refer to all the different waves you used, and their methodology reports. You find citing info on this page.

For the text we wish for you to include, this is the suggestion when you use multiple waves:

“This paper uses data from the Norwegian Citizen Panel wave XX - XX (Ivarsflaten et al., year - year). The Norwegian Citizen Panel was financed by the University of Bergen (UiB) and Trond Mohn Foundation (TMS). Data collection was coordinated by UiB, implemented by Ideas2Evidence, and distributed by Sikt and UiB."
TMS financed parts of the NCP from 2016-2020, so if you use data from wave 8 - wave 20, they should be included.

If you find citing all the waves individually impossible, and you need to gather more waves in one citation, you could cite as below. However, this does not give DOIs to the different datasets, and lack information that could be useful. So it would be best to cite all datasets individually.

Citation of methodology report for multiple waves:

Skjervheim, Ø. et al. (year - year). Norwegian Citizen Panel methodology report, wave XX - XX [Produced by Ideas2Evidence].

Citation of data from multiple waves:

If data is downloaded from Sikt (NSD): 
Ivarsflaten, E. et al. wave XX - XX [Dataset], year XX - XX. Data available from Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research.

If your data was distributed by DIGSSCORE: 
Ivarsflaten, E. et al. wave XX - XX [Dataset], year XX - XX. Data available from DIGSSCORE, UiB.

However, in preferred citations, all of this is listed:

• All author names in the codebook, except the producers
• (Year) no. 1 is the year from the codebook – use the year from the codebook belonging to the dataset you used
• Version, “v100”, is the version listed in your codebook
• (Year) no. 2, is the field period listed in the codebook
• Remember to check the year, version, and DOI against the dataset you used (you will find this in your codebook and on Sikt's web pages)
  • The Norwegian Citizen Panel at Sikt
• If you wish to cite the codebooks, use the same setup as for the dataset, but with [Codebook] rather than [Dataset].