The Norwegian Citizen Panel

The Norwegian Citizen Panel, Norsk medborgerpanel, was established in 2013, as a collaboration among The Department of Comparative Politics, The Department of Government, The Department of Information Science and Media Studies and The Department of Sociology, all at the Social Science Faculty at the University of Bergen, together with NORCE. From 2016 to 2020 DIGSSCORE and the Norwegian Citizen Panel were largely financed by the Trond Mohn Foundation together with the University of Bergen, while from 2021 the University of Bergen finances the Citizen Panel, along with the different research projects collecting data in the NCP.

The Norwegian Citizen Panel cooperates with Ideas2Evidence in regards to the operation of the survey. Ideas2Evidence is responsible for the implementation of the recruitment of participants, coding the survey and fielding it. The panel is also followed up by internal support functions of the University of Bergen, mainly at DIGSSCORE.

The Norwegian Citizen Panel is a research-purpose internet panel with over 10,000 active participants. It is based on a probability sample of the general Norwegian population above the age of 18 drawn from the Norwegian National Registry. Panel members complete an online questionnaire three times a year of 15 minutes each.

You can find and download data from Surveybanken at Sikt. For access to longitudinal or text data, you will however need to use SAFE, the secure platform for research data and e-infrastructure at the University of Bergen. To apply for access to this, please contact digsscore@uib.no, and provide details about the intended use of the data.

Links to more information on methodology, citing, research and more are found in the text box to the right.

Press here to go to the Norwegian language page with more information about the Norwegian Citizen Panel, aimed at the public.