cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1696-v1
title: An Investigation Into Technology Attitudes, 2000

description: The primary objective of the study was to investigate differences in attitudes towards technology amongst students at computer related studies. A sample of 199 students were drawn from three information studies at the university level, Informatics, Information Science and Humanistic Informatics, and asked to participate in the study. The inquiry concerned the following areas: Personal details, adaptability, self-esteem, work style, opinions about machines, understanding of computers, new technology based fear and stress, frequency of damaging mechanical and electrical devices, and family history as it relates to interactions with machines in early childhood. The data consists of two datasets: NSD1696-1 includes data from the first data collection, NSD1696-2 includes data from the second data collection.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1697-v1
title: How Accurate and Complete are the Contents of General Practitioners' Electronic Medical Record System? 2000

description: The background for "How Accurate and Complete are the Contents of General Practitioners' Electronic Medical Record System?, 2000" was the improvement potential the data material in electronic pasient journals (EPJs) had, in addition to research on epidemiology and further societal medicine. It was necessary to know more about the extents of the EPJ data, and how this data material could be compiled with what all involved agents knew about the patient. Therefore the project had several objectives: 1) To evaluate the completeness of the data material in EPJs. Was any data missing? 2) Evaluate the correctness of the data material in EPJs. Was the data correct? 3) Describe variations concerning eight frequent diagnosis, between medical offices. 4) Evaluate the practitioner's satisfaction with our feedback and software. 

We could by the use of a program called QTools extract fields from EPJs. To find out how extensive the EPJ was, we counted blank fields. To retrieve information concerning correctness, we used several methods. For example we tied together different EPJ fields, for example diagnosis and medication, to identify each patient with a particular medical condition. Short informal interviews with practitioners and employees gave us more information concerning the data of the practices. The data material in practitioners' EPJs were very extensive, except for some fields (for example smoking, habits and field of work), but to interpret the correctness, a great caution was needed. A large part of the EPJs could be used for quality improvement and research, but one would then have to analyze the data material in close cooperation with the practices.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1698-v2
title: Welfare Changes for the Mentally Handicapped Living at Home

description: The project objective was to investigate HVPU reform consequences for handicapped persons' living conditions. The project consisted of the registration of living conditions before and after the implementation of the reform. Personal interviews were conducted with persons close to former residents of institutions (HVPU Committee) in 1989 and 1994 and persons living at home in 1991 and 1994.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1699-v2
title: Alcohol and Sexuality in the Era of AIDS; A Cross-Cultural Nordic Study, 1997

description: In the Nordic countries, sexual culture has been characterized by explicit equality between the genders and different age groups. For most of the 20th century, these countries (with the exeption of Denmark) have also practiced restrictive alcohol policies. During the past decades, this changed. HIV/aids awareness has altered the preconditions of human sexuality, and patterns of alcohol consumption have changed partly owing to increased international contact. This study investigated the patterns of alcohol consumption and sexual conduct of urban people as cultural constructs. It also sought to illuminate how people in different social groups perceive, describe and evaluate their actions and experiences with alcohol in relation to sexual conduct, lifestyle and health. A qualitative subproject was also conducted, but is not a part of this dataset.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1700-v1
title: Product-related injuries: Epidemiology, Etiology and Preventive Measures, 1995

description: The purpose of "Product-related injuries: Epidemiology, Etiology and Preventive Measures, 1995" was to identify key factors that could be of importance on whether a product related accident would happen or not. A product related accident was characterised as an actitvity where a person was injured when a product was involved in the acitivity. The products that were part of the survey were skis and bicycles. Exposure to the product and experience with the use of the product were seen as important factors for if an accident was to happen. Age and sex were important variables as well. To find out if there was a connection between exposure, experience and being prone to accidents, a case-control investigation was made, based on post-enquete surveys, during the spring of 1995.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1701-v2
title: Trends in Semen Quality in a Population of Men in Couples With Infertility Problems, 1994

description: The primary objective of the research project was to analyze potential change in semen quality over time in groups with divergent levels of fertility, and to investigate reproduction outcomes amongst couples with problems of infertility. The data was gathered by routine semen analysis from 1976 to 1994.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1702-v1
title: Science, Technology and International Collaboration, 1999

description: This survey was set up and completed as a collaboration project between scientists at The School of Marine Affairs, The University of Washington, Fridtjof Nansen Institute and the University of Oslo, Department of Political Science. The project arouse from a common interest in more precise knowledge about why some international regimes “succeed” while others “fail”.  The study was based on two explanations. One of them seeks the answer in characteristics of the problem the regimes are going to solve. The other seeks the answer in characteristics of the institutions and systems that deals with the problem.  The assumption here is that some institutions and systems have a greater capacity than others to solve particular types of problems. The study then attempted to specify each of these theses in a set of more precise hypotheses, and tested this against the empirical material. The database provides information about fourteen international regimes and variance in regime effectiveness. The regimes included dealt with the following list of issue-areas: Satellite telecommunication, nuclear non-proliferation, dumping of low-level radioactive waste at sea, ship-generated oil pollution, marine pollution in the Northeast Atlantic: Oslo Dumping Convention, Marine Pollution in the Northeast Atlantic: The Paris Convention, Marine Pollution in the Mediterranean: The Barcelona Convention, Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP), Stratospheric ozone depletion, international trade in endangered species (CITES), International Whaling (IWC), high seas salmon fisheries in the North Pacific (INPFC), Antarctic resources (CCAMLR) and South Pacific tuna fisheries (FFA).
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1704-v1
title: Regional Innovation in a Network Economy, 1991

description: The project "Regional Innovation in a Network Economy, 1991" consisted of two parts; one theoretical part and one empirical part. The theoretical part (“Technological Development, Labour Division and Localization of Businesses. Perspectives for Regional Development”) carried out between 1985 and 1987, gave an overview over new contributions to localization theory and shifted the focus over to the complex labour division that finds place between businesses in different regions. The importance that new technology and the development of products have for the organization of production and degree of specialization was in particular focus. This technological development, as well as more intense international competition and development of new organizational structures, have contributed to the emergence of close bonds between businesses in more or less stable production networks. The project discussed the emergence of this network economy and what it meant for the regional development as a whole. The empirical part of the project (“Technological Proliferation in the Service of Regional Politics”) that took place between the years of 1988 to 1990, had the goal of analysing some of the assertions that were put forward in the theoretical part of the project. The focus of the analysis was especially directed towards the regional proliferation of process technology, what channels of information businesses used in the search for technological knowledge and to what degree businesses used public counselling and financing systems. The results showed no remarkable differences in the use of new technology between different regions in general. The results of a project like this cannot lay the groundwork for development of new policy, there is not enough knowledge for that. At the same time, the theoretical and empirical basis do imply that public efforts to a larger degree should be directed towards linking weak businesses with larger business networks and promote regional cooperation between businesses. It's important that such cooperation arrangements include strong businesses with high technological and market competence.  If regional counselling and research foundations are to increase their competence level, closer ties to national resource centres have to be formed.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1706-v1
title: Success Factors for New Products, 1991.

description: This project examines new products, and what determines whether they will be a success. The survey was conducted by the Norwegian Institute for Research in Marketing and funded by NORAS.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1707-v1
title: Pupil Absence in Secondary School, 1990.

description: This project aims to shed light on the causes of pupil absence in secondary schools. The project was initiated by the Ministry of Church and Education.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1708-v2
title: Local Involvement in Environmental Matters, 1998

description: This dataset is composed of two surveys that were conducted on local involvement in environmental issues in Skjåk municipality in respectively 1996 and 1998. The surveys were conducted in connection with the development of power plants in the area. The studies attempt to identify the population's attitudes to development as well as sense of belonging to the relevant natural areas. It also asked more general questions about the management of natural resources. The surveys are conducted by Odd Inge Vistad at the Eastern Norway Research Institute.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1710-v2
title: Culture as a Tourism Product - Diversity as a Challenge, 1996

description: Culture in one sense or another is usually included in the tourist profile in established communities / cities. Knowledge about which market segments for various types of cultural attractions appeal to and which experiences various groups of various tourist attractions, is an important prerequisite both for cultural work and in terms of marketing attractions as a tourist product. This study sheds light on how different types of cultural activities attract different social/cultural segments among tourists, how structural and organizational aspects of the tourists' travel affects the choice of tourist attractions and how tourists experience the various attractions.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1711-v1
title: High School and Students with Psychosocial Difficulties, 1993

description: The purpose of the project was to increase secondary school readiness for realizing the school's goals for students with psychosocial difficulties.The project included empirical investigation, networks, competence development program for network operators and local development at 8 high schools. The information for the empirical study was collected using questionnaires sent to teachers and students at eight high schools in three counties. The survey among students and teachers documented significant amounts of problematic behaviors in secondary schools. They also revealed that there are significant differences between students' and teachers' description of the situation.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1713-v2
title: The Organisational and Information and Communication aspect of the Governmental Information Policy, 1999

description: The purpose was to investigate how internal information and internal communication works in public administration.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1714-v1
title: Nature Information Centres - Tourist Attraction and Tools for Environmental Management, 1997

description: The purpose of this study was to compare two centres (and the visitors) that were connected to the same tourist attraction (Jostedalsbreen), to identify factors that are significant regarding the explanation of the difference in the number of visitors (success criteria). To do this, a survey was conducted during the summer months of 1996 and 1997, among visitors at Breheimsenteret in Jostedalen and Bremuséet in Fjærland.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1715-v1
title: Is Outdoor Life About to Change? 1999

description: The simple, close to nature outdoor life has for a long time been a widespread ideal, and is also the objective that the governmental outdoor life policies are based on. This was further emphasized with the last revision of the outdoor life law, when there was added an object clause in 1996 that states that the outdoor life have to be environment-friendly. The question is, however, if the outdoor life culture is about to change. This survey confirms earlier surveys that say that the outdoor life still is in a strong position among the population, both in terms of interest, actual practice and appreciation. This study shows, however, that the way outdoor life is practiced is changing. The simple and lesser organized outdoor life is in decline, whereas modern activities such as snowboarding, off-road cycling, and heli-skiing are increasing either as a part of peoples outdoor life practice or in their world of notion.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1716-v2
title: "Organic Consumers' Perceptions and Dietary Choices, 1997"

description: The purpose of the data collected in "Organic Consumers' Perceptions and Dietary Choices, 1997" was to examine consumers' motivation to choose organically produced food, and to look at the obstacles they encountered when they wanted to choose such food. The starting point of the study was the increase in organic farming in Norway - as elsewhere in Europe, and the new demands that this situation put the sales side in. What significance organic food had for consumers, the extent to which they got hold of the organic goods they wanted and how organic foods included in their dietary patterns were key issues in the survey. The survey touched on consumer knowledge and attitudes related to organic food, through a broad perspective of ethical, environmental and health considerations related to food. There were correlations between the choice of organic food and consumer orientation in the food market, perceptions of food quality, and their dietary patterns. Consumers who bought organic foods had to a greater extent a local orientation in the food market and put more emphasis on quality properties that cannot be determined through the senses in the purchasing situation, for example environmentally-friendly production methods, in addition to traditional quality characteristics such as appearance and taste. Several of the consumers who bought organic food emphasized more fruits and vegetables and less meat in their diets. Lack of information in general, little knowledge of the Ø-label, low availability and high cost were important barriers to buying organically produced food.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1717-v2
title: Increase of Owner-Tenant Flats in Three Norwegian Cities, 1988

description: The aim of this project was to study commonhold unit allocation in the big cities of Norway in light of market and housing policy conditions. The survey describes and explains the development of a new housing structure, the sector of freehold apartments, in the three largest cities. A questionnaire survey was conducted among the residents in addition to an overview of all allocated properties in Oslo, Bergen and Trondheim from 1962 to 1987/88.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1718-v2
title: Evaluation of National Insurance Advisory Scheme. Subproject 5: Careers of Those Whose Application of Support was Declined, 1994

description: This project is a part of the project “Evaluation of the Social Security System Counselling”. The aim of this project was to look at what happens next to those who get their application for disability pension declined, considering the main sources of livelihood.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1719-v1
title: Sexuality and Employment, 1990

description: The survey examines incidents of a sexual nature in the workplace. The survey was conducted by Karin Widerberg in 1990.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1720-v2
title: Interest, Knowledge, Opinion. A Sociological Analysis of People's Relationship to The Child Welfare Services of Norway, 1998

description: The purpose of this study was to determine whether people are interested in child welfare, what knowledge and opinions they have, and to what extent social background and individual resources affects these factors.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1722-v2
title: Car Use, Company Car Arrangements and Wage Systems, 1998

description: The project had four primary objectives. 1. Increase the knowledge concerning magnitude, distribution and nature of company car arrangements and corporate subsidies for employee car use, as well as decisions concerning these programs. 2. Analyse how company cars and car allowances are incorporated in the aggregated compensation of various employee groups. 3. Analyse how motorists will react to alterations in the framework concerning car use. 4. Suggest changes in the tax policies of the state concerning car allowances and the regulation of company cars with the aim of increased cohesion between the private costs and the societal costs of car use. One of the potential problems with current transportation policies is that some do not pay the societal costs of their own transportation choices. Thus, it is interesting to evaluate the magnitude and nature of programs that may contribute to the discrepancies between private- and societal costs, such as company car programs and car allowances. The study found that company car programs primarily benefit men. Like other benefits, company cars and car allowances are positively related to income and fortune. Car programs are utilized more frequently in urban areas. It was also discovered that employees with car programs drive more in their vocation and privately. Furthermore, ¼ of beneficiaries claimed they would drive less if they were taxed for private car use.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1722-v3
title: Car Use, Company Car Arrangements and Wage Systems, 1998

description: The project had four primary objectives. 1. Increase the knowledge concerning magnitude, distribution and nature of company car arrangements and corporate subsidies for employee car use, as well as decisions concerning these programs. 2. Analyse how company cars and car allowances are incorporated in the aggregated compensation of various employee groups. 3. Analyse how motorists will react to alterations in the framework concerning car use. 4. Suggest changes in the tax policies of the state concerning car allowances and the regulation of company cars with the aim of increased cohesion between the private costs and the societal costs of car use. One of the potential problems with current transportation policies is that some do not pay the societal costs of their own transportation choices. Thus, it is interesting to evaluate the magnitude and nature of programs that may contribute to the discrepancies between private- and societal costs, such as company car programs and car allowances. The study found that company car programs primarily benefit men. Like other benefits, company cars and car allowances are positively related to income and fortune. Car programs are utilized more frequently in urban areas. It was also discovered that employees with car programs drive more in their vocation and privately. Furthermore, ¼ of beneficiaries claimed they would drive less if they were taxed for private car use.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1723-v2
title: Changes in the Public Home Care Sector, 1994

description: The objective of the project was to research variation in the muncipal domestic care in diffrent muncipalities, and if develpment processes were of varying nature in different muncipalities. Information was gathered about the employees' workexperience, health problems, workload and work environment. Some of the questions asked in 1994 are not the same as those asked in 1989.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1724-v1
title: Historical Consciousness in Schools, 2001

description: This dataset is derived from the survey "Historical Consciousness in Schools." The project aims to investigate how secondary schools aims to expand historical awareness among the students. The surveys were conducted through qualitative interviews with six teachers, a survey with 21 teachers and observation of two lectures in the classroom. The data was collected in the period between spring 1999 and January 2001.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1726-v1
title: Long Term Effects Following High-Dose Therapy and Autologous Bone Marrow Transplantation in Lymphoma Patients, 1999

description: High-dose treatment with chemotherapy and whole body radiation causes well known side effects. The patients are followed up closely the first couple of years after treatment with late side effects of the treatment in mind, but the long term effects are little known. The purpose of this project was to examine the long term effects on the immune apparatus of lymph cancer patients that has gone through a high-dose treatment.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1727-v1
title: Students' Understanding and Use of Scientific Knowledge, 1997

description: The purpose of "Students' Understanding and Use of Scientific Knowledge, 1997" was to increase insight in students' use of scientific knowledge and information when facing controversies of a scientific dimension, as well as looking at students' evaluation of the reliability of different types of scientific information. 
The background for the project was the increase in emphasizing general education in schools' curriculums for science. There was also little knowledge on how students evaluated and made use of scientific information in their daily life. 
To gain more insight in the above-mentioned problems, 22 in-depth interviews were carried out with students attending upper secondary school, during the period of January to June 1997. 
The main findings in the project were related to different strategies for evaluation of trustworthiness of information, related to a special context in the form of the controversy related to the possible health risks of growing up close to high-tension wires. Another main finding was related to models for how different information and different values affected different students' stands in the same controversial case.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1728-v2
title: Attitudes Towards the Drammen Dialect, 1994

description: The primary objective of this project was to map out different attitudes towards the Drammen dialect, and to assess what linguistic characteristics that were connected to negative attitudes towards the dialect. The respondents evaluated people based on language tests, and assessed nine linguistic characteristics, and were asked about their own use of linguistic traits.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd1729-v1
title: Mammography Screening in Norway: An Analysis of Radiologists Attitude and Behavior, 1992.

description: This project investigates Norwegian radiologists attitudes towards and experiences with the use of mammography screening.