cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2631-3-v3
title: NOKUT National Student Survey – Vocational School Study Programme 2018, Education Programs

description: NOKUT National Student Survey – Vocational School Study Programme 2018, Education Programs

NOKUT shall through various means contribute to society's trust in the quality of higher and vocational education. The student surveys are a part of NOKUTs strategic efforts to document the condition of the sector. 

The student survey for university and university college students has been conducted every year since 2013 and has been established as an important national survey. In 2017, NOKUT was assigned the commission by the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research to conduct an equivalent student survey among vocational school students.

This is a part of the follow up of the vocational school report “Fagfolk for fremtiden” (Skilled workers for the future). The Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research writes the following in an allocation letter dated the 9th of June: “The student survey of the vocational school students will be a web portal which will show the current opinions the vocational school students have about the quality of the education of which they are studying. The survey will make it possible to compare educations across and within fields of study and institutions”. A pilot survey in 9 vocational schools was conducted the autumn of 2017. The first full scale survey was conducted the spring of 2018. The survey was dispatched to all vocational schools in Norway except from one.

By including the vocational school student survey, NOKUTs student surveys cover all tertiary educations, which means all educations that builds on upper secondary education. The survey covers the student's opinions about the quality of the educational provision at Norwegian vocational schools. The purpose of the survey is to provide information about the quality of education to educational institutions, students, student applicants, the authorities and other actors.

This file do not contain variables on personal background. However, it contains all data on education programs and institutions. This file is suitable for analyzes of education programs. Note that respondents on education programs with fewer than tree students in the sample have been removed from the data set.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2632-v2
title: Climate Change and Everyday Mobility – Social Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies, 2019

description: This project was motivated by the need for increased knowledge of how climate change will affect daily mobility patterns, and in particular mode choice, up to 2050. Based on analyses of survey data, climate change projections, and scenario techniques, the project assessed measures and policy instruments to adjust/correct the trajectory of travel behaviour. The project had a comparatively perspective and the geographical context was two of the largest cities of Norway. A comparison with Utrecht (the Netherlands) and Tallinn (Estonia) was done. This dataset was created based on a questionnaire survey done in Oslo and Stavanger to document the perceptions and attitudes and their relationship to travel behaviour (with specific reference to transport mode used in different weather conditions) of the residents of these two cities.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2634-v1
title: Taxation, Institutions and Participation (TIP): The Dynamics of Capital Flows from Angola, Tanzania and Zambia, 2015

description: This project investigated the effects of tax havens on the domestic revenue system, institutions and citizen participation in African countries, with a particular focus on Angola, Tanzania and Zambia. The project aimed to generate new evidence on the political economy of domestic revenue mobilisation, institutional development and state legitimacy in countries exposed to large scale capital flows. Key questions were: How is the taxpaying behavior of domestic taxpayers affected by the elites’ and transnational companies’ use of tax havens? How do large scale (illicit) capital flows affect domestic tax policies and practices, and what role do international accounting firms play in this process? How do tax havens affect institutions in developing countries, government accountability, citizen participation and their views of the state? The project provided an evidence base for policies at country levels to complement current international initiatives. This data file includes data from Tanzania.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2635-v1
title: Interactions between National and Labour Market Based Pensions in Norway: Pension Outcomes and Policy Processes, 2018

description: There is considerable research and debate on the reform of the old age pension in the National Insurance Scheme in Norway, but less is known about the related changes in the contractual pension scheme (AFP) and the consequences of the new regulations for occupational pension schemes in the private sector. This project focused on the overall pension system and the interplay between various schemes. The overall ambition was to map out and model the full impact of the 2011 pension reform, to improve the understanding of the policy processes shaping various parts of the reform, and to place these findings in a broader European context.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2637-v1
title: Community-based organizing against HIV and for rights among same-sex attracted men in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 2018

description: Despite the disproportionate burden of HIV being carried by same-sex practicing men in many African countries, HIV prevention programming targeting such men is still scant. However, in Dar es Salaam a nascent grassroots organizing against HIV and for health and rights is currently emerging. If successful, this kind of organizing may have the potential to play a significant role for HIV prevention. Building on previous research among MSM in Dar es Salaam and using a set of complementary qualitative research methods, this project generated new knowledge about the ongoing evolvement of community-based HIV- and rights-related work among MSM. The study focused on how community-based groups strategize and work, the ways in which they manage to engage and involve a diverse population of MSM in HIV prevention, the ways in which they may achieve contact and collaboration with the 'mainstream HIV establishment', and the ways in which the ongoing work may lead to adjustment or adoption of practices that provide added protection or harm reduction with respect to HIV. The postdoctoral candidate joined one or more of the mentioned groups as a participant, and at the same time, with group members as co-investigators, studied the processes community-based actors go through as they debate, formulate, implement and evaluate community-based activities. The study also employed dialogical interviews (with MSM, 'mainstream' HIV actors and other key informants), group discussions, and media monitoring. The project was carried out in collaboration between the University of Oslo and the Muhimbili University. It contributed to a strengthening of research capacity and competence both in a Norwegian and a Tanzanian university. A third institution with an exceptional international standing also joined the collaboration: the National Centre in HIV Social Research in Sydney, where the postdoctoral candidate was a visiting researcher for 6 months. Data based on participating observations and qualitative interviews. For further information about "Community-based organizing against HIV and for rights among same-sex attracted men in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 2018" please contact the principal investigator.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2637-v2
title: Community-based organizing against HIV and for rights among same-sex attracted men in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 2018

description: Despite the disproportionate burden of HIV being carried by same-sex practicing men in many African countries, HIV prevention programming targeting such men is still scant. However, in Dar es Salaam a nascent grassroots organizing against HIV and for health and rights is currently emerging. If successful, this kind of organizing may have the potential to play a significant role for HIV prevention. Building on previous research among MSM in Dar es Salaam and using a set of complementary qualitative research methods, this project generated new knowledge about the ongoing evolvement of community-based HIV- and rights-related work among MSM. The study focused on how community-based groups strategize and work, the ways in which they manage to engage and involve a diverse population of MSM in HIV prevention, the ways in which they may achieve contact and collaboration with the 'mainstream HIV establishment', and the ways in which the ongoing work may lead to adjustment or adoption of practices that provide added protection or harm reduction with respect to HIV. The postdoctoral candidate joined one or more of the mentioned groups as a participant, and at the same time, with group members as co-investigators, studied the processes community-based actors go through as they debate, formulate, implement and evaluate community-based activities. The study also employed dialogical interviews (with MSM, 'mainstream' HIV actors and other key informants), group discussions, and media monitoring. The project was carried out in collaboration between the University of Oslo and the Muhimbili University. It contributed to a strengthening of research capacity and competence both in a Norwegian and a Tanzanian university. A third institution with an exceptional international standing also joined the collaboration: the National Centre in HIV Social Research in Sydney, where the postdoctoral candidate was a visiting researcher for 6 months.

Data based on participating observations and qualitative interviews.

For further information about "Community-based organizing against HIV and for rights among same-sex attracted men in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 2018" please contact the principal investigator.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2638-v1
title: Promoting health in Healthy Living Centres - does it work, how does it work, and why?, 2017

description: We explored the processes of establishing and conducting healthy living activities and measured outcome on process, health behavior and health. The HLCs offer programs of physical activity, diet, smoking- and snuff cessation, obesity treatment among adults and children, alcohol problems and mastering of depression for adults and adolescents. We used Intervention Mapping as a processing tool to facilitate research activity that takes into account that the activities in the HLCs should be based on best practice, grounded in a local community´s needs and resources, and be sustainable over time. The programs specifically target the underlying causes of chronic disease. We mapped the distribution of lifestyle habits among individuals and families. We also explored how lifestyle habits relate to known determinants of social health inequality, such as adverse previous experiences, participation in working life and low income. We explored effects of the interventions delivered in HLCs by short time (6 months) controlled trial methodology with waiting list control group, and also explore long term effects by longitudinal observational study design and follow up during 2 years or more. Data from the study was also communicated with the HLCs and was used in continuous planning and improvement of interventions. HLCs base their clinical interventions on motivational interviewing (MI) approach, a directive and client centered method aiming at promoting autonomy and self-determination. The research group´s theoretical framework included Self-determination theory (SDT). This theory is strongly linked to the clinical practice of MI. The SDT research community has developed concepts, questionnaires and research methods that are feasible for studying human behavior and motivation. We also studied if socioeconomic differences are of importance for entering or dropping out of HLC interventions, and the ability to sustain lifestyle changes.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2639-v1
title: MBT4CPS: Evolving, Modelling and Testing Realistic and Risky Uncertain Behaviours of Cyber-Physical Systems, 2018

description: The data are evaluation results for a executable model-based testing approach, which contains three parts. First, a set of test models were created to evaluate the applicability of a modelling framework (MoSH) for the testing approach. This corresponds to the models.zip file. Second, the performance of a testing framework (TM-Executor) was evaluated. The files (enter state.csv, evaluate constraint.csv, execute operation.csv, exit state.csv, generate test input.csv, introduce uncertainty.csv, traverse transition.csv) store the time cost of the testing framework to perform the test actions. Third, the file "testing results.csv" contains the number of faults detected by two operation invocation strategies and two uncertainty introducing strategies, for the nine behaviours of three systems. The traces.zip file contains detailed testing traces.

For the test models, systems' names were used as the names of the models. Regarding the time performance data, the time costs of TM-Executor were saved in CSV files, including "enter state.csv", "exit state.csv", "traverse transition.csv", "execute operation.csv", "generate test input.csv", "evaluate constraint.csv", "introduce uncertainty.csv". The first four files only contain one column, which captures the time spent by TM-Executor to perform each action in nanoseconds. "generate test input.csv" and "evaluate constraint.csv" contains three column: number of clauses, parameter types, and time cost in nanoseconds. "introduce uncertainty.csv" also has three column: uncertainty level, uncertainty measure, time cost in nanoseconds. Concerning the testing results data, the numbers of detected faults were saved in a single CSV file, named as "testing results.csv". The file contains 47 columns. The first three columns are testing budget in hours, system name, and self-healing behavior name. The remaining 44 columns are the number of faults detected by four testing approaches, i.e., FOT+UPO, FOT+RANDOM, COT+UPO, COT+RANDOM, in 10 runs of the experiment and the sum of detected faults in the 10 runs. For testing traces, systems' names, strategies' names, and the timestamps of the starting time points of the execution as the names of trace files were used.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2640-v1
title: Conflict of Interest? 'Business for Peace' as Development Aid in Volatile Environments, 2018

description: Investigating business motivations and the local impact of corporate activities in fragile and high-risk areas, the primary objective of the project is to provide the first comprehensive evaluation of aid logics underpinning 'Business for Peace' (B4P).  Studying four country cases, namely Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Myanmar, Somalia and South Sudan, the project aims to create case-specific knowledge on B4P as well as comparative peacebuilding. Furthermore, the project seeks to inform policy debates on B4P in the Norwegian and international aid communities and build academic knowledge of B4P and corporate governance in conflict zones.

This data consist of survey data of 25 closed questions of 1,110 businesspersons in Myanmar and are anonymous data collected on respondent perceptions of the role of the private sector in peacebuilding, sustainable development, and corporate social responsibility in Myanmar. 

For further information about "Conflict of Interest? 'Business for Peace' as Development Aid in Volatile Environments, 2018", please contact the principal investigator.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2641-v1
title: Active Citizenship in Culturally and Religiously Diverse Societies, 2018

description: The ACT project posed 3 overarching research questions: 1) What are the implications of diverse virtues and values on the motivations of citizens to give voice to societal concerns and take an active role in public affairs? 2) How do shifting understandings of 'society' and 'community' and shifting experiences of belonging impact the locations in which active citizenship practices take place? 3) Which tensions and contestations arise in debates on what it means to participate as an active citizen in society? ACT has been a collaboration between the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), the Department of Philosophy at the University of Tromsø and the Department of Political Science and Government at Aarhus University. The project team at PRIO completed the collection of empirical data on local, national and transnational active citizenship in neighborhoods in Oslo and Copenhagen; through life histories, semi-structured interviews, Focus Group Discussions and participant observation. A total of 112 (life history and semi-structured) interviews were conducted. The large majority (80) took place in Oslo. Six focus groups in Oslo and six in Copenhagen were completed. Besides the general data collection researchers at PRIO decided to focus on three 'cases' or 'arenas': Christian parish, Muslim youth initiative, Individuals with a refugee background. In Denmark, research was carried out on Muslim participation in Danish public debate. For further information about ”Active Citizenship in Culturally and Religiously Diverse Societies, 2018”, please contact the principal investigator.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2642-v2
title: Uncertainty Communication and Climate Changes, 2017

description: IPCC has developed detailed guidelines for how to express uncertainties in the field of climate change in a consistent way. At the same time, recent cross-national studies have demonstrated extensive misinterpretations of recommended terms. The aim of the present project is to go beyond these demonstrations and uncover how people perceive and understand uncertainty in climatic forecasts, and on this basis provide communicators with informed advice on how their message will be read by different audiences. The project has three parts. (1) Subproject 1 focuses on people's perceptions of wide vs. narrow uncertainty intervals (range estimates) and upper vs. lower limit estimates. The studies are based on prior research done by Teigen, Jørgensen, Halberg, and Fostervold, indicating (a) a preference for overly narrow intervals, and (b) framing effects of single-limit intervals (different pragmatic implications of maximum vs. minimum estimates). (2) Subproject 2 concerns the interpretations of verbal probabilities, derived from the "which outcome approach", recently developed by Teigen, Juanchich, Filkuková and others. Their studies suggest that predictions involving what will happen, or is certain, typically describe minimum outcomes, and what can happen, or is possible, typically describe maximum outcomes. The current project asked how people interpret such statements for positive versus negative outcomes in a context of climate change. (3) These part projects suggest several overlapping issues, including a preoccupation with extreme outcomes, a preference for numeric vs. verbal estimates, the role of numeracy, and which kind of probability concepts people have in mind. Findings provide insights into lay interpretations of uncertainty in scientific forecasts, and suggests guidelines for how uncertain effects of climate change should be communicated in a reliable way, thereby preparing the public and policy makers for societal consequences of climate changes.

For further information regarding "Uncertainty Communication and Climate Changes, 2017", contact principal investigator.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.22189225
title: 23-DPG-raw-data.xlsx

description: 2,3-DPG levels data; Secondary structure alterations of RBC assessed by FTIR-ATR in correlation to 2,3-DPG levels in ApoE/LDLR–/– Mice
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.22189225.v1
title: 23-DPG-raw-data.xlsx

description: 2,3-DPG levels data; Secondary structure alterations of RBC assessed by FTIR-ATR in correlation to 2,3-DPG levels in ApoE/LDLR–/– Mice
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2643-v1
title: Perceived Regional Variation in Spoken Russian Among Young Russians, 2015

description: The main purpose of the project was to explore naïtive language users' view on regional variation in spoken Russian. 59 interviews with Russian adolescents in three Russian cities: Moscow, Perm and Novosibirsk. The main topic of the interview was regional variation in Russian. other topics include stylistic variation and general variation in Russian. The interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed. The interviews were semi-structured and followed an interview guide. As part of the interview, the informants were asked to draw any perceived regional differences in russian on a blank map of Russia. Data from the project was used to study potential measurable differences in speech production in the area of prosody or phonetics which can be ascribed to the regional variety of Russian in each city (Post and Vardoy 2015). The conversations were analysed and compared to find out what is similar and different when russians speak, from a lingustic perspective. No connection was found between individuals' perception of their own speech and phonetic measures of those individual speech.
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2644-v1
title: NEGOTIATE Employer Survey. Scientific Use File, 2019

description: In an effort to broaden the understanding of how early job insecurity can affect an individual’s future career from an employer’s perspective, an employer-sided survey with an integrated multidimensional vignette experiment in Bulgaria, Greece, Norway and Switzerland was fielded in 2016 as part of NEGOTIATE. This report documents the sampling strategy, the datacollection and the survey experiment design in the four countries. In addition, some basic descriptive results from the survey is presented. 

The unique data set is innovative in at least three regards: First, the results from the vignette experiment allow causal interpretation and provide high internal validity. Second, the respondents are real employers who were recruiting for real vacancies, which maximises the external validity. And third, the crossnational harmonised study facilitates direct country comparisons.

For access to the data set, use the NSD application form:

http://www.nsd.uib.no/nsd/english/orderform.html
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2644-v3
title: NEGOTIATE Employer Survey. Scientific Use File, 2020

description: In an effort to broaden the understanding of how early job insecurity can affect an individual’s future career from an employer’s perspective, an employer-sided survey with an integrated multidimensional vignette experiment in Bulgaria, Greece, Norway and Switzerland was fielded in 2016 as part of NEGOTIATE. This report documents the sampling strategy, the datacollection and the survey experiment design in the four countries. In addition, some basic descriptive results from the survey is presented. The unique data set is innovative in at least three regards: First, the results from the vignette experiment allow causal interpretation and provide high internal validity. Second, the respondents are real employers who were recruiting for real vacancies, which maximises the external validity. And third, the crossnational harmonised study facilitates direct country comparisons. For access to the data set, use the NSD application form: http://www.nsd.uib.no/nsd/english/orderform.html