Norwegian life history study, 1971
By: principal investigators, Natalie Rogoff Ramsøy and Kari Skrede
Series: ICPSR -- 8545; ICPSR (Series) -- 8545
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Number of pages: 14
Subjects: Men; Social conditions; Social surveys
Description: This data collection represents interviews with birth cohorts of Norwegian males born in 1921, 1931, and 1941 who were 50, 40, and 30 years of age at the time the interviews were conducted (November 1971 - March 1972). The objective of the study was to investigate historical life changes in the life cycle experiences of Norwegian men. The respondents were asked about the families into which they were born, their childhoods, and their lives from the age of fourteen until the time of the interview. The major areas covered in the interviews include: place of residence, education, work history, income, household status and composition, marital status and family composition, illness and injuries, and receipt of benefits.
Notes: Survey data.

Holding archive: National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging.

ICPSR data class: Class IV.

Chronological coverage: 1921-1971; Data of collected: November 1971-March 1972.

Personal interviews.

Norway.

Funding for the English language edition was provided by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute of Aging, AG02816-03.

Logical record length format.

The age distribution for the 3470 interviewed men was: age 30 (N=1054), age 40 (N=1094), age 50 (N=1322). The English language edition of the codebook was produced by Aage Sorensen, Annemette Sorensen, and David L. Featherman, University of Wisconsin, Department of Sociology, who extensively reorganized the data into machine- readable rectangular event-based analysis files. The data and documentation have also been aaugmented by additional information they acquired during the course of their research. Sorensen et al. obtained the original data set from the Norwegian Social Science Data Services, University of Bergen. Seven data files from the original data set have been omitted.

Part number: 1 ; part name: Main Activity Data ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 47,615 ; variable count: 7 ; LRECL: 18 ; records per case: 1.

Part number: 2 ; part name: Residence Data ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 30,322 ; variable count: 9 ; LRECL: 23 ; records per case: 1.

Part number: 3 ; part name: Formal Education Data ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 21,139 ; variable count: 19 ; LRECL: 41 ; records per case: 1.

Part number: 4 ; part name: On the Job Training Data ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 1,608 ; variable count: 12 ; LRECL: 34 ; records per case: 1.

Part number: 5 ; part name: Main Occupation Data ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 35,777 ; variable count: 72 ; LRECL: 196 ; records per case: 1.

Part number: 6 ; part name: Secondary Occupation Data ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 2,049 ; variable count: 17 ; LRECL: 39 ; records per case: 1.

Part number: 7 ; part name: Marital Status Data ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 6,889 ; variable count: 9 ; LRECL: 24 ; records per case: 1.

Part number: 8 ; part name: Children Data ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 7,071 ; variable count: 22 ; LRECL: 50 ; records per case: 1.

Part number: 9 ; part name: Household Composition Data ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 44,582 ; variable count: 36 ; LRECL: 79 ; records per case: 1.

Part number: 10 ; part name: Health Data ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 2,993 ; variable count: 27 ; LRECL: 61 ; records per case: 1.

Part number: 11 ; part name: Employment Data ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 260 ; variable count: 9 ; LRECL: 26 ; records per case: 1.

Part number: 12 ; part name: Sickness Benefit Data ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 2,335 ; variable count: 5 ; LRECL: 18 ; records per case: 1.

Part number: 13 ; part name: Informal Education Data ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 2,146 ; variable count: 17 ; LRECL: 37 ; records per case: 1.

Part number: 14 ; part name: Respondent File ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 3,470 ; variable count: 237 ; LRECL: 459 ; records per case: 1.

Sampling was done through the central population register under the direction of the Norwegian Central Bureau of Statistics. A two-stage sampling procedure was employed. The universe of men in the three age cohorts living in the 300 primary sampling units served as the basis for the second sampling stage.

Universe: The population of men residing in Norway born in either 1921, 1931, or 1941 who were listed in the central population register of the Norwegian Central Bureau of Statistics as of December 31, 1970.

Featherman, David L. and Annemette Sorensen. "Societal Transformation in Norway and Changes in Life Course Transitions into Adulthood." Acta sociologia. 1983.

Ramsoy, Natalie Rogoff. "Life Changes and Life Histories: Remarks on Concept and Method in the Norwegian Occupational Life Study." Memorandum No. 6 from the Occupational History Study. Oslo, Norway: Institute of Applied Social Research. 1973.

Skrede, Kari. "Inequality of Education, Income and Health Status in Three Norwegian Male Cohorts (Revised Version)." Memorandum No. 13 from the Occupational Mobility Study. Oslo, Norway: Institute of Applied Social Research. 1976.