Author: Svein Johansen

The course offer in microdata.no continues through the fall term 2022with two courses on specific topics on a more advanced level and two types of introductory courses, one of which is aimed at participants with sparse programming experience. Earlier specialized courses will be available on video. The courses are in Norwegian. Courses in English on…

Today’s offer of free access to microdata.no will continue through 2023. In the meantime platform owners Sikt and Statistics Norway will prepare a payment model in co-operation with the users. Sikt and Statistics Norway have decided that access to microdata.no will continue to be be free of costs for as long as the Microdata 2…

A number of improvements speed up your microdata.no scripting. Thanks to our smart users for smart suggestions.

By introducing 29 new variables, microdata.no doubles the number of variables from the A-ordningen in the new version 14 of the database. Among the news are data on monthly salaries, overtime and bonuses. Microdata.no now has 78 variables on employment.

The course offer in microdata.no in the spring term 2022 includes two types of introductory courses, one of which is aimed at participants with sparse programming experience, and two courses on specific topics on a more advanced level. The courses are in Norwegian, except for the introductory course 22. March.

Dropout and completion of upper secondary and higher education opens up as a field of analysis after the latest data extension in microdata.no. The new version of the data base includes data on date started, date completed or not completed, and number of semesters used.

Monthly microdata on employments and earnings without having to apply for them – this is the latest offer in microdata.no. How that is possible? Because Statistics Norway has started loading data from the Norwegian digital collection system of job, income, and tax deductions into the service.

A four hours digital introductory course free of costs gets you started on microdata.no. Choose from nine dates. Sign up to microdata@ssb.no

What data can I get and how do I get it? In the newsletter “Sharing of data” you can follow information about data updates, both in microdata.no and for data you have to apply for, and you get to know about courses and other events. Sign up here (Norwegian only).

Starting in November, you can use microdata.no as a self-service, timesaving order site for microdata. When you attach a microdata.no script to the application, Statistics Norway can extract the data you yourself composed directly from the service.