Summary This report is based on interviews with children and parents in low income families (below 60 percent of median income, the low income sample') and with children and parents from a general sample of families (the ...

This report describes a project carried out by the social research institutes NOVA and Fafo on behalf of the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development (KRD). The Ministrys prime concern was to document routines ...

SummaryIn the autumn of 2003 the State Housing Bank commissioned the Norwegian Building Research Institute and NOVA to draw up the basis for a new rent index that will provide fuller knowledge of the housing rental market ...

This report investigates changes in sports activities and exercise habits among Norwegian youth in the period of 1992 to 2002. Do sports organisations manage to recruit broadly? Are there differences between youth according ...

SummaryThis report is part of the project "A digital childhood", supported by The Programme on Welfare Research, the Research Council of Norway. The project participants come from The University of Oslo, SINTEF (The ...

Summary This report presents results from NOVAs evaluation of the mentor function in the "Should-shouldnt" study. This is a three-year, value-based project aiming to increase the competence of schools and kindergartens in ...

Summary This study explores how adolescents understand concepts relating to sexual exploitation and abuse. Furthermore, it investigates their perceptions of youths’ and adults’ different roles in relationships that the ...

Summary The Government White Paper on day care provision presented in December 1999 announced a three-year quality drive. Starting in 2001, all Norwegian day care centres were to establish, by the end of 2003, tools and ...

Den boligsosiale politikken består av et mylder av ulike virkemiddel. Noen av disse finansieres og forvaltes på statlig nivå, mens andre forvaltes og finansieres på et kommunalt nivå. En skranke i utformingen av virkemidlene ...

In this report results are presented from a study of collaboration between day care institutions and the Child Welfare Authorities, commissioned by the Ministry of Education and Research and the Ministry of Children and ...