The purpose of this project is to create new knowledge on how cooperating public service providers implement their rights and duties regarding confidentiality and disclosure. Agencies include the health and welfare services, ...

Policymakers in Norway have addressed dropout from upper secondary school as an increasing problem in a society, where knowledge and formal skills are gaining in importance to participate. Despite profound school reforms ...

Hvert tredje år er bolig tema for Statistisk sentralbyrås levekårsundersøkelser. På oppdrag fra Husbanken har NOVA analysert data fra levekårsundersøkelsen som ble gjennomført høsten 2007. Rapporten gir en tilstandsrapport ...

This report presents results from the first countrywide questionnaire study including users of residential care ever conducted in Norway. 436 boys and girls from 114 residential child welfare units participated during the ...

This report presents findings from the first evaluation of the Norwegian equivalent to children’s advocacy centers: Statens barnehus. The evaluation was carried out on behalf of the Police Directorate. A second report from ...

This report comes out of a small research project commissioned to NOVA by the Administration for health and welfare in the Municipality of Oslo, who wanted better documentation on the «needs for care services for the elderly ...

This report seeks to penetrate the reasons why immigrant youth are more delinquent and asocial than Norwegian youth. The report is based on data from Young in Norway 2002. As in previous surveys, immigrant youth score ...

In Norway, tracing the parents or caregivers of unaccompanied minor asylum seekers is politically anchored in chapter 8 of Stortingsmelding no. 17 (2000-2001) from (KRD 2001). The then sharp increase in the numbers of UMAs ...

11 425 Oslo-ungdommer i alderen 14-17 år deltok våren 1996 i Ungdomsundersøkelsen i Oslo (Ung i Oslo 1996). Rapporten presenterer hovedresultatene fra undersøkelsen. Formålet er å gi et bredt og oppdatert bilde av både ...

The report presents new knowledge about ageing and work, older workers, and retirement. On two earlier occasions NOVA has produced state of the art publications on ageing and work (Solem 2001, 2007a) for the Centre for ...