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Weekly Bulletin issue no. 39, 1997 <sti>Stikktittel

Survey on attitudes to protection of personal privacy, 1997:

Health more sensitive than politics

Fully 57 per cent of those asked in a survey on protection of personal privacy view health information as extremely sensitive information, while only 15 per cent think information about political views is extremely sensitive. At the same time many people believe personal information is subject to misuse in the health-care system.
Information about personal finances and solvency were regarded as highly sensitive by respectively 34 and 39 per cent of the respondents, while only six per cent viewed trade union membership in the same way.

The higher a respondent's education the more likely they are to regard all these types of information as more sensitive, the survey showed. This was particularly true in regard to health information. Seventy per cent of the respondents with the highest education answered that they regard health information as extremely sensitive, but the same applies to only 44 per cent of respondents with a basic education. By a ratio of 60 to 54 per cent, more women than men hold this view.

New Statistics

Survey on attitudes to protection of personal privacy, 1997.
More information: Elizabeth Gulløy, tel. +47 21 09 46 73, e-mail: gul@ssb.no or Hege Njaa, Data Inspectorate, tel. +47 22 39 69 30.

Weekly Bulletin issue no. 39, 1997