Your answers are important
Your participation contributes to increased knowledge about the relationship between work and health. The results from the survey are published as official statistics by Statistics Norway. The last LKA survey was conducted in 2022/2023.
You can read about the results from the previous survey at ssb.no.
Following the survey, a Fact book on Work environment and Health was published, based on the findings, and is used by various stakeholders to improve the working environment for employees.
The results from the survey are also used in the Norwegian Institute of Occupational Health Research's fact pages on work environment and health, where you can find work environment profiles for different occupations and industries. The results are also used in research projects on work environment.
In the survey we ask about:
- work and employment situation
- working from home and office design
- ergonomic
- physical work conditions
- psychosocial work conditions
- job satisfaction
- health and physical afflictions
It takes approximately 20 minutes if you work.
If you have been sampled to the survey, you will be invited to participate by filling out an online questionnaire. You will get a letter in either Altinn or by mail, in addition to an SMS from SSB. In the letter sent to you in Altinn, you will find a link to the questionnaire. In the letter sent by mail, you can write the URL into a web browser that will take you to the online questionnaire. You will be asked to log in through ID-porten.
You can also use the «Go to the survey» button at the top of this page and log in through ID-porten.
You can answer the survey in Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, English, or Polish.
The survey should work on all web browsers and devices (mobile, PC, tablet). If you experience technical issues, try using a different web browser or device.
If you cannot solve the technical problems, please contact us at svar@ssb.no or 62 88 56 08.
A sample of 40 000 people between 18 and 74 years have been randomly selected from the National Population Register to answer the survey.
We need answers from everyone who is sampled for the survey, and we cannot replace you with someone else. Your participation is voluntary, but your answers will contribute to better statistics.
- Your responses will only be used for statistical purposes, and no one other than those directly involved in conducting the survey will have access to your answers.
- Everyone working on the survey is subject to strict confidentiality under Section 8 of the Statistics Act. Breach of confidentiality is a criminal offense.
- The survey is carried out in accordance with the Statistics Act and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). If you have further questions about GDPR, you can send us an e-mail at personvernombud@ssb.no or visit our site at www.ssb.no/en/omssb/personvern
- Your answers are used solely for the production of official statistics and for research purposes. Everyone working at Statistics Norway is bound by a duty of confidentiality, and we never publish individual responses.
- To make the survey as short as possible, we use data about you and your household that Statistics Norway has access to from the following registers: the National Registry, information about education from school owners and the State Educational Loan Fund, Information about employment conditions, sickness absence, income, benefits and allowances from the Norwegian Tax Administration and NAV, and about immigration from the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration (UDI).
- An anonymous data file will be made available for research starting in 2026.
- Collected data can be linked to information from other data sources for use in approved research projects. Relevant data sources include the National Population Register, the a-ordningen (data on employment and wages), NUDB (education), the Norwegian Tax Administration, NAV, the National Insurance Register (FD-trygd), the Cause of Death Register, and various national health registries (the Prescription Database, the Cancer Registry, the Norwegian Patient Registry – NPR, the Municipal Patient and User Register – KPR, and KUHR). This applies to information available at the time of the interview and up until 2036.
- Researchers may, upon application, be granted access to de-identified data for statistical use in research. This means that all names, addresses, and other personal information have been removed. Projects are only granted permission to link specific information that is necessary to answer defined research questions. Before any data linkage is carried out, the required approvals must be in place in accordance with applicable Norwegian law. The data will be available to researchers starting in 2026.
- The data will be anonymized by the end of 2042. Before that, you may contact us at any time to request that your responses be deleted.
Your participation is voluntary. By participating, you also give your consent for Statistics Norway to link your responses to other registers for research purposes. Starting in 2026, you will find an overview here of approved research projects that have been granted access to LKA data.
As a participant, you have control over your data. You may withdraw your consent and request that all survey data about you be deleted from one or more active research projects. Your data cannot be deleted from scientific analyses or articles that have already been published.
If you have questions about the use of data or wish to withdraw your consent, please contact us by email at svar@ssb.no or call 62 88 56 08.
You can withdraw your consent and ask to delete all survey data about you from one or more active research projects. Your data cannot be deleted from scientific analysis and articles that are already published.
You can withdraw your consent by sending us an e-mail at svar@ssb.no or call us at 62 88 56 08.
Do you have more questions?
You will find the most frequently asked questions about the survey below. If you have additional questions not addressed on this page, please see our contact information at the bottom of this page.
Yes, everyone that is sampled for the survey should respond, also if you do not currently work.
You can take a break from the web survey and continue later. Use the same link and you will get back to the survey at the same place where you stopped. Once you have finished the survey, you cannot open it again.