Income and wealth

Statistics

Farmers’ income and debt
The statistics present figures for incomes and debt for persons who are operating agricultural holdings.
Forest owners' income
personal forest owners, income from self-employment, forestry income, agricultural income
Income and wealth statistics for households
Measures the economic resources households have for saving and consumption.
Income, self-employed
The survey shows the effect of the tax system on self-employed persons
Poverty-related problems, survey on living conditions
The statistics cover poverty-related problems for different groups in the Norwegian population, such as financial difficultiesand social and material deprivation. The data is based on the Survey on living conditions EU-SILC.
Tax for personal tax payers
The statistics gives an overview of taxable income, income deductions and taxable assets, as well as taxes and tax allowances, for people with a tax obligation in Norway
Cash transfers to families with children
The statistics has been discontinued
Population and Housing Census, household income
The statistics has been discontinued

Analyses, articles and publications

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  1. Immigration and income inequality in Norway 1993-2022

    This report examines the relationship between immigration and income inequality in Norway from 1993 to2022.

  2. Income inequality in Norway, 2016-2022

    This report describes the development in the concentration of personal market income and inequalityin the distribution of household disposable income in Norway in the period 2016–2022.

  3. Childhood and life course among lowincome groups

    The purpose of this report is to contribute to the understanding of why persons are in low-income groups.

  4. Investigation of schemes for combining wage income with disability benefits

    Under current regulations, fully disabled individuals can earn up to 0.4 times the basic amount in the National Insurance Scheme (G) without their benefits being reduced. Beyond this exempt income limit, benefits are typically reduced by approximately 66 kroner for every 100 kroner earned.

  5. Measurement of child poverty: An investigation of supplementary poverty measures

    This report investigates and recommends alternative poverty measures that may supplement the standard measure of persistent poverty used by Statistics Norway.

  6. Pension entitlements are four times higher than GDP

    The share of GDP has remained unchanged since 2019. At the end of 2021, the present value of Norwegian households accrued-to-date pension entitlements was estimated at approximately NOK 13 200 billion.

  7. Micro and macro evidence of the relationship between income mobility and taxation

    How taxation influences income mobility is largely a neglected topic. In this study we discuss the relationship between taxation and income mobility by analyzing both macro and micro data.

  8. Increased interest rates and implications for household income

    This report discusses the increased economic burden for Norwegian households following from increased interest rates in Norway.

  9. Children in low-income households in the Nordic countries 2005-2020

    In 2005 the four Nordic countries Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden all had about the same proportion of children in low-income households, which was among the lowest in Europe.

  10. Reconciling estimates of the long-term earnings effect of fertility

    This paper presents novel methodological and empirical contributions to the child penalty literature. We propose a new estimator that combines elements from standard event study and instrumental variable estimators and demonstrate their relatedness.

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