About KODEM-data

Do you want to use data from the citizen panel, politicians panel, panel of public administrators or the journalist panel? Or do you want to ask your own questions in one of the panels?

Access data

Data from the panels is available for use in research and education.

For the Norwegian Citizen Panel, the best way to access the data is to download data from Sikt. If you want to use longitudinal data, text data or data from the newest wave that is not available at Sikt: Contact us at kodem@uib.no to access data through SAFE, UiBs secure data management system.

This also applies if you want to use data from the panel of politicians, panel of public administrators or the panel of journalists: Contact us at kodem@uib.no to access data through SAFE, UiBs secure data management system.

More about data management and personal data protection for respondents here.

Norwegian Citizen Panel at Sikt

Do you want to ask your own questions?

Research projects can buy time for data collection in the Norwegian Citizen Panel, the Norwegian Panel of Politicians, the Norwegian Panel of Public Administrators or the Norwegian Panel of Journalists, or a combination of these. If you plan to apply for a research project and want to use KODEM-data or if if you already have financing and wish to buy space in the panels: Contact us at kodem@uib.no or erla.lovseth@uib.no.

In addition, in the establishment period of KODEM, we will regularly announce opportunities for pre-projects. This is directed at researchers and research groups lead from universities, research institutes or university colleges in Norway that wish to establish a new project still without financing. Calls will be announced at the KODEM webpages.

Explore Citizen Panel Data

For over ten years, the Norwegian Citizen Panel at the University of Bergen has asked questions to thousands of randomly selected residents across Norway. We have been interested in tracking Norwegians’ attitudes and opinions over time, through the oil crisis, the refugee crisis, rural uprisings, economic downturns, and more.

To learn more about many of the variables that have asked of citizens over time, click the button below. Here, we present opinion trends from the Norwegian Citizen Panel. In addition to the trends, you can also find “Trend Notes” in the menu, where researchers have analyzed and commented on selected trends. You can also explore our data yourself through the “Explore Our Data” section.

You can also explore Citizen Panel data on Sikt’s website.

Explore data over time here (in Norwegian) Explore data on Sikt's site here

Last updated: 28.09.2025