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The user manual for microdata.no has now been updated and describes all new functionality that has been implemented since April 2022.

The course offer in microdata.no continues through the fall term 2022with two courses on specific topics on a more advanced level and two types of introductory courses, one of which is aimed at participants with sparse programming experience. Earlier specialized courses will be available on video. The courses are in Norwegian. Courses in English on…

Overview of new functionality made available during the first half of 2022. We have developed and made available new functionality this spring, in collaboration with users. Below follows a quick summary of key functionality rolled out in this period. Increased user-friendliness – more efficient workflows During March we launched a range of big and small…

Microdata.no now has a new tool that simplifies larger recode operations. In microdata.no you can recode both numeric and alphanumeric variables. Users can freely define their own ranges and rules. In some situations it is useful to base recode rules on official classifications and/or reuse well defined correspondence tables when recoding. In script-mode you can…

In addition to the command reshape-to-panel, we now introduce reshape-from-panel which makes it possible to go the opposite way, namely to restructure datasets from long- to wide-format. This provides significantly greater flexibility when adapting datasets for analyses.

The new command reshape-to-panel gives you the freedom to restructure your data to long-format, i.e. data where the information is organized downwards as observations / records.

The analysis directory in microdata.no has been expanded with the new command oaxaca. This is a tool to measure whether there are systematic differences between two groups, e.g. men and women, and the differences are further decomposed into an explained and an unexplained component.

It is now possible to calculate marginal effects for logistic regression analyzes in other ways than the default value “overall”, using the new option “mfx_at ()”.

Recode string variables faster and easier in microdata.no.

Today’s offer of free access to microdata.no will continue through 2023. In the meantime platform owners Sikt and Statistics Norway will prepare a payment model in co-operation with the users. Sikt and Statistics Norway have decided that access to microdata.no will continue to be be free of costs for as long as the Microdata 2…

For variable import in microdata.no, the standard solution is “left join”, where the first variable that is imported into a dataset determines the population. But now we introduce the possibility to import data using “outer join” so that also new individuals / units that don’t exist in your original population will be added to your…

A number of improvements speed up your microdata.no scripting. Thanks to our smart users for smart suggestions.

By introducing 29 new variables, microdata.no doubles the number of variables from the A-ordningen in the new version 14 of the database. Among the news are data on monthly salaries, overtime and bonuses. Microdata.no now has 78 variables on employment.

The course offer in microdata.no in the spring term 2022 includes two types of introductory courses, one of which is aimed at participants with sparse programming experience, and two courses on specific topics on a more advanced level. The courses are in Norwegian, except for the introductory course 22. March.

Dropout and completion of upper secondary and higher education opens up as a field of analysis after the latest data extension in microdata.no. The new version of the data base includes data on date started, date completed or not completed, and number of semesters used.

The user manual has been updated and describes the latest commands and functionalities that have been implemented from September 2020 until January 2022.

Monthly microdata on employments and earnings without having to apply for them – this is the latest offer in microdata.no. How that is possible? Because Statistics Norway has started loading data from the Norwegian digital collection system of job, income, and tax deductions into the service.

A four hours digital introductory course free of costs gets you started on microdata.no. Choose from nine dates. Sign up to microdata@ssb.no

What data can I get and how do I get it? In the newsletter “Sharing of data” you can follow information about data updates, both in microdata.no and for data you have to apply for, and you get to know about courses and other events. Sign up here (Norwegian only).

Starting in November, you can use microdata.no as a self-service, timesaving order site for microdata. When you attach a microdata.no script to the application, Statistics Norway can extract the data you yourself composed directly from the service.