Norway

This page contains links to library statistics from Norway in the Plinius Data Bank.

Picture from Northern Norway (Finnmark).

Relevant statistics from neighbouring fields – like media, culture and education – are also included.

Tables

National

• Most popular non-fiction books winter 08/09.
• 1000 top titles. Adults. Aug. 3, 2009.
• 1000 top loans. Children. Aug 6, 2009
• Public libraries 1918-1998. Norway.

Muncipalities

• 2007 KOSTRA data with indicators for public libraries. Norway. Municipalities.
• 2008 KOSTRA data with indicators for public libraries. Norway. Municipalities
• Book loans per capita. Norway 2001-2007. Municipalities.
• Changes in book loans by category. Norway 2006-2007.  Municipalities.
• Children and New media loans 2006-2008. Municipalities.
• Fiction and non-fiction loans per adult. Norway 06-08. Municipalities.
• Inhabitants per FTE (Innbyggere pr. årsverk) 2001-2008. Municipalities.
• Visits per capita Norway 2006-2008. Municipalities

Replaced by newer KOSTRA tables:

• Turnover rates for adult fiction. Norway 2007. Municipalities.
• External indicators based on KOSTRA. Norway 2007. Municipalities.
• Preliminary KOSTRA data for large public libraries. Norway 2008. Municipalities

Regional and local

• Borrowers and loans. Ålesund PL. 2008.
• Borrowers. Buskerud 2008. Municipalities

CTT/TTT‘

• Patterns of activity, Public libraries. Norway. 2008-2009
  • Traffic data from twenty public libraries with with derived indicator values
• Students in action: An observation study of the Oslo University College Learning Centre.
  • Contains 9.500 observations of student activities – registered during one full week in March 2009.

Resources

In Norway, the main producers of library statistics are

• Statistics Norway = Statistisk sentralbyrå (SSB)
• The Norwegian Archive, Library and Museum Authority = ABM-utvikling

Statistics Norway

Statistics Norway has an extremely rich and highly professional web site. To utilize it fully, it must be explored in detail. Here I indicate two points of access to library statistics:

• 07.01.40 Libraries, museums, archives, and other dissemination of culture
• Key figures for municipal activities (KOSTRA)

The latter page gives a brief introduction to the KOSTRA system. The KOSTRA data base contains standardized statistics for all municipal services – including public libraries. To go further, we must enter the Norwegian part of the site.

In my own work, I mainly use KOSTRA Table 04692 (= Tabell: 04692: K. Kultur – nivå 3 (K)), which provides individual values for all the variables that are used to calculate library indicators.

The Norwegian Archive, Library and Museum Authority (ABM-utvikling)

• Statistikk for bibliotek is the main page on library statistics.
• Statistikk for fag- og forskningsbibliotek is the main page on statistics for academic and special libraries

Samstat – with TTT/CTT

• Samarbeidsutvalget for bibliotekstatistikk [Joint committee for library statistics] consists of representatives from most library associations at the national level.
• TTT. [Tverrgående trafikktelling = CTT]. Home page in Norwegian with links to resources.
• CTT. [Count the Traffic = TTT]. Home page in English with links to resources.

Plinius: blog posts on library statistics

• Plinius om statistikk. Index to posts in Norwegian
• Plinius on statistics. Index to posts in English