Your participation is important to our research! The study is conducted through a digital questionnaire, which you will receive after confirming your participation. You can sign up here

The personal data we collect from you is stored in encrypted form on a research server, which will only be accessible to one person in the administration. The Parent Study has been reviewed by Sikt – Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research, and found to comply with the Personal Data Act.

For more privacy information, please get in touch with the data protection officer at NHH at personvernombud@nhh.no.

The Parent Study is led by researchers at FAIR at the Norwegian School of Economics in collaboration with the Ministry of Children and Families and is funded by the Research Council of Norway.

For any questions, please contact: Email: forelderstudien@nhh.no

The project has been assessed by Sikt – Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research

The goal of this project is to better understand families’ needs and decision-making processes.

You have received this invitation because you are the parent of a child born in 2020, 2021, or 2022 who attends one of approximately 300 randomly selected kindergartens in Norway.

NHH (the Norwegian School of Economics) is responsible for the personal data processed in this project.

Participation in the survey is voluntary. If your family wishes to participate, either you or the other parent will receive a link to a digital survey via SMS. The study is conducted through a digital questionnaire. It takes about 10–20 minutes to complete and consists of a few simple questions. No prior knowledge or preparation is required.

If the other parent is the one who receives the survey, he or she will answer some questions about you (including your name and phone number), and we will link the survey results to information from Statistics Norway. You have the right to opt out of this. There will be no negative consequences if you do not wish to participate, if you opt out, or if you later request that your data be deleted. Throughout the project, you can follow updates on the Parent Study at nhh.no/forelderstudien, where we will post information and news about the project.

Participant names, birthdates, and contact details will be stored in encrypted form on a research server and will only be accessible to a limited number of people in the administration at FAIR at the Norwegian School of Economics. Researchers involved in the project will not have access to directly identifiable personal data.

Information about you and your family is retrieved from public registers to which Statistics Norway has access. This includes school performance/absence records and education, employment, income and assets, benefits and allowances, as well as demographic information (age, gender, migration, and family composition). We will link the study results to data from Statistics Norway for both children and parents until the study concludes (no later than 2040). We will also link the study results to screening tests carried out by municipalities in first and third grade.

It will not be possible to identify you in any publications from the project, and your individual data will never be made public.

We process data for scientific research purposes, and the research project is considered to be in the public interest.

On behalf of the Norwegian School of Economics, Sikt’s Privacy Services have determined that the processing of personal data in this project complies with data protection regulations.

As long as you can be identified in the data, you have the right to object to the processing, and to request access to, correction of, and deletion of the data we process about you. You will receive a response within one month. We will provide a clear explanation if we believe that you cannot be identified or if these rights cannot be exercised. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Norwegian Data Protection Authority if you are dissatisfied with how we handle your data.

The project is scheduled to end on December 31, 2040. At that time, survey data will be anonymized, and any data retrieved from Statistics Norway will be deleted.

Our society depends on us caring for and looking after each other. Therefore, everyone in Norway has a duty to prevent serious crimes such as murder, rape, domestic violence, and sexual abuse of children. If it is unsafe for you to intervene, you are still required to inform the police.

Please note that this duty to prevent serious crimes (avvergingsplikt) takes precedence over the duty of confidentiality. For more information on avvergingsplikt, please click [here].

If you are concerned that a child may not be receiving adequate care, you should contact the child welfare services. You do not have to be certain that something is wrong. Once you have reported your concern, it is the child welfare service’s job to determine how to follow up. All public employees and certain private professionals subject to professional confidentiality are required to report concerns to the child welfare services if they are seriously worried about a child. For more information about the duty to report, please click https://www.bufdir.no/en/child-welfare-services/contact/

· Project Manager: forelderstudien@nhh.no

· Data Protection Officer: personvernombud@nhh.no

If you have questions regarding Sikt Privacy Services’ assessment of the project, you can contact them by email at personverntjenester@sikt.no or by phone at +47 53 21 15 00.