On the data collection

2010 was the sixth year for which the political parties were obliged to report their revenues pursuant to the Political Parties Act. By means of various sources Statistics Norway gained an overview of the party organisations obliged to report their revenues, and provided these organisations with information and questionnaires.

The population for 2010 was based on information about organisations having applied for and received funding in 2011 and supplemented by means of the parties' head organisations as well as the 2009 population. We consider the population as complete for the political parties covered by the data collection.

The 2011 report covered 3 228 party organisations. This number does not include units that prior to the data collection were reported closed down or that were established during 2011.

At the deadline for reporting, which was set to 1 July, 2 996 party organisations (92.8 per cent) had reported their revenues. This first publication contains the party organisations that had reported their revenues by 26 August.

Response rate

Political party

Total number of units

Response rate at 1 July

Response rate at 26 August

Progress Party

384

99.7

100.0

The Pensioners' Party

53

94,3

100,0

Communist Party of Norway

8

87,5

100,0

Sami People’s Party

7

100,0

100,0

The Liberal People's Party

3

100,0

100,0

Conservative Party

435

94,5

99,1

Socialist Left Party

355

96,1

98,9

Centre Party

447

92,2

98,7

Liberal Party

363

92,3

98,6

Christian Democratic Party

383

93,0

96,9

Labour Party

467

94,0

95,9

The Greens

47

95,7

95,7

Christian Coalition Party

26

92,3

92,3

Red

129

82,2

88,4

Coast Party

72

66,7

79,2

Democratic Party

49

59,2

63,3

Total

3228

92,8

96,8

According to the Political Parties Act, the report shall contain a complete overview of the income received by the party or the party organisation during the 2010 fiscal year. The reports as they appear at www.partifinansiering.no have not been revised.

Contact:

Statistics Norway:

Tor Henriksen, e-mail: tor.henriksen@ssb.no, telephone: +47 62 88 50 53

Ministry of Government Administration, Reform and Church Affairs:

Jens-Oscar Nergård, e-mail: jens-oscar.nergard@fad.dep.no, telephone: +47 22 24 47 89


2011