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With nearly 40 years of data, including responses from over 1,300,000 young people, the HBSC study provides a unique and indispensable resource to compare the health and well-being of adolescents between countries and over time.

Member countries and stakeholders at national and international levels use our data to monitor young people’s health, understand the social determinants of health and well-being, and determine effective health improvement interventions.

Those working in child and adolescent health view HBSC as an extensive databank and repository of multidisciplinary expertise, which can: support and further their research interests, lobby for change, inform policy and practice, and monitor trends over time.

The HBSC network is committed to developing ways to increase the use of the study’s data by external researchers so that this rich resource may be put to full use.

HBSC study Data Browser

Dive into HBSC study’s data on adolescent health and well-being. Explore, compare and share cross-national results from the latest international survey in 2022, alongside comparable figures from the HBSC surveys in 2014 and 2018.

Create custom visualisations and explore time trends and gender, age and socio-economic differences.

Laptop showing the open access to data interface

OPEN ACCESS TO RAW DATA

You are free to browse and download the collection of nationally representative data for 11, 13 and 15 year old students for the 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014 and 2018 rounds of the HBSC study.

 

Raw international data from the 2021/22 HBSC survey is under embargo until October 2026.

DATA MANAGEMENT

The HBSC Data Management Centre is funded by the Norwegian Directorate of Health and Social Affairs and is based at the Department of Health Promotion and Development at the University of Bergen.

Data Bank Manager

Oddrun Samdal

Data Management Centre staff

Atle Jastad
Torbjoern Torsheim
Trond Helland

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