Editorial mapping · 4 November 2026
This map shows what we have recorded in the existing Insight overviews. It describes our published content; it does not claim to cover all girls' and women's health or to have reviewed all available statistics.
Each cell shows how many existing statistical overviews have been recorded for the combination. Select a count to open links to the corresponding statistics. A higher number is not an assessment of quality. 'None recorded' only means that the index has no separate overview for that combination.
| Health topic | Ages 8–12 | Ages 13–17 | Ages 18–24 | Adulthood | Pregnancy and postpartum | Older adulthood | Menopause |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Growing up and school | 1 overview | None recorded | None recorded | None recorded | None recorded | None recorded | |
| Mental health and quality of life | None recorded | 1 overview | 1 overview | None recorded | None recorded | None recorded | None recorded |
| Sleep | None recorded | 1 overview | None recorded | None recorded | None recorded | None recorded | None recorded |
| Sexual health and violence | None recorded | 8 overviews
| 16 overviews
| None recorded | 1 overview | ||
| Pregnancy, childbirth and abortion | None recorded | None recorded | 1 overview | 1 overview | None recorded | None recorded | |
| Healthcare services | None recorded | None recorded | None recorded | None recorded | None recorded | ||
| Screening and prevention | None recorded | None recorded | None recorded | 2 overviews | None recorded | 1 overview | 2 overviews |
| Gynaecological health | None recorded | None recorded | |||||
| Health and disease | None recorded | None recorded | None recorded | ||||
| Research | None recorded | None recorded | None recorded | None recorded | None recorded | None recorded |
Life stages are editorial entry points, not strict medical age thresholds. A dataset may be recorded under several stages. Cross-cutting research and healthcare statistics can describe broader populations than the stage suggests; always check the population for each original chart.
These assessments describe existing visualisations and their limitations. They are not ratings of the quality of medical evidence.
Ages 8–17
Published Ungdata Junior and Ungdata findings cover grades 5–7 and grades 8 through the final year of upper secondary school. Some indicators are broken down by sex; others cover everyone together.
Description: Direct existing statistics
Ages 13–24
Ungdata charts broken down by sex for adolescents, plus separate Statistics Norway figures for women aged 18–24. These measures do not describe clinical diagnoses.
Description: Direct, using different measures
Ages 8–17
Ungdata gives sleep duration by sex and grade. Junior and adolescent figures ask different questions and cannot be merged into one continuous time series.
Description: Direct, limited comparability
Adolescents and adults
Ungdata reports unwanted sexual touching by sex; information about sexual assault centres concerns healthcare contact and service organisation.
Description: Several distinct types of statistics
Reproductive years and postpartum
Figures from the Abortion Registry, Statistics Norway and the Medical Birth Registry cover births, abortions, modes of delivery and selected pregnancy complications.
Description: Several published annual series
Adolescents and adults
Recorded gynaecological diagnoses and endometriosis are covered. Diagnostic registries do not measure everyone living with a condition.
Description: Limited to recorded healthcare contact
Adults and older adults
The Cervical Screening Programme has a long time series and historical county data. Exact 2025 county figures are still awaited from FHI. Mammography data are shown separately.
Description: Direct, one documented data gap
Multiple adult life stages
GP services, urgent care, the Norwegian Patient Registry and waiting times are included. Several overall series cover both sexes and do not alone show differences for women.
Description: Statistics available, sex breakdown varies
Adults, menopause and older adults
Life expectancy, health loss, healthy life years, sickness absence and social inequalities are addressed. No separate menopause-specific statistical series has been identified in the index.
Description: Broad topic, not complete life-stage coverage
Cross-cutting
International data on sex in clinical trials, Research Council mapping and a project register are already available.
Description: Cross-cutting research and funding data
These are not established gaps in scientific research. They are areas where we have not identified a separate, comparable statistics series in the published index, or where a particular source value is missing. Original sources must be investigated before any new figures are published.
Ages 8–17
No separate statistical series on school absence associated with menstrual symptoms is recorded in the published index. The topic is already relevant to the research questions.
Possible next step: First map original Norwegian sources, populations, sex and age, and the definition of absence before publishing figures.
View related existing contentAges 8–12
The index covers wellbeing, loneliness and school environments, but contains no separate published series on puberty-related health symptoms.
Possible next step: Investigate whether representative Norwegian data appropriate to these ages exist. Do not assume the question is unanswered in research.
View related existing contentMenopause
General health, screening and health-loss series are recorded, but there is no separate overview of symptoms or healthcare needs during menopause.
Possible next step: Investigate whether menopause data have comparable definitions, age groups and representative populations.
View related existing contentPregnancy and postpartum
Births and medical complications are well represented, while no separate postpartum mental-health series has been identified in the index.
Possible next step: Check available original sources and distinguish self-reported symptoms from recorded diagnoses.
View related existing contentAdulthood and older adulthood
Existing overall series describe service activity, but some do not report separate values for women and men.
Possible next step: Map available sex and age dimensions before making new comparisons. Retain overall series as context only when justified.
View related existing contentAdulthood
FHI has published the county figure, but exact machine-readable county values are not available in the verified dataset.
Possible next step: A request was sent to FHI on 4 November 2026. Do not use visually estimated or inferred percentages.
View related existing contentMapping of published Insight pages and related components in GitHub. The search index records topic, life stage, source and available breakdowns. This is not a complete review of all Norwegian or international data sources.
The map is based on 48 indexed entries for existing statistics, not a count of all figures, source tables or data fields. Each entry has one main topic but may be associated with multiple life stages. An empty cell must never be interpreted as 'no research exists'.