Ministries (i_departementer)

The table contains data about the ministries. The data quality is generally good. The variables are as follows:

Identification number (dep_id)

Continuous internal identifier. Example: Ministry of Petroleum and Energy (of 1997) is 90.

Government's identifier (reg_id)

The government's own identifier. This was published at data.regjeringen.no before the website closed. Afterwards, we can generate it by card name and creation date: DEP_<yyyy>_<yyyy>_<mm>_<dd>, but choose not to since this should be the government's domain. Example: The Ministry of Petroleum and Energy (of 1997) is 'DEP_OED_1997_01_01'.

Short name (kortnavn)

This is the common abbreviation by which each ministry is known. Not all ministries have an abbreviation, especially not the oldest ones, and if there is none, the name is written here in full. The abbreviations are only unique within the same time period. For example, HD can stand for the Ministry of Trade (Handelsdepartementet) (1947-1955) and the Ministry of Health (Helsedepartementet) (2002-2003).

Full name (navn)

Name of the department.

English name (navn_en)

The department's English name. Not sure if this always is official.

Date of establishment (fra_dato)

The date the ministry was established.

End date (til_dato)

The date when the ministry was closed. For existing ministries, the to_ date is set to 09-09-9999. As a rule, the end date is set to the day before the establishment date of the new ministry.

Validity (gyldig)

Is usually 1, but 0 if it concerns an invalid ministry such as the NS ministries during World War II.

Area of responsibility (ansvarsområde)

May be completed, possibly in HTML format.

Historical_commentary (historisk_kommentar)

Relatively long explanatory text.