Spring 2006 NOVA carried out a new comprehensive youth survey in Oslo with 11500 participants – ten years after the first one. The purpose of this report is to discuss living conditions, challenges and elements of risk among youngsters in different parts of Oslo. In additions the report discusses changes that have taken place during the last 10 years.

The main themes have been family conditions, different kinds of criminal behaviour, drug and alcohol abuse, poverty, how the students adapt and manage school, and health related questions. 
Further this report discusses differences and effects of distributions. Are living conditions, health, way of life, possibilities and chances still unequally distributed – not only between different social groups, but also between different geographic areas and parts of the city?

A superior main is that youngsters, with a few exceptions, have been less aggressive and revolting and socially more adapted during the last ten years. This feature occurs in a number of contexts. The teenagers use less drugs and alcohol, commit less crime, behave better at school, are more attached to the neighbourhood where they live, and they have better relationship to their parents.
At the same time there is nothing which indicates that the gap between east and west Oslo has been narrowed. Quite contrary, the contrasts between different groups of young people have increased based on geographic lines of demarcations. In particular there is a strengthening of a separate inner-city approach. The feature confirms that it may be suitable to use two geographic dimensions in analysing differences between different local communities in Oslo-east and west and centre and periphery.