R scripts for: Social Belonging, Mattering and NEET Status: Understanding Loneliness in Emerging Adulthood in Norwaydoi:10.18710/JXSM22DataverseNO2026-06-011Bauger, Lars, 2026, "R scripts for: Social Belonging, Mattering and NEET Status: Understanding Loneliness in Emerging Adulthood in Norway", https://doi.org/10.18710/JXSM22, DataverseNO, V1R scripts for: Social Belonging, Mattering and NEET Status: Understanding Loneliness in Emerging Adulthood in Norwaydoi:10.18710/JXSM22Bauger, LarsUniversity of South-Eastern NorwayDataverseNOUniversity of South-Eastern NorwayLars BaugerBauger, Lars2026-05-26Medicine, Health and Life SciencesSocial SciencesEmerging adulthoodLonelinessNEETMatteringR scriptThis dataset contains two R scripts used for data preparation and statistical analysis in the study "Social Belonging, Mattering and NEET Status: Understanding Loneliness in Emerging Adulthood in Norway" (Bauger, in press). The scripts reproduce all descriptive statistics, LOESS figures, correlation matrices, and regression models reported in the manuscript. Analyses are based on data from the Norwegian Counties Public Health Survey (NCPHS, 2021) among respondents aged 18–29 (N = 3,933; regression model N = 3,783). The underlying survey data are not included and must be obtained separately through a formal application to the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH/FHI)<a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0">CC0 1.0</a>Bauger, L. & Hagen, S. (in press). Social Belonging, Mattering and NEET Status: Understanding Loneliness in Emerging Adulthood in Norway. International Journal of Adolescence and Youth. DOI: [DOI OF ARTICLE]Bauger, L. & Hagen, S. (in press). Social Belonging, Mattering and NEET Status: Understanding Loneliness in Emerging Adulthood in Norway. International Journal of Adolescence and Youth. DOI: [DOI OF ARTICLE]00_README.txtdocumentation filetext/plain01_data_preparation.RR script for data cleaning and construction of composite scale scores. Must be run before 02_analysis.R. Reads fhus_vtfk.sav (not included) and writes data/df_clean.Rdatype/x-r-syntax02_analysis.R R script for all analyses, figures, and tables reported in the manuscript. Reads data/df_clean.Rda produced by 01_data_preparation.R. Writes regression and correlation output files to the results/ subfolder. Plot output (ggsave) calls are commented out and must be enabled manually. type/x-r-syntax