1 Antibiotics to outpatients in Norway – assessing effect of 1 latitude and municipality population size using quantile 2 regression in a cross sectional study 3 4 Pål Haugen 1 , Gunnar Skov Simonsen 2,3 , Raul Primicerio 4 , Anne-Sofie Furberg 2,5 and 5 Lars Småbrekke 4* 6 1 Recogni AS; 2 Department of Microbiology and Infection Control, University 7 Hospital of North Norway; 3 Research Group for Host-Microbe Interaction, 8 Department of Medical Biology, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway; 9 4 Department of Pharmacy, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway; 5 Department of 10 Community Medicine, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway. 11 *Corresponding author: Lars Småbrekke Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health 12 Sciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, 9037 Tromsø Norway 13 E-mail: 14 Pål Haugen: paal@recogni.no 15 Gunnar Skov Simonsen: gunnar.skov.simonsen@unn.no 16 Raul Primicerio: raul.primicerio@uit.no 17 Anne-Sofie Furberg: anne-sofie.furberg@uit.no 18 Lars Småbrekke: lars.smabrekke@uit.no 19