FSD1154 Networking of Welfare Providers 1994: Municipalities

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Study title

Networking of Welfare Providers 1994: Municipalities

Dataset ID Number

FSD1154

Persistent identifier

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD1154

Data Type

Quantitative

Authors

  • Finnish Federation for Social Welfare and Health (STKL)

Abstract

The aim of the study was to investigate whether welfare service providers could set up flexible regional support networks. The respondents were asked whether the municipality's social services sector had been administratively united with other sectors. One theme covered changes within the respondents' organisation in administration, personnel numbers, service structure, service privatisation, co-operation with other operators, etc. The respondents evaluated how central certain managerial issues (e.g. motivation of personnel, ensuring present service production, organisation's image) were in their organisation. They were asked whether social and health services had been prioritised, and by whom. One question asked whether any municipal welfare services were under consideration to be discontinued or had been discontinued, and which body did/could take care of these services afterwards.

The respondents rated the present and future importance of various operators in the production of welfare services. One topic covered the co-operation between the municipality and other operators (e.g. non-governmental organisations, parishes, social and health enterprises) regarding different client groups. Client groups mentioned included the elderly, homeless, unemployed, drug and alcohol addicts, chronically ill, and persons with mental problems. The respondents were asked whether there were any new groups for whom there were no services. The respondents' professional status was charted.

Background variables included the respondent's province, the socio-economic situation of the municipality (according to a categorisation derived from statistical variables), and the municipality's occupational structure.

Keywords

cooperation; health services; municipalities; networks; priorization; privatization; public services; social services; social welfare; voluntary organizations; voluntary work

Topic Classification

Series

Individual datasets

Distributor

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Access

The dataset is (B) available for research, teaching and study.

Data Collector

  • Finnish Federation for Social Welfare and Health

Time Period Covered

1993 – 1994

Collection Dates

1993-11 – 1994-01

Nation

Finland

Geographical Coverage

Finland

Analysis/Observation Unit Type

Political-administrative area (Municipality)

Universe

Finnish municipalities (excluding the Åland Islands)

Time Method

Cross-section

Sampling Procedure

Total universe/Complete enumeration

The number of municipalities participating in the survey was 251; at the time of the survey Finland had 439 municipalities (excluding the Åland Island municipalities).

Collection Mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Paper

Research Instrument

Semi-structured questionnaire

Response Rate

57

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Data Version

1.1

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FSD1152 Networking of Welfare Providers 1994: Municipal Projects

FSD1153 Networking of Welfare Providers 1994: Non-Governmental Organisations

Completeness of Data and Restrictions

1) The questionnaire contains several open-ended question but there are no variables for the majority of them in the data. 2) Question 14 consists of three similar parts, each beginning with an open-ended question asking the respondent to name a service that the municipality has discontinued or could discontinue. The responses to these open-ended questions have been categorised into variables with seven service groups. Next, question 14 lists eleven different operators who do/could take care of the discontinued service. The respondent can choose one or more. For each operator a dichotomous variable has been constructed (0=not chosen and 1=chosen). By themselves, these variables do not tell which particular service the operator in question does or could take care of, and therefore they need to be cross-tabulated with the service variables constructed from the responses to the open-ended questions.

Responses to many open-ended questions are missing.

Weighting

There are no weight variables in the data.

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Bibliographical Citation

Finnish Federation for Social Welfare and Health (STKL): Networking of Welfare Providers 1994: Municipalities [dataset]. Version 1.1 (2004-03-31). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD1154

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Users of the data shall send the Suomen sosiaali ja terveys ry (SOSTE) a copy of all reports, theses, articles, other publications or material based on or using the data. If printed, to the mail address: SOSTE Suomen sosiaali ja terveys ry, Tutkimus, Yliopistonkatu 5, 00100 HELSINKI, FINLAND. If electronic, to the e-mail address: tutkimus@soste.fi.

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Eronen, Anne & Hokkanen, Liisa & Kinnunen, Petri & Lehto-Pusa, Päivi & Rönnberg, Leif & Särkelä, Riitta (1995). Hyvinvoinnin verkostoja näkyvissä: kuntien ja järjestöjen näkemyksiä sosiaalisen tuen tuottamisesta. Helsinki: Sosiaaliturvan keskusliitto Hyvinvoinnin tukiverkostot julkaisuja; 1.

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