Study title

ISSP 2015: Work Orientations IV: Finnish Data

Dataset ID Number

FSD3106

Persistent identifier

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3106

Data Type

Quantitative

Authors

• International Social Survey Programme (ISSP)
• Blom, Raimo (University of Tampere. School of Social Sciences and Humanities)
• Melin, Harri (University of Tampere. School of Social Sciences and Humanities)

Other Identification/Acknowledgements

• Borg, Sami (University of Tampere. Finnish Social Science Data Archive)
• Nieminen, Markku (Statistics Finland)

Abstract

The survey charted Finnish attitudes to work. The respondents were asked questions and presented statements about work, employment and occupational life.

The respondents were first asked questions about their employment situation, such as whether they were in paid work, how many hours they worked per week, whether they were an entrepreneur and in a supervisory position, what type of employer they had, and what their occupation was. The respondents who had a spouse or a partner were also asked these questions about their spouse's or partner's employment situation.

Opinions were charted on the importance of work in general and different aspects in work (e.g. good income, independence at work). Importance of family over work and work-family balance were surveyed as well as discrimination and harassment experienced at work. Views of the significance of trade unions were studied. The respondents were asked whether they would like to work longer or shorter hours, how often they felt their job was stressful and physically taxing, and how often they worked at home and during the weekends. A number of statements relating to current job were presented (e.g. "My job is secure"). Flexible working time arrangements were charted.

One set of questions surveyed participation in professional training, relationships at the workplace, satisfaction with the job, and commitment to occupation and employer. Relating to job change and unemployment, the respondents were asked about plans to change jobs, the ease of finding a new job, worries over losing job, and steps they would be prepared to take to avoid unemployment (e.g. accept a job with a lower salary). Side jobs were charted.

The respondents who did not have a paid job at the time of the survey were asked, among others, about the last time they had had a paid job, the reasons their last job had ended, satisfaction with last job, likelihood of finding a new job, steps taken to find a job, and their source of economic support. Finally, opinions were charted on whether the employment of people aged 60 and over was a positive or a negative thing.

Background variables included, among others, the respondent's gender, age, education, marital status, monthly gross income, type of municipality of residence, membership in a trade union, membership in a religious community, religious attendance, self-perceived social class, and party choice in the previous parliamentary elections.

Keywords

discrimination; employment; family life; hours of work; job satisfaction; labour and employment; occupational life; unemployment; working conditions; workloads

Topic Classification

• Social sciences (Fields of Science Classification)
• Working conditions (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Series

ISSP (International Social Survey Programme)

Distributor

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Access

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

Data Collector

• Statistics Finland

Data Producers

• University of Tampere. School of Social Sciences and Humanities
• Statistics Finland
• Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Time Period Covered

2015

Collection Dates

2015-09-22 – 2015-12-16

Nation

Finland

Geographical Coverage

Finland

Analysis/Observation Unit Type

Individual

Universe

People aged between 15 and 74 living in Finland

Time Method

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Sampling Procedure

Probability: Systematic random

Sorting order: municipality code and year of birth.

Sample size was 2,500 persons of whom 94.4% were Finnish-speaking and 5.6% Swedish-speaking. 1,203 questionnaires were returned. Non-response: a total of 1,297 persons of whom four refused, 16 had an unknown address and could not be reached, two had a language problem, one was ill or otherwise incapable of responding, three returned a blank questionnaire, and 1,271 did not respond for some other reason.

Collection Mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Paper

Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI)

Research Instrument

Structured questionnaire

Response Rate

48.1

Data File Language

Downloaded data package may contain different language versions of the same files.

The data files of this dataset are available in the following languages: Finnish.

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Data Version

2.0

Related Datasets

FSD2133 ISSP 2005: Work Orientations III: Finnish Data

Weighting

The data contain two weight variables, which were created using a calibration method in order to improve estimation efficiency and to correct for non-response bias. The weights are based on the following population distributions: 1) gender, 2) age groups (15-24, 25-34, ..., 65-74), 3) NUTS3 areas so that Greater Helsinki area was treated separately, and 4) municipality type (urban, semi-urban, rural). The first weight variable (bv4_1) weights the results to match the whole Finnish population (the sum of the weights equals the size of the Finnish population). The second weight variable (bv4_2) does not produce this kind of extension (the weighted mean is 1 and the sum equals the number of cases). Both variables are based on the same calibration process, only the scale is different.

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Bibliographical Citation

International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) & Blom, Raimo (University of Tampere) & Melin, Harri (University of Tampere): ISSP 2015: Work Orientations IV: Finnish Data [dataset]. Version 2.0 (2018-07-17). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3106

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