Study title

Finnish Local Government Barometer 1996: Municipal Managers, Chairmen of Municipal Executive Boards

Dataset ID Number

FSD1121

Persistent identifiers

https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD1121
https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd1121

Data Type

Quantitative

Authors

• Foundation for Municipal Development

Abstract

Chairpersons of municipal executive boards and municipal managers were asked about the correlation between local tax rate and the standard of municipal services. The respondents evaluated whether there was any need to cut services, and if so, which services. They were also asked whether municipalities should be responsible for financing job creation schemes and employing people through these schemes.

Opinions on the functionality of information exchange between government bodies and municipalities were canvassed. The usefulness of certain national and regional bodies (e.g. various ministries and other governmental bodies, universities) to the respondents' municipality was studied. The respondents also evaluated the characteristics and activities of regional councils and their leaders.

Background variables included the respondents' sex, status in municipal administration, municipality size, region, and province.

Keywords

employment programmes; local finance; local government; local taxation; municipal government; municipalities; public sector; public services

Topic Classification

• Social sciences (Fields of Science Classification)
• Elites and leadership (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Government, political systems and organisations (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Series

Finnish Local Government Barometers

Distributor

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Access

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

Data Collector

• Gallup Finland

Data Producers

• Foundation for Municipal Development

Time Period Covered

1996

Collection Dates

1996-05-27 – 1996-07-02

Nation

Finland

Geographical Coverage

Finland

Analysis/Observation Unit Type

Individual

Universe

Managers of Finnish municipalities and chairpersons of municipal executive boards (excluding Swedish-speaking municipalities)

Time Method

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Sampling Procedure

Total universe/Complete enumeration

Collection Mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Paper

Research Instrument

Structured questionnaire

Response Rate

Municipal managers: 81

Chairpersons of municipal executive boards: 59

Data File Language

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Data Version

2.0

Weighting

There are no weight variables in the data.

Citation Requirement

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Bibliographical Citation

Foundation for Municipal Development: Finnish Local Government Barometer 1996: Municipal Managers, Chairmen of Municipal Executive Boards [dataset]. Version 2.0 (2018-08-13). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD1121

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Disclaimer

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Related Publications

Kansalaismielipide ja kunnat: ilmapuntari 1996 (1996). Helsinki: Kunnallisalan kehittämissäätiö. Polemia-sarja; 21.

Blomberg, Helena & Kroll, Christian (1999). Who wants to preserve the "Scandinavian welfare state"? Attitudes to welfare services among the citizens and local government elites in Finland 1992-96. In: The end of welfare state? Responses to state retrenchment (eds. Svallfors, S. & Taylor-Gooby, P.). London: Routledge. ESA studies in European Society.

Blomberg, Helena & Kroll, Christian (2003). Kuntalaiset, paikalliset päättäjät ja hyvinvointipalvelut 1990-luvulla. Teoksessa: Laman varjo ja nousun huuma (toim. Olli Kangas). Helsinki: Kansaneläkelaitos. Sosiaali- ja terveysturvan tutkimuksia; 72.

Katara, Henna-Riikka (2012). Hyvinvointivaltion kannatus ja palvelujärjestelmä. Kuntalaisten ja kunnanjohtajien mielipiteiden vertailua vuosina 1996-2006. Turku: Turun yliopisto. Sosiaalipolitiikan pro gradu -tutkielma