Study title

Municipal Managers' Views on the Foundation for Municipal Development 1996

Dataset ID Number

FSD1122

Persistent identifiers

https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD1122
https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd1122

Data Type

Quantitative

Authors

• Foundation for Municipal Development

Abstract

The study examined the perceptions and views of Finnish municipal managers on the Foundation for Municipal Development. The data comprises the responses of a hundred municipal managers to questions about the Foundation and material produced by it.

First, notions of the Foundation's goals, sources of funding and total staff were charted. Further, perceptions of the publications and research by the Foundation were surveyed. The respondents were asked from which sources they had received information about the Foundation that had affected their perceptions of it, how they perceived the Foundation in general, and how familiar they were with the publications by the Foundation.

Views were studied on how useful the Foundation's activities were for the development of municipalities and municipal research. Satisfaction with the Foundation in terms of visibility to the public, publications, and promotion of activities among municipal managers was charted. Finally, the respondents were asked how well a number of descriptions fit the Foundation (e.g. "behind its time", "socially responsible") and whether the Foundation was too oriented towards a certain political party.

Background variables included the respondent's gender, municipality size and the region in which the municipality is located.

Keywords

administration; administrative structures; local government; organizations

Topic Classification

• Social sciences (Fields of Science Classification)
• Government, political systems and organisations (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Business/industrial management and organisation (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Series

Individual datasets

Distributor

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Access

The dataset is (A) openly available for all users without registration (CC BY 4.0).

Data Collector

• Gallup Finland

Data Producers

• Foundation for Municipal Development

Time Period Covered

1996

Collection Dates

1996

Nation

Finland

Geographical Coverage

Finland

Analysis/Observation Unit Type

Individual

Universe

Municipal managers in Finland

Time Method

Cross-section

Sampling Procedure

Information not available

Collection Mode

Telephone interview

Research Instrument

Structured questionnaire

Data File Language

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

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Data Version

1.0

Completeness of Data and Restrictions

The FSD does not possess a copy of the report produced on the data. The data description is based solely on the data and questionnaire and is thus incomplete in terms of information on sampling and data collection.

A variable containing data on the respondents' municipalities has been removed during archiving. Question charting the province in which the municipality is located is not available in the original form presented in the questionnaire but is recoded as a categorical region variable with three regions, Southern, Central and Northern Finland, as categories.

Weighting

There are no weight variables in the data.

Citation Requirement

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Bibliographical Citation

Foundation for Municipal Development: Municipal Managers' Views on the Foundation for Municipal Development 1996 [dataset]. Version 1.0 (2013-06-24). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD1122

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Disclaimer

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