Study title

Networking of Welfare Providers 1994: Non-Governmental Organisations

Dataset ID Number

FSD1153

Persistent identifier

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD1153

Data Type

Quantitative

Authors

• Finnish Federation for Social Welfare and Health (STKL)

Abstract

The survey studied the present state of networking in welfare service production by non-governmental social and health organisations. At first, the respondents were asked about the nature of their organisation, the number of members, the number of employed personnel, organisation income and expenditure (in Finnish marks), and the background of individual members and their reasons for joining. Some questions covered past, current and planned changes in the organisation and its service production, and how central certain issues were within the organisation (e.g. administration, co-operation with other bodies, organisation image, service development). Opinions on how vital voluntary work was for the activities of organisation were probed.

The respondents were asked what are the most important welfare services provided by their organisation, by municipal social and health services, other non-governmental organisations, or the Social Insurance Institution, etc. Services provided by the organisation and their priorisation were investigated. One theme focused on the services that the organisation had discontinued, and which bodies could/did take care of them after that. The respondents were also asked whether the organisation had done/would do something to ensure that the discontinued services would be provided by somebody. The organisation's willingness to take on additional service production was charted. The respondents rated the importance of various bodies within the field of welfare service production. Current and future development projects and the existence of a long-term strategy were studied, likewise the respondents' opinions on the future of the organisation.

Background variables contained information about organisation type.

Keywords

networks; social policy; social services; social welfare; social work; third sector; voluntary organizations; voluntary work

Topic Classification

• Social sciences (Fields of Science Classification)
• Social welfare policy (CESSDA 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

Organization/Institution

Universe

Finnish social and health organisations

Time Method

Cross-section

Sampling Procedure

Total universe/Complete enumeration

Selected organisations operated in the social welfare sector both nationally and regionally. The organisations were selected on these grounds from the register of the Co-operative Association of Social and Health Organisations. The number of selected organisations was 155, and 93 responded.

Collection Mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Paper

Research Instrument

Semi-structured questionnaire

Response Rate

60

Data File Language

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Data Version

1.0

Related Datasets

FSD1152 Networking of Welfare Providers 1994: Municipal Projects

FSD1154 Networking of Welfare Providers 1994: Municipalities

Completeness of Data and Restrictions

The variables connected to the question 20 are problematic. Question 20 began with an open-ended subquestion asking which services the organisation has discontinued or could discontinue, but the responses are missing from the data. Therefore it is not know which services the respondents are commenting on and, consequently, which services other bodies listed in the question do/could take care of.

Responses to 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: Non-Governmental Organisations [dataset]. Version 1.0 (2002-04-11). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD1153

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Related Publications

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.