Study title

Teacher Victimisation in Finland 1997

Dataset ID Number

FSD1214

Persistent identifiers

https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD1214
https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd1214

Data Type

Quantitative

Authors

• Kivivuori, Janne (National Research Institute of Legal Policy (Optula))

Abstract

The survey charted anti-social behaviour and violence against teachers and teacher attitudes towards young people's criminal behaviour. Teachers were asked to what extent they agreed with a number of statements relating to young people's criminal behaviour, its causes and methods for reducing this type of behaviour. They also rated the objectives of the basic education system. Opinions were charted on how much certain things (e.g. truancy, shyness, hashish use) would reflect on the future 15-year-olds and which factors caused young people to break the law.

Teachers were asked whether they had been subjected to verbal abuse, sexual harassment, physical violence or other disruptive behaviour or had been threatened with physical violence. If mental or physical abuse had occurred, further questions clarified the number of incidents during the school year 1996-1997, the location of the latest incident, sex, age and grade level of the perpetrator and the consequences for the perpetrator. Some questions asked whether the assailant has used or threatened to use a weapon and whether the behaviour had reflected the pupil's mental problems.

Background variables included respondents' sex, age, teaching experience, form taught, distance from home to school, province of the school and municipality type.

Keywords

antisocial behaviour; assault; harassment; juvenile delinquency; lower secondary schools; schoolchildren; secondary school teachers; sexual harassment; teaching profession; workplace bullying; youth

Topic Classification

• Social sciences (Fields of Science Classification)
• Youth (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Compulsory and pre-school education (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Crime and law enforcement (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Working conditions (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Series

Individual datasets

Distributor

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Access

The dataset is (C) available only for research including master's theses.

Data Collector

• Kainulainen, Heini (National Research Institute of Legal Policy)
• Kivivuori, Janne (National Research Institute of Legal Policy)

Data Producers

• National Research Institute of Legal Policy

Time Period Covered

1997

Collection Dates

1997-05-01 – 1997-05-15

Nation

Finland

Geographical Coverage

Finland

Analysis/Observation Unit Type

Individual

Universe

Teachers in lower secondary schools in Finnish-speaking municipalities

Time Method

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Sampling Procedure

Probability: Stratified

The schools participating in the survey were randomly selected from municipal lower secondary schools in Finnish-speaking municipalities (excluding Swedish-speaking municipalities). First, Finland was stratified into 12 regions: provinces (according to the previous province division) and the metropolitan area. From each province one city/town, one densely populated municipality and one rural municipality were selected and then one school selected from each municipality. In addition, one school was selected from the biggest city of each province. The metropolitan area was represented by the four schools selected for the year 1995 sample: two from Helsinki and one from Espoo and Vantaa each.

Collection Mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Paper

Research Instrument

Structured questionnaire

Response Rate

62.3

Data File Language

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Data Version

1.0

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Completeness of Data and Restrictions

The variable identifying the school has been removed and replaced with province and municipality type variables. The responses to open-ended questions 31, 38, 46 and 56 are missing; likewise the responses to open-ended categories of questions 30, 37, 43, 45, 54, 55, 61.

Weighting

The data contain a weigh variable w97, constructed by dividing the population of each stratum by the number of respondents in that stratum.

Citation Requirement

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Bibliographical Citation

Kivivuori, Janne (National Research Institute of Legal Policy (Optula)): Teacher Victimisation in Finland 1997 [dataset]. Version 1.0 (2003-08-14). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD1214

Deposit Requirement

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Special Terms and Conditions for Access

Users of the data shall send the Institute of Criminology and Legal Policy a copy of all reports, articles, other publications or unpublished theses based on or using the data. The copies shall be sent to the mail address: Department of Social Research, Institute of Criminology and Legal Policy, Janne Kivivuori, P.O. Box 10, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, FINLAND.

Disclaimer

The original data creators and the archive bear no responsibility for any results or interpretations arising from the reuse of the data.

Related Publications

Kivivuori, Janne (1997). Opettajiin kohdistuva häirintä ja väkivalta. Helsinki: Oikeuspoliittinen tutkimuslaitos. Oikeuspoliittisen tutkimuslaitoksen tutkimustiedonantoja; 33.