Study title

Finnish Local Government 2004: Social Services for Elderly and Disabled 1997: Local Government Officers

Dataset ID Number

FSD2170

Persistent identifiers

https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2170
https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd2170

Data Type

Quantitative

Authors

• University of Vaasa. Faculty of Public Administration

Abstract

The dataset is part of the social and health services research in the Finnish Local Government 2004 research programme. The research studied administration, service provision, and development policies of home help and municipal services for the elderly and the disabled. The respondents were local government officers responsible for services for the elderly and the disabled and home help services in research municipalities. Social services for the elderly and the disabled have also been researched in 2000 and 2002.

First, the respondents were asked some basic information about service provision in their municipality. Questions covered the number of clients and the number of service performances in institutional care, supported living, transportation services and home help services. Further questions covered the number of individuals in the care of their family members and the number of individuals participating in integration or supported employment. The costs of the care for the elderly, care for the disabled and home help were investigated as well as the funding for service provision. The number of staff in different service tasks and the percentage of family care in the social services for the elderly and disabled were charted.

The service provision of municipal services for the elderly and the disabled was investigated with questions focusing on who were responsible for providing different services, whether services had been put out to tender, whether the respondents were satisfied with the functionality of the services, which municipal bodies made the decisions concerning the use of purchased services and the provider of those services, and whether the respondents' municipality sold home services and services for the elderly and disabled to other municipalities. Questions were also asked about the management of services for the elderly and disabled (e.g. the importance of different bodies in decision making, whether any surveys or interviews had been conducted to assess/improve services and the importance of performance measurement in service provision).

In the final section, the development policy regarding service provision was surveyed. The respondents were asked whether the services had changed after 1992 in terms of the number of clients, financial resources, provision of private services, cooperation between municipalities etc, how they would rate different aspects of the services (number of staff, location and accessiblity of the services...) and on which areas the development of services should be focused in the following years.

Background variables included, among others, municipality, the respondent's mother tongue, year of birth, job title, job experience, level of education and positions of responsibility.

Keywords

care of the disabled; care of the elderly; decision making; development; health services; home help; local government; local government officers; local government services; management; social services

Topic Classification

• Social sciences (Fields of Science Classification)
• Government, political systems and organisations (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Specific social services: use and availability (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Social welfare systems/structures (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Series

Finnish Local Government 2004

Distributor

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Access

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

Data Collector

• University of Vaasa. Faculty of Public Administration

Data Producers

• Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities

Time Period Covered

1997

Collection Dates

Spring 1997 ( 1997 )

Nation

Finland

Geographical Coverage

Finland

Analysis/Observation Unit Type

Political-administrative area (Municipality)

Universe

Finland (excluding the Åland Islands)

Time Method

Cross-section

Sampling Procedure

Probability: Multistage

Two-stage stratified sampling in selecting project municipalities.

The project municipalities were selected separately from those with less than 10,000 inhabitants (28 municipalities) and from those with more than 10,000 inhabitants (19 municipalities). The selection aimed to be representative within both groups in relation to all municipalities with the same population size. Large municipalities were over-represented because 70% of the Finnish population lives in large municipalities. Representativeness criteria included regional location, age and education of the population, industry structure, municipal economy parameters, political situation, and variables related to municipal policy. The selected municipalities form a small scale model of all Finnish municipalities. The Åland Islands municipalities were excluded because of special features resulting from Åland's autonomy.

120 questionnaires were sent and 89 returned.

Collection Mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Paper

Research Instrument

Structured questionnaire

Response Rate

74

Data File Language

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Data Version

2.0

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FSD2172 Finnish Local Government 2004: Social Services for Elderly and Disabled 1997: Managers of Service Institutions

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FSD2174 Finnish Local Government 2004: Social Services for Elderly and Disabled 2000: Managers of Service Institutions

FSD2175 Finnish Local Government 2004: Social Services for Elderly and Disabled 2002: Local Government Officers

FSD2176 Finnish Local Government 2004: Social Services for Elderly and Disabled 2002: Managers of Service Institutions

Weighting

There are no weight variables in the data.

Citation Requirement

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Bibliographical Citation

University of Vaasa: Finnish Local Government 2004: Social Services for Elderly and Disabled 1997: Local Government Officers [dataset]. Version 2.0 (2018-07-20). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2170

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Disclaimer

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Related Materials

Laaksonen, Hannele & Leskinen, Anne (1999). Vanhusten ja vammaisten sosiaalipalvelut muutoksessa? Helsinki: Suomen Kuntaliitto. KuntaSuomi 2004 -tutkimuksia; 17.

Related Publications

Laaksonen, Hannele & Leskinen, Anne (1999). Vanhusten ja vammaisten sosiaalipalvelut muutoksessa? Helsinki: Suomen Kuntaliitto. KuntaSuomi 2004 -tutkimuksia; 17.