Study title

Finnish Working Life Barometer 2000

Dataset ID Number

FSD2662

Persistent identifier

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2662

Data Type

Quantitative

Authors

• Ministry of Labour
• Statistics Finland

Abstract

The annual survey studied employee opinion on the quality of working life in Finland. Main themes were job characteristics, work environment, conflicts at the workplace, influence over decisions, working hours, wages, employment security and equality. The year 2000 survey contained new questions on discrimination, capacity to work, and immigrant co-workers.

First, the respondents were asked how many years they had worked for the employer they were working for at the time, type of contract, number of persons at the workplace, what kind of changes there had been in staff numbers, working hours, contracts and organisational structure over the past 12 months, and whether people had been transferred to other units. Further questions covered team work, and whether there had been conflicts at the workplace, between what groups and whether the conflicts had decreased or increased over the past 12 months. Staff qualifications and requirements, employee influence over, for instance, workload and tasks, and changes in the degree of influence were investigated as well as trade union influence and R's membership in a trade union or a professional association.

Next set of questions covered overtime at work, overtime compensation, and changes over the past year in workload, physical or mental stress, in access to training etc. Wage level and pay systems were charted. One topic pertained to whether the respondents had presented any ideas to improve working conditions, products, services or working methods at the workplace and whether there had been other development initiatives. They were asked how likely it was that they would be dismissed or laid off, or their tasks or working hours would be changed over the next year.

Opinions were charted on employment situation in Finland and what kind of changes were happening in working life in, for instance, relating to management style, possibility to influence decisions, the financial situation of their organisation. A number of questions investigated how the employees' capacity to work and occupational health and safety had been taken into account at the workplace, the respondents' sickness absences, and estimate of own mental and physical capacity to work. Discrimination at work based on ethnic group, age or gender was explored as well as experiences of immigrant co-workers. Finally, the respondents were asked whether they had done work from home or somewhere else outside of workplace (telework).

Background variables included the respondent's gender, age, degree of urbanisation of the municipality of residence, region, occupational group, status in employment, industry of employment, employer type, weekly working hours, additional jobs, industry of additional job, and basic and vocational education. Most background variables were obtained from the Labour Force Survey 2000 telephone interviews.

Keywords

autonomy at work; discrimination; employees; job characteristics; job security; job security; personnel management; personnel policy; telework; wages; working conditions; workloads

Topic Classification

• Social sciences (Fields of Science Classification)
• Social behaviour and attitudes (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Equality, inequality and social exclusion (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Employment (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Labour relations/conflict (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Working conditions (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Occupational health (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Series

Finnish Working Life Barometers

Distributor

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Access

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

Data Collector

• Statistics Finland

Time Period Covered

2000

Collection Dates

2000-09 – 2000-10

Nation

Finland

Geographical Coverage

Finland

Analysis/Observation Unit Type

Individual

Universe

Finnish-speaking employees aged 18 - 64 who worked at least 10 hours a week

Time Method

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Data Sources

Official Statistics of Finland (OSF): Labour force survey 2000. Helsinki: Statistics Finland.

Sampling Procedure

Probability: Simple random

Simple random sample from the population register. For its Labour Force Survey 2000, Statistics Finland drew a random sample of people aged between 15 - 74 and living in Finland. From the Labour Force Survey sample, Finnish-speaking employees aged 18 - 64 who had responded being employed for at least 10 hours a week were selected for the Working Life Barometer.

Collection Mode

Telephone interview: Computer-assisted (CATI)

Research Instrument

Structured questionnaire

Response Rate

87.3

Data File Language

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

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Number of Cases and Variables

120 variables and 1166 cases.

Data Version

3.0

Related Datasets

FSD2745 Finnish Working Life Barometer: Local Government Employees 2000

Completeness of Data and Restrictions

Variable k29b has been removed due to unknown coding.

Weighting

There are no weight variables in the data.

Citation Requirement

The data and its creators shall be cited in all publications and presentations for which the data have been used. The bibliographic citation may be in the form suggested by the archive or in the form required by the publication.

Bibliographical Citation

Ministry of Labour & Statistics Finland: Finnish Working Life Barometer 2000 [dataset]. Version 3.0 (2018-07-27). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2662

Deposit Requirement

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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

Ylöstalo, Pekka (2001). Työolobarometri. Lokakuu 2000. Helsinki: Työministeriö. Työpoliittinen tutkimus; 228.

Kunta-alan työolobarometri 2000. Työministeriön työolobarometrin 2000 kuntatyöpaikkojen osatarkastelu (2001). Helsinki: Työturvallisuuskeskus, kuntaryhmä.

Alasoini, Tuomo (2006). Työnteon mielekkyyden muutos Suomessa vuosina 1992 - 2005. Työolobarometrin aineistoihin perustuva analyysi. Helsinki: Työministeriö. Työelämän kehittämisohjelman Tykesin raportteja 45.

Koivula, Aki (2014). Joustavien työaikajärjestelyjen jakaantuminen Suomessa. Palkansaaja- ja organisaatiotason tarkastelua vuosina 2000 ja 2010. Turku: Turun yliopisto. Taloussosiologian pro gradu -tutkielma.

Nikula, Jouko (2016). Middle Class and Middle-class Jobs. Victims of Technological Progress? Sociological Problems. 2016 / Special issue 48/2016, 46-61. Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in conjunction with the Bulgarian SociologicalAssociation. ISSN: 0324-1572