Study title

Finnish Working Life Barometer 2004

Dataset ID Number

FSD2666

Persistent identifiers

https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2666
https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd2666

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 psychosocial working environment, job characteristics, pay systems, satisfaction with the job, employment security, training and development, capacity to work, and bullying and discrimination at work. The year 2004 survey contained more questions than previously on workplace characteristics, pay systems, willingness to give up work, bullying and violence.

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 and contracts 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. Incidents of bullying and violence were charted.

Next set of questions covered autonomy and influence at work, overtime and its compensation, and membership in a trade union or professional association. Changes over the past year in workload, physical or mental stress, in access to training, support from supervisors etc were charted as well as pay systems and satisfaction with the workplace. 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. Other questions covered workplace characteristics and the respondents' participation in job-related training and development. The respondents 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, illnesses, and estimate of own mental and physical capacity to work. The respondents were asked whether they would be willing to give up work. Discrimination at work based on ethnic group, age, gender or contract type was explored.

Background variables included the respondent's gender, age, type of municipality, major region (NUTS2), region (NUTS3), occupational group, status in employment, industry of employment, employer type, economic activity, weekly working hours, additional jobs, industry of additional job, and basic and vocational education. Most background variables were obtained from the Labour Force Survey 2004 telephone interviews.

Keywords

autonomy at work; discrimination; employees; job characteristics; job satisfaction; job security; occupational training; personnel management; personnel policy; wages; workers participation; 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

2004

Collection Dates

2004-09-06 – 2004-10-06

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 2004. ISSN=1798-7857. Helsinki: Statistics Finland.

Sampling Procedure

Probability: Simple random

Simple random sample from the population register. For its Labour Force Survey 2004, 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

86.2

Data File Language

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Number of Cases and Variables

129 variables and 1212 cases.

Data Version

3.0

Related Datasets

FSD2749 Finnish Working Life Barometer: Local Government Employees 2004

Completeness of Data and Restrictions

The variable identifying the municipality of residence has been removed from the data.

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 2004 [dataset]. Version 3.0 (2018-07-27). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2666

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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 Materials

Ylöstalo, Pekka (2005). Työolobarometri. Lokakuu 2004. Helsinki: Työministeriö. http://www.mol.fi/mol/fi/99_pdf/fi/06_tyoministerio/06_julkaisut/10_muut/tyoolobarometri2004.pdf [viitattu 8.9.2011].

Related Publications

Kunta-alan työolobarometri 2004. Työministeriön työolobarometrin 2004 kuntatyöpaikkojen osatarkastelu (2005) [verkkodokumentti]. Helsinki: Työturvallisuuskeskus, kuntaryhmä. Saatavilla: http://www.ttk.fi/files/92/kuntabaro2004.pdf [viitattu 13.7.2012].

Ylöstalo, Pekka (2005). Työolobarometri. Lokakuu 2004. Helsinki: Työministeriö.

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

Hörkkö, Eeva & Silvennoinen, Heikki & Järvinen,Tero (2022). Työssä oppimisen mahdollisuudet ja luottamus palkansaajien kokemina Suomessa vuosina 2004-2016. Työelämän tutkimus 20 (3), (forthcoming). https://doi.org/10.37455/tt.102922