Study title

Child and Youth Welfare Policy Planning in Municipalities 2008-2009: Office-holder Group Interviews

Dataset ID Number

FSD2679

Persistent identifier

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2679

Data Type

Qualitative

Authors

• Määttä, Mirja (University of Eastern Finland. Department of Social Sciences)

Other Identification/Acknowledgements

• Härkönen, Hanna
• Suoranta, Kaisa

Abstract

In the study, municipal office-holders were interviewed about child and youth welfare policy planning and implementation. Opinions were probed on the planning obligation imposed by the law, role of the interviewees' own administrative sector in the planning, implementation and monitoring of such welfare policies, differences of view and focus between administrative sectors, what issues the policies should cover and what kind of impact they should have. The municipalities selected had been engaged in cross-sector planning of child and youth welfare policies. Altogether, there were 20 interviewees from five different municipalities. The data consist of transcriptions of the five group interviews.

The dataset is only available in Finnish.

Keywords

child protection; children; living conditions; local government; local government services; public administration; social welfare; welfare policy; youth; youth work

Topic Classification

• Social sciences (Fields of Science Classification)
• Specific social services: use and availability (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Children (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Youth (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

• Määttä, Mirja (University of Eastern Finland. Department of Social Sciences)

Time Period Covered

2008 – 2009

Collection Dates

2008-10-23 – 2009-04-21

Nation

Finland

Geographical Coverage

Finland

Analysis/Observation Unit Type

Event/Process/Activity

Universe

Municipal office-holders who were involved in local welfare planning for children and the youth

Time Method

Cross-section

Sampling Procedure

Non-probability: Purposive

Municipal office-holders involved in the planning of child and youth welfare policy in five municipalities were selected to be interviewed. Out of these municipalities, three had more than 100,000 inhabitants. In order to arrange the group interviews, youth work directors or the social services in each municipality were contacted.

Collection Mode

Focus group

Research Instrument

Interview scheme and/or themes

Data Files

Transcripts of 5 group interviews in RTF file format. Approximately 65 pages in total.

Data File Language

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

Qualitative data are available in their original language only and are not translated.

Data Version

1.0

Completeness of Data and Restrictions

The names of the interviewees were replaced by pseudonyms and names of any third parties mentioned by the interviewees were removed. Names of the interviewees' places of work were removed and the municipalities are referred to by using Statistics Finland classification of municipality types. Additionally, any indirect identifiers referring to the municipalities or places of work were anonymised.

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

Määttä, Mirja (University of Eastern Finland): Child and Youth Welfare Policy Planning in Municipalities 2008-2009: Office-holder Group Interviews [dataset]. Version 1.0 (2011-10-20). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2679

Deposit Requirement

Notify FSD of all publications where you have used the data by sending the citation information to user-services.fsd@tuni.fi.

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

Määttä, Mirja (2010) Lasten ja nuorten hyvinvointiin liittyvä suunnittelu kunnissa. Janus 18 (3), 243 - 259.

Määttä, Mirja (2010) Hahmottuuko lapsi-, nuoriso- ja lastensuojelupolitiikan kokonaisuus? Puheenvuoro. Nuorisotutkimus 3/2010. 95-97

Määttä, Mirja (2011) Koordinoidaan vaan verkostoja. Teoksessa: Paakkunainen, Kari & Suurpää, Leena (toim.) Nuorten poliittinen ohjaus - strategista johtamista, kentän kasvavaa yhteistyötä vai latistuvaa osallistumista? Nuorisotutkimusverkosto/Nuorisotutkimusseura, verkkojulkaisuja 43.

Tasanko, Pia (2010) "Kaikki ovet kyllä aukee ja kaikkeen pääsee, jos on hyviä ideoita ja yhteistyöhaluja" - nuorisotoimen suhde lasten ja nuorten hyvinvointia koskevaan ohjelmatyöhön kunnissa. Opinnäytetyö. Humanistinen ammattikorkeakoulu. Järjestö- ja nuorisotyön koulutusohjelma, ylempi AMK.

Suoranta, Kaisa (2011) Yhteistyötä ja ennaltaehkäisyä. Kuntien perusteet hyvinvointipoliittisille ohjelmille ja sosiaalityön tehtävät ohjelmissa. Sosiaalityön Pro gradu-tutkielma. Yhteiskuntatieteiden laitos, Itä-Suomen yliopisto.

Määttä, Mirja & Pia Tasanko (2012) Nuorisotyön tehtävä ohjelma(yhteis)kunnassa. Teoksessa: Katja Komonen, Leena Suurpää & Markus Söderlund (toim.) Kehittyvä nuorisotyö. Nuorisotutkimusseura ry., Helsinki.

Määttä, Mirja & Eriksson, Kai (2014). Network governance and programme steering: Rationales and tensions in planning child and youth policies. Social Policy & Administration. Volume 49, Issue 5, pages 631-648, September 2015. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/spol.12097/abstract

Määttä, Mirja & Eriksson, Kai (2014). The formation of child and youth policy in Finland. A case of the first development programme 2007-2011 [online]. Online publication in European Union and Council of Europe: Youth partnership, Youth policy in Finland. http://pjp-eu.coe.int/documents/1017981/7110686/Finland-child-youth-policy-formation-2007-11.pdf [cited 9.10.2015]

Määttä, Mirja (2016). Municipal welfare planning for children and youth. In T. Hoikkala (ed.), Finnish Youth Research Anthology 1999-2014, Helsinki: Finnish Youth Research Network, 321-331.

Määttä, Mirja (2018) Nuorisohallinnon tutkimus - esimerkkinä kuntien ja valtion ohjelmatyö. Teoksessa: Päivi Honkatukia & Tomi Kiilakoski (toim.) Miten tutkia nuoria ja nuorisotyötä. Vastapaino, 307-326.