Study title

Diaconia Barometer 2013

Dataset ID Number

FSD2941

Persistent identifiers

https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2941
https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd2941

Data Type

Quantitative

Authors

• Diakonian tutkimuksen seura
• Church Council. Diakonia ja yhteiskuntatyö
• Diakoniatyöntekijöiden Liitto

Other Identification/Acknowledgements

• Kiiski, Jouko (University of Eastern Finland)
• Aho, Marja (Diakonian tutkimuksen seura)
• Gävert, Titi (Church Council)
• Laine, Tiina (Diakoniatyöntekijöiden Liitto)
• Juntunen, Elina (Church Council)

Abstract

Diaconia Barometers chart the diaconal workers' views and experiences of their work. The survey examined the areas and emphases of diaconal work, diaconal cooperation, job satisfaction and and workload, and experiences of bullying at the workplace.

The respondents were asked the extent to which various areas of diaconia were part of the work in their parish (e.g. preventive social work, health promotion), to what extent they had diaconal cooperation with various actors and institutions, who was responsible for deciding the content/tasks in their work, whether their job had a clear job description, whether they had an annual discussion about their job description with their supervisor, and how many qualified applicants there usually were for open diaconal positions of the parish.

Experiences of bullying in the workplace were surveyed by asking whether bullying by colleagues, supervisors or customers occurred at the workplace and whether anyone had experienced violence or threat of violence at the workplace in the previous 12 months. Job satisfaction was charted with a number of statements. Workload was futher examined by asking how much different things increased the respondents' workload and how much various means of coping had helped them with the workload.

Background variables included the respondent's diocese, year of birth, gender, education, number of work years in diaconal work, number of inhabitants in the municipality, number of members in the parish, and whether the respondent worked in a supervisory position.

Keywords

church; church administration; employment; job satisfaction; occupational life; religious institutions; religious personnel; well-being (health); working conditions; workplace bullying

Topic Classification

• Social sciences (Fields of Science Classification)
• Humanities (Fields of Science Classification)
• Working conditions (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Religion and values (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Equality, inequality and social exclusion (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Series

Diaconia Barometers

Distributor

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Access

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

Data Collector

• Kiiski, Jouko (University of Eastern Finland)

Time Period Covered

2013

Collection Dates

2013-03-06 – 2013-03-22

Nation

Finland

Geographical Coverage

Finland

Analysis/Observation Unit Type

Individual

Universe

Diaconal workers of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland

Time Method

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Sampling Procedure

Total universe/Complete enumeration

The invitation to respond to the survey was sent to all diaconal personnel in the address register of the Unit for Diaconal Work and Pastoral Care of the Church Council. The survey was sent to 1,396 people out of whom 472 responded.

Collection Mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI)

Research Instrument

Structured questionnaire

Response Rate

34

Data File Language

Downloaded data package may contain different language versions of the same files.

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

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Data Version

2.0

Completeness of Data and Restrictions

For privacy reasons, ,ariables surveying the number of inhabitants in the municipality (q1_2), number of members in the parish (q1_3), and the respondent's year of birth (q1_7) and education (q1_9) were recoded during archiving. In addition, the variable containing information on the number diaconal workers in the parish (q1_4) and the open-ended questions q1_6, q1_10 and q1_14 were 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

Diakonian tutkimuksen seura & Church Council & Diakoniatyöntekijöiden Liitto: Diaconia Barometer 2013 [dataset]. Version 2.0 (2018-09-27). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2941

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 Materials

Kiiski, Jouko (2013). Diakoniatyöntekijä. Rinnallakulkija ja kaatopaikka. Diakoniabarometri 2013. Helsinki: Kirkon tutkimuskeskus. Kirkon tutkimuskeskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 33. http://sakasti.evl.fi/julkaisut.nsf/D0EEDB73195BF81BC2257BE10029E3DC/$FILE/verkkojulkaisu33.pdf [viitattu 19.12.2014].

Related Publications

Kiiski, Jouko (2013). Diakoniatyöntekijä. Rinnallakulkija ja kaatopaikka. Diakoniabarometri 2013. Helsinki: Kirkon tutkimuskeskus. Kirkon tutkimuskeskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 33. http://sakasti.evl.fi/julkaisut.nsf/D0EEDB73195BF81BC2257BE10029E3DC/$FILE/verkkojulkaisu33.pdf [viitattu 19.12.2014].

Kiiski, Jouko (2013). Diaconal Workers. Alongsiders or Dumpsters? Helsinki: Church Research Institute. Kirkon tutkimuskeskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 34. http://sakasti.evl.fi/julkaisut.nsf/E387E87652D0B96BC2257C8C00351296/$FILE/verkkojulkaisu34.pdf [viitattu 8.4.2015].

Kiiski, Jouko (2015). Diakoniatyöntekijöiden työssään kokema kuormitus. Diakonian tutkimus 1/2015, 7-31.

Malkavaara, Mikko & Ryökäs, Esko (2015). Diakonia-apu oikeutena. Suomalaisen ajattelutavan kehittyminen. Diakonian tutkimus 2/2015, 107-127.