Study title

Employment Survey of Tampere University Bachelor Graduates of 2013

Dataset ID Number

FSD3053

Persistent identifiers

https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3053
https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd3053

Data Type

Quantitative

Authors

• Honkanen, Johanna (University of Tampere. Career Services)
• Kurlin, Ari (University of Tampere. Career Services)
• Lammi, Kaisa (University of Tampere. Career Services)
• Ollikainen, Jyrki (University of Tampere. School of Information Sciences)

Abstract

The survey charted the employment situation and job placement of persons who had graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University of Tampere in 2013. The survey was divided into four different parts; education history, current employment status and employment history, factors affecting employment, and happiness with the employment situation and the degree programmes at the University of Tampere. The survey was sent to those graduates who had received 10 credits (ECTS) or less in the year following their graduation.

The first part of the survey studied the respondents' current education and their plans for education in the future. The second part of the survey charted the current employment and the employment history of the respondents. This included questions on the type and length of current employment and the type of employment the participants had had during their studies. The third part of the survey charted which factors had been the most important in obtaining their current job and which factors may have hindered or prevented them from finding a job. The respondents were also asked about the channels they used when looking for work.

In the fourth part of the survey, the respondents were asked about their happiness with their current employment situation, their view on how their job corresponded with their education, and what advantages having a bachelor's degree had given them in the labour market. The respondents were also asked about their satisfaction with the degree programmes at the University of Tampere. The survey also investigated their views on whether their education had provided them with useful skills and abilities (e.g. information seeking skills, social skills, language skills, skills related to the field of study) that were relevant in working life.

The background variables were the respondent's degree programme, faculty, field of study, gender, and time of starting studies.

Keywords

appointment to job; career development; educational certificates; employment opportunities; graduates; higher education institutions; labour and employment; labour force; tertiary education (first stage)

Topic Classification

• Social sciences (Fields of Science Classification)
• Higher and further education (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Employment (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Series

Employment Surveys of Tampere University Graduates

Distributor

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Access

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

Data Collector

• University of Tampere. Career Services

Time Period Covered

2013 – 2014

Collection Dates

2014

Nation

Finland

Geographical Coverage

Finland, Tampere

Analysis/Observation Unit Type

Individual

Universe

Persons who had graduated from the University of Tampere with a bachelor's degree in 2013 and had received 10 credits or less in the following year

Time Method

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Data Sources

Background variables were obtained from the student register of University of Tampere.

Sampling Procedure

Total universe/Complete enumeration

The survey was sent to all graduates who had graduated from the University of Tampere with a bachelor's degree in 2013 and had received 10 credits or less in the following year. 110 of them responded.

Collection Mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Paper

Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI)

Research Instrument

Structured questionnaire

Data File Language

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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

Variables for questions 2d and 3b were re-coded into dichotomous variables during archiving. To prevent identification, open-ended variables of the type "other, please specify" and open-ended responses with identifiers such as the respondent's job title were removed. The remaining open-ended responses, such as responses in variables regarding satisfaction in the university's educational provision, were anonymised so that the respondent or third parties are not identifiable, and the anonymised parts were marked with [square brackets]. Furthermore, the variable "feedback" was removed from the data. The background variable "year of starting studies" was categorised into two categories.

Weighting

There are no weight variables in the data.

Citation Requirement

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Bibliographical Citation

Honkanen, Johanna (University of Tampere) & Kurlin, Ari (University of Tampere) & Lammi, Kaisa (University of Tampere) & Ollikainen, Jyrki (University of Tampere): Employment Survey of Tampere University Bachelor Graduates of 2013 [dataset]. Version 2.0 (2018-02-06). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3053

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Disclaimer

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